[Platforms] Thetis - request for information

[Roy Lowry]

Dear All,

The name 'Thetis' is very common for ships.  At the moment we have four in the list (one Swedish, one German, one Danish and a US coastguard cutter) plus the POSSIBILITY of a fifth Italian vessel, with very little metadata currently in the system, which is an ideal recipe for confusion!.  

So far, I have ascertained the following:

The Swedish 'Thetis' (77TH) has delivered over 70 CSRs reporting the callsign 'SEPM'.  Jan, can you provide any more information about her?

There are two Italian CSRs from a ship called Thetis, reporting the callsign 'DRHA'.  Now this is a German callsign, which makes me suspect that the ship used might well have been the German Thetis (062Z).  The cruises with project names PRISMA-1 from May 1995 to March 1996 (long cruise!) and PRISMA-2 from May to June 1998 had OGS involvment (M Gacic).  Alessandra, can you confirm she was the German ship?  Anyone else have any information about the German Thetis?

Anybody know anything about the Danish Thetis?

Waiting in the wings is another Thetis (Italian this time) with callsign IJQS around from 1986 until she was sunk in an accident in August this year reported in Lloyds as a Research/Supply ship.  Anyone know if she has any relevance to oceanographic data or can we ignore her?

Cheers, Roy.