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OAS platform Detail for Starella
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platforms_id: 5765
Title: RV
Name: Starella
ICES Code: 74AW
Callsign: GWUK
Countries: UNITED KINGDOM
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel STARELLA from UNITED KINGDOM.

Name : STARELLA
Flag : UNITED KINGDOM - GB (ISO Country Code)
Call Sign : GWUK
Title : RV
Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
IMO : 6422573
Commissioned Date : 1979
Decommissioned Date : 1989
Current Length : 73
Built : 1965
Previous Name (Notes): Subsea 2
Notes : Stern trawler converted into a survey vessel. Chartered for NERC research cruises and by the UK Met Office for Atlantic weather station duties when Admiral Fitzroy and Admiral Beaufort were retired. WOD no.5658 with data in 1981.

Additional Information Sources:
- http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1731333

General Comments:
According to Miramar, the ship was sold in 1989 to a Dutch company for scrap. The newer Starella is a smaller trawler built in 1970. Details can be seen here: http://www.fao.org/figis/vrmf/finder/search/#stats

Name history:
1965-1969 Genepesca IXO
1969-1977 San Simone Secondo
1977-1979 Subsea 2
1979-1989 Starella

Decommissioned date is uncertain. Reported scrapped in 1989 (information possibly from Lloyds), but there's a picture on the OWS web pages dated 2001.
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Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2022-07-05 01:35:07+00