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OAS platform Detail for Westwind, meta_version: 3. Current meta_version is: 4
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platforms_id: 2184
Title:
Name: WESTWIND
ICES Code: 31WE
Callsign: NLKL
Countries: UNITED STATES
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel WESTWIND from UNITED STATES.

Code : 31WE
Name : WESTWIND
Flag : UNITED STATES - US (ISO Country Code)
Call Sign : NLKL
Title : USCGC
Platform Class : 39 Naval vessel
Pennant : WAGB-281
Commissioned Date : 1952-09-22
Decommissioned Date : 1988-02-29
Current Length : 82
Built : 1943
Previous Name (Notes): SEVERNY POLYUS
Notes : WOD 2146 with data at WOD from 1951-1988 and ICES 1969. US Coast Guard icebreaker from 1943 which was named the Severny Polyus from 1945-1951.

Additional Information Sources:
- http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Westwind1944.pdf
- http://content.mpl.org/cdm/search/collection/MilwWaterwa/searchterm/SEVERNY%20POLYUS/mode/ex
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Westwind_(WAGB-281)

General Comments:
31WE Westwind in C.M.1974/C: 41,Hydrography Committee so active in 1974.

Was returned to US 1951-12-19.

WOD 2146 states data from 5/7/1951. This is incorrectly associated with the Westwind because that is before the Westwind's commissioned date.
Deprecated: false
Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2014-09-17 15:46:03+00