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<p>Dear Platform Group,
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<br />Additional information - including spelling correction - has come in for the vessel <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=6806' target='_blank'>KAPUSKASING</a> from CANADA.
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<br />Code : 18KP
<br />Name : <a href='http://admin.ices.dk/requests/Default.aspx?id=6806' target='_blank'>KAPUSKASING</a>
<br />Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
<br />Title : CGS/CNAV
<br />Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
<br />Pennant : 171
<br />Commissioned Date : 1949
<br />Decommissioned Date : 1972
<br />Current Length : 69
<br />Built : 1944-08-17
<br />Previous Name (Notes): HMCS KAPUSKASING
<br />Notes : WOD Code 903. Former Algerine-class minesweeper recommissioned as hydrographic survey ship and loaned to the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1949 (then under the Department of Mines and Resources and/or Department of Mines and Technical Surveys shortly thereafter). Was returned to the Canadian Navy in 1972. Sunk as a navel target on 1978-10-03.
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://www.canfoh.org/Intro&Hist/atlantic%20history.htm
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<br /> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Kapuskasing_(J326)
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<br /> - http://www.readyayeready.com/ships/shipview.php?id=1195?ship=KAPUSKASING
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />Launch date 1943-07-22 for Kapuskasing
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 16/02/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/230938_1968.pdf. The CGS KAPUSKASING was assigned to us (Fisheries Research Biological Station, St Andrew) by the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, for a 2-week cruise in January for hydrographic and pelagic fish studies carried out between Halifax and St. Andrews.
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<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 16/02/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Http://www2.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/review/2002/english/BIO_2002_in_Review.asp?n=11 The name was previously missing the final "G".
<br />(Mathieu Ouellet 12/02/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />The ICES Data Centre
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