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OAS platform Detail for Summerside
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platforms_id: 9661
Title: HMCS
Name: Summerside
ICES Code: 181S
Callsign: CGJJ
Countries: CANADA
Comments: Updated information from ICES for the vessel Summerside from CANADA. T

Name : Summerside
Flag : CANADA - CA (ISO Country Code)
Call Sign : CGJJ
Title : HMCS
Platform Class : 39 Naval vessel
Pennant : 711
Commissioned Date : 1999-07-18
Current Length : 55.3
Built : 1998-09-25
Notes : WOD 8617. Also known as MM 711. Built as a mechanical minesweeper for the Canadian Navy who is using it as a coastal defense vessel and occasionally to support fisheries patrol operations by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), during which oceanographic data are seldom collected. Not to be confused with the HMCS Summerside (K141) from 1940-1945. Summerside is also the name of a Canadian Forces Base.

Additional Information Sources:
- http://www.navy.forces.gc.ca/summerside/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Summerside_(MM_711)

General Comments:
We and NOAA have been using 181S for this ship
(not the same as 181A)
Deprecated: false
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2022-07-01 01:09:18+00