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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://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=10682' target='_blank'>SPRINGHILL</a> from CANADA. This code suggestion will need confirmation by NOAA.
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<br /><b>Original Requester : Mathieu Ouellet (Mathieu.Ouellet@dfo-mpo.gc.ca)</b>
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<br />Proposed Code : 18DQ
<br />Name : <a href='http://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=10682' target='_blank'>SPRINGHILL</a>
<br />Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
<br />Title : HMCS
<br />Platform Class : 39 Naval vessel
<br />Pennant : K323
<br />Commissioned Date : 1944-21-03
<br />Decommissioned Date : 1945-12-01
<br />Current Length : 91.9
<br />Built : 1944-21-03
<br />Notes : WOD code 8435. River Class Frigate. Arrived in Halifax on May 12 1944, left for 3 weeks in Bermuda. In August 1944 joined the Halifax local escort group 16 as Senior Officer's ship, was equipped with a bathythermograph. Left on March 7 1945 for Londonberry UK. Returned to Canada in April 1945 for refit at Pictou NS where she stayed until October. Paid off in Halifax and laid up in reserve in Bedford Basin until being broken up in 1947. Laid down 1943-05-05, launched 1943-09-07.
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - MacPherson and Burgess, The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910-1993. 1993. ISBN 0-92077-91-8
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<br /> - http://www.journalofoceantechnology.com/?page_id=73&id=30&jot_download_article=177&jot_download_article=177
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<br /> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Springhill_(K323)
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<br />No comments have been made about this Platform Code yet.
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<br />The ICES Data Centre
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