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OAS platform Detail for Erebus
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platforms_id: 9776
Title: HMS
Name: Erebus
ICES Code: 740Q
Callsign:
Countries: UNITED KINGDOM
Comments: Additional information from ICES for the vessel EREBUS from UNITED KINGDOM.

Code : 740Q
Name : EREBUS
Flag : UNITED KINGDOM - GB (ISO Country Code)
Title : HMS
Platform Class : 39 Naval vessel
Decommissioned Date : 1845
Current Length : 32
Built : 1826
Notes : Hecla-class bomb vessel refitted for working in the Antarctic and used for exploration in the Antarctic in the 1840s, captained by James Clark Ross. Her fate, along with HMS Terror was to become icebound and abandoned by her crew in the infamous Franklin expedition in 1845 under the command of Sir John Franklin.

Additional Information Sources:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Erebus_(1826)
Deprecated: false
Metadata version: 5
Keydate: 2003-03-25 00:00:00+00
Editdate: 2022-07-05 00:40:24+00