late June. Ships obtained ice information by 

 contacting the Ice Operations Officer, Sydney, 

 Nova Scotia via Sydney Marine Radio/VCO or 

 Halifax Marine Radio/VCS. 



Communications statistics for the period 1 

 September 1974 through 31 August 1975 are 

 shown in Table 2. 



Of the fifty-seven ships furnishing Ice Patrol 

 with sea surface temperature information the 

 eleven most outstanding contributors were: 



USCGC SHERMAN/NMMJ 



M/V ATLANTIC SPAN/SLPN 



M/V HURON/CGXY 



M/V LONDON TRADITION/MXYC 



M/V STADT BREMEN/DECP 



M/V MINERAL SERAING/ONMO 



M/V STADT WOLFSBURG/DCWE 



M/V LONDON PRIDE/GOSH 



USNS NEPTUNE/NGUB 



M/V AMSTEL HOF/PCPL 



M/V NORSE FALCON/GUMW 



Table 3— Estimated Number of Icebergs South of Latitude 48 N, Season 1975 



SEPT OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG TOTAL 



1975 



TOTAL 



1946-1975 



AVERAGE 



1946-1975 



TOTAL 



1900-1975 



AVERAGE 



1900-1975 



1 24 41 10 20 5 101 



10 2 4 11 64 261 1035 2926 2830 1716 480 100 9,439 



2 9 35 98 94 57 16 3 315 



256 109 110 91 184 712 3137 7771 9913 5234 1676 489 29,682 



3 1 1 1 2 9 41 102 130 69 22 6 391 



