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OAS platform Detail for Kapuskasing
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platforms_id: 938
Title: CGS/CNAV
Name: Kapuskasing
ICES Code: 18KP
Callsign:
Countries: CANADA
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel KAPUSKASING from CANADA.

Name : KAPUSKASING
Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
Title : CGS/CNAV
Platform Class : 31 Research vessel
Pennant : 171
Commissioned Date : 1949
Decommissioned Date : 1972
Current Length : 69
Built : 1944-08-17
Previous Name (Notes): HMCS KAPUSKASING
Notes : WOD Code 903. Former Algerine-class minesweeper recommissioned as hydrographic survey ship and loaned to the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1949 (then under the Department of Mines and Resources and/or Department of Mines and Technical Surveys shortly thereafter). Was returned to the Canadian Navy in 1972. Sunk as a navel target on 1978-10-03.


Additional Information Sources:
- http://www.canfoh.org/Intro&Hist/atlantic%20history.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Kapuskasing_(J326)
- http://www.readyayeready.com/ships/shipview.php?id=1195?ship=KAPUSKASING

General Comments:

Launch date 1943-07-22 for Kapuskasing

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/230938_1968.pdf. The CGS KAPUSKASING was assigned to us (Fisheries Research Biological Station, St Andrew) by the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, for a 2-week cruise in January for hydrographic and pelagic fish studies carried out between Halifax and St. Andrews.

Http://www2.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/review/2002/english/BIO_2002_in_Review.asp?n=11 The name was previously missing the final "G".
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Metadata version: 3
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2022-07-01 02:13:39+00