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OAS platform Detail for Kapuskasing
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platforms_id: | 938 |
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Title: | CGS/CNAV |
Name: | Kapuskasing |
ICES Code: | 18KP |
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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 |