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OAS platform Detail for Acadia
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platforms_id: 819
Title: CSS
Name: Acadia
ICES Code: 18AI
Callsign: CGCB
Countries: CANADA
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the platform ACADIA from CANADA.

NOTE:
Use 18DQ for data collected from 1913 to 1917 by the Canada platform ACADIA, no call sign.
Use 18DU for data collected from 1919 to 1939 by the Canada platform ACADIA, call sign CGFS.
Use 18AI for data collected from 1945 to 1969-11-28 by the Canada platform ACADIA, call sign CGCB.

Code : 18AI
Name : ACADIA
Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
Call Sign : CGCB
Title : CSS
Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
Commissioned Date : 1945
Decommissioned Date : 1969-11-28
Current Length : 55.4
Built : 1913-05-08
Notes : WOD 787. Reacquired by the Canadian Hydrographic Service after WWII. Contributed to expanding the nautical charts of Newfoundland and Labrador after 1949. Participated in military survey missions for the Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, and United States Navy. Charted almost every region of Atlantic Canada as well as much of the Eastern Arctic.

Additional Information Sources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_Acadia
- http://jproc.ca/rrp/appendg_ab.html
- http://www.coastalradio.org.uk/spud/spud/spud11.pdf

Same Vessels Info:
18DU - ACADIA
18DQ - ACADIA

General Comments:
Title CSS stands for Canadian Survey Ship

18AI has been on ship code list since at least 1991.

http://jproc.ca/rrp/appendg_ab.html gives
1) Acadia's service: 1917 to 1919 - Auxiliary Patrol Vessel, call sign VDT. 1919 to 1939 - Research Vessel - Department of Fisheries. Call sign changed to CGFS in 1923 1939 to 1945 - Training Vessel. Call sign was CGFS during WWII. 1945 to 1975 - Call sign CGCB as Oceanographic Research Vessel 1975 to present - As a maritime museum, Halifax N.S.

This ship has been commissioned 5 times (1913, 1917, 1919, 1939, 1945). WOD has data from periods 1, 3, 5 and some data seemingly from after the ship's life (1969). These attributes correspond to the fifth (last) period (1945-1969).
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Metadata version: 4
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2019-02-11 16:10:40+00