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OAS platform Detail for Cedarwood
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platforms_id: 854
Title: HMCS
Name: Cedarwood
ICES Code: 18CE
Callsign:
Countries: CANADA
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel CEDARWOOD from CANADA.

Name : CEDARWOOD
Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
Title : HMCS
Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
Pennant : AGSC 539
Commissioned Date : 1948-09-22
Decommissioned Date : 1958-07-09
Current Length : 51
Built : 1941
Previous Name (Notes): General Schmidlin (RCASC)
Notes : WOD 822. Wooden sailing ship, built in Lunenburg, NS, and sold in 1943 to the Royal Canadian Army Service Corp where she was recommissioned as "General Schmidlin" and used in the harbours of Canada's East Coast. Was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy, and in 1948, converted to an oceanographic vessel, recommissioned as the Cedarwood, and moved to Canada's West Coast (Esquimalt, BC) as requested by the Pacific Oceanography Group (Fisheries Research Board).

Additional Information Sources:
- http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Cedarwood%20(H.M.C.S.)&id=3016&Page=1&input=cedarwood
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Cedarwood_(AGSC_539)

General Comments:
Incorrect info for Cedarwood's previous name. http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=General%20Schmidlin%20(R.C.A.S.C.)&id=106 57&Page=4&input=general

Campbell, I. 2012. Making a Difference in Arctic Naval Research: HMCS Cedarwood, 1948 to 1956. Canadian Naval Review, Spring 2012. (article; http://www.navalreview.ca/wp-content/uploads/public/vol8num1/vol8num1art3.pdf )
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Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2022-07-01 01:33:21+00