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<p>Dear Platform Group,
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<br />To align with NOAA, ICES has added the code for the vessel <a href='https://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=33623' target='_blank'>BELGICA</a> from BE: BELGIUM.
<br />Please note the additional information.
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<br />Proposed Code : 11BG
<br />Name : <a href='https://vocab.ices.dk/Request/Default.aspx?id=33623' target='_blank'>BELGICA</a>
<br />Country(s) : BE: BELGIUM (ISO Country Code)
<br />Platform Class : 31: Research vessel
<br />Commissioned Date : 1896
<br />Decommissioned Date : 1916
<br />Current Length : 36
<br />Built : 1884
<br />Previous Name (Notes): Patria
<br />WOD Code: 8679
<br />Notes : Barque-rigged steamship built as a whaler, conv. to RV.
<br />Expeditions to Antarctica and Arctica. Built as Patria (NO), became Belgica in 1896 (BE), became freighter Isfjord (NO) in 1916, became Belgica (NO) in 1918, sank in 1940.
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<br /><b> Information Sources:</b>
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<br /> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RV_Belgica_(1884)
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<br /> - https://web.archive.org/web/20110724183311/http://www.rundtomdrammen.no/html/belgica.html
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<br /> - https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/antarctic_whos_who_belgica.php
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<br /><b>General Comments:</b>
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<br />Information for Patria/Belgica partially found in Miramar
<br />(Anna Osypchuk 18/12/2019 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />This ship was an RV only between 1896-1916
<br />(Anna Osypchuk 18/12/2019 00:00:00)<br />
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<br />The ICES Data Centre
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