[Platforms] G.O.Sars

[Strand Øyvin]

Recoding of old established ship codes may cause a lot of confusion, 
and must be avoided if possible. The 58GT code should therefore be
restricted to the period when the ships name was actually "Sarsen"
(February 10, 2003 -> end of 2003 (removed from ordinary service
10/2003, sold abroad 12/2003)). The new G.O.Sars was registered 04/2003,
and started ordinary services in June 2003, so no overlap exists.

Like many other countries, the names of norwegian research wessels are
frequently reused, and some historic codes cover many ships. 
The vessel in qustion, LLZG G.O.Sars/Sarsen, was not the original one,
but replaced the original ship in 1970. However, with a few exceptions,
outdated RVs have not had a second life in the service of the science.

When the change G.O.Sars -> Sarsen was reported in 2003, we proposed
unchanged code for the old ship, and a different code for the new one.
However, the "codes follow the name" rule was strictly adhered to.
In the future, we strongly support a change from "follow the name" to
"follow the hull".


Best regards

Øyvin Strand
Norsk Marint Datasenter/Norwegian Marine Data Centre
Havforskningsinstituttet/Institute of Marine Research
Postboks/PO Box 1870 Nordnes
N-5817 BERGEN
Tel.: +47 55 23 84 62
       +47 55 23 85 00 (sentral/switchboard)

Email : oyvin.strand at imr.no (personlig/personal)
           nmd at imr.no, nod at imr.no (->NMD)

HI/IMR : http://www.imr.no/   post at imr.no


 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: platforms-bounces at biwebs1.nerc-liv.ac.uk 
> [mailto:platforms-bounces at biwebs1.nerc-liv.ac.uk] On Behalf 
> Of Roy Lowry
> Sent: 04 April 2007 13:29
> To: platforms at biwebs1-2.nerc-liv.ac.uk
> Subject: [Platforms] G.O.Sars
> 
> Hi Marilynn,
> 
> We have what is becoming a very familiar situation for G.O. 
> Sars. The original G.O. Sars was assigned code 58GS.This hull 
> was renamed Sarsen in 2002 and given the code 58GT.  The new 
> G.O. Sars then 'inherited' the code of 58GS.  This is exactly 
> what happened with Tridens/Tridens I, which as far as I can 
> see in Version 1.13 of the RECO codes we haven't resolved. I 
> also can't remember seeing a new code as requested by Michele 
> for BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE.
> 
> Unless our Norwegian list members object I suggest we follow 
> the same practice for G.O. Sars as we did for Tridens and 
> Pourquoi pas? (but not Meteor) and leave 58GS with the new 
> ship and assign a new code for the old one: whatever we do, 
> we're still going to have to fix our data to some extent.  
> So, could you please:
> 
> 1) Assign new codes for the "old" G.O. SARS, 
> BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE and TRIDENS
> 
> 2) Follow Mitch and allocate 64T1 to TRIDENS I
> 
> If you need XML for any of these ask Fran.
> 
> Cheers, Roy.
> 
> 
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