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<p>Dear Platform Group,
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<br />A request has come in for a new code for the vessel <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=9416' target='_blank'>Aktyubinsk</a> from USSR. This code suggestion will need confirmation by NOAA. Note that the previously suggested code/country/dates for this vessel were rejected.
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<br /><b>Original Requester : Brenda Robinson (Donald.Collins@noaa.gov)</b>
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<br />Proposed Code : 90MW
<br />Name : <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=9416' target='_blank'>Aktyubinsk</a>
<br />Flag : USSR - SUHH (ISO Country Code)
<br />Call Sign : UFRQ
<br />Platform Class : 36 Fishing vessel
<br />Commissioned Date : 1954
<br />Decommissioned Date : 1990
<br />Current Length : 40.53
<br />Built : 1954
<br />Notes : Belek type seal hunting vessel (project 220). Home port Murmansk. Decommissioned date uncertain
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://soviet-trawler.narod.ru/pages/ussr/list_of_220.html
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<br /> - http://soviet-trawler.narod.ru/main_en/list12sov.html
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />Based on the following comments from Alexandra Grodsky, I am changing the flag designation for this platform to Soviet Union.
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<br />There existed two ships with the same name Aktyubinsk.
<br />"Aktyubinsk" 'Belek' type seal hunting vessel (project 220), UFRQ, home port Murmansk, built 1954.
<br />"Aktyubinsk" type Refrigerated Cargo Vessel (project 569), UUEB, 1956-08/1984, home port Kaliningrad, IMO 5007467
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<br />I linked the Kara Sea data to the first ship based on home port location (Murmansk). Kaliningrad (Baltic Sea) is distant from the Kara Sea. It was a usual practice to use fishing vessels from nearby ports for Arctic research.
<br />(Don Collins 17/09/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Data attributed to this platform at USNODC are from 1950s.
<br />(Don Collins 17/09/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />The data at NODC are from March-October 1956, so this would have been a USSR flag vessel, not a Russian Federation flag vessel. It may have been recommissioned in 1990, but we do not have any source to substantiate that.
<br />(Don Collins 12/06/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Not to be confused with http://soviet-trawler.narod.ru/pages/ussr/list_of_aktyubinsk.html with call sign UUEB. IMO 5007467. Pennant КТ-0201. Built 1956.
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 25/04/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Length from http://soviet-trawler.narod.ru/main_en/list12sov.html
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 25/04/2013 00:00:00)<br />
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