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<p>Dear Platform Group,
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<br />Additional information has come in for the vessel <a href='http://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=1959' target='_blank'>WESTWIND</a> from UNITED STATES.
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<br />Code : 31WE
<br />Name : <a href='http://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=1959' target='_blank'>WESTWIND</a>
<br />Flag : UNITED STATES - US (ISO Country Code)
<br />Call Sign : NLKL
<br />Title : USCGC
<br />Platform Class : 39 Naval vessel
<br />Pennant : WAGB-281
<br />Commissioned Date : 1952-09-22
<br />Decommissioned Date : 1988-02-29
<br />Current Length : 82
<br />Built : 1943
<br />Previous Name (Notes): SEVERNY POLYUS
<br />Notes : WOD 2146 with data at WOD from 1951-1988 and ICES 1969. US Coast Guard icebreaker from 1943 which was named the Severny Polyus from 1945-1951.
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Westwind1944.pdf
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<br /> - http://content.mpl.org/cdm/search/collection/MilwWaterwa/searchterm/SEVERNY%20POLYUS/mode/ex
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<br /> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Westwind_(WAGB-281)
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />31WE Westwind in C.M.1974/C: 41,Hydrography Committee so active in 1974.
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 18/06/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Was returned to US 1951-12-19.
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 18/06/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />WOD 2146 states data from 5/7/1951. This is incorrectly associated with the Westwind because that is before the Westwind's commissioned date.
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 18/06/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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