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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=10677' target='_blank'>ACADIA</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 : 18DU
<br />Name : <a href='http://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=10677' target='_blank'>ACADIA</a>
<br />Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
<br />Call Sign : CGFS
<br />Title : CCS
<br />Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
<br />Commissioned Date : 1919
<br />Decommissioned Date : 1939
<br />Current Length : 55.4
<br />Built : 1913
<br />Previous Name (Notes): ACADIA
<br />Notes : WOD 787. Re-acquired by the Hydrographic Survey of Canada after serving in WWI. Performed hydrographic surveys among others to establish the port of Churchill, Manitoba. Operations suspended in 1914-1925. Recommissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1939.
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<br /><b>Additional Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Acadia
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<br /> - http://jproc.ca/rrp/appendg_ab.html
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<br /> - http://www.coastalradio.org.uk/spud/spud/spud11.pdf
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<br /><b>Same Vessels Info:</b>
<br /><b>18AI</b> - ACADIA
<br /><b>18DQ</b> - ACADIA
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />1) Acadia's service:
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<br />1917 to 1919 - Auxiliary Patrol Vessel, call sign VDT.
<br />1919 to 1939 - Research Vessel - Department of Fisheries. Call sign changed to CGFS in 1923
<br />1939 to 1945 - Training Vessel. Call sign was CGFS during WWII.
<br />1945 to 1975 - Call sign CGCB as Oceanographic Research Vessel
<br />1975 to present - As a maritime museum, Halifax N.S..
<br />(Marilynn Sorensen 22/07/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />This ship has been commissioned 5 times (1913, 1917, 1919, 1939, 1945). WOD has data from periods 1, 3, 5 and some data seemingly from after the ship's life (1969). These attributes correspond to the third period (1919--1939).
<br />(Mathieu Ouellet 14/07/2014 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />Kind regards,
<br />The ICES Data Centre
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<br />International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
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