[Platforms] Hesperides callsign

[Roy Lowry]

Dear All,

The callsign for BIO Hesperides in the ICES list is EDPQ.  However, there are frequent and authoritative references to her having the callsign EBBW.  I have also come across associations of EDQP with a ship called Carmela B.   The number of references Googled for each callsign is about equal, but the EDPQ references can be tracked down to a common source - the ICES list.  All dated references to EDPQ I can find are after 1991 when the current Hesperides hull came into service.

This means that either the callsign in the ICES list is wrong or something happened in the past that I don't know about.  Unless anybody can come up with additional information (I've copied this e-mail to Maria Jesus Garcia at IEO to see if she knows anything) I suggest we change to EBBW.

Cheers, Roy.