Operations Officer, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia via 

 any east coast Canadian Coast Guard Radio 

 Station. 



Communications Statistics for the period 1 

 September 1975 to 31 August 1976 are shown 

 below in Table 3. 



TABLE 3 — Communications Statistics 



Number of ice reports received from ships 312 



Number of ships furnishing ice reports — 87 

 Number of ice reports received from 



commercial aircraft 2 



Number of sea surface temperature reports 1,813 

 Number of ships furnishing sea surface 



temperature reports 47 



Number of ships requesting special ice 



information 3 



Number of NIK Ice Bulletins issued 253 



Number of NIK facsimile broadcasts 126 



Of the ships furnishing Ice Patrol with special 

 sea surface temperature observations, the eight 

 most outstanding contributors were : 



M/V BAKKAFOSS/TFXQ 



M/V ATLANTIC SPAN/SLPN (5th con- 

 secutive year) 



M/V ESKDALEGATE/GUIC 



M/V MONTROYAL/SFHN 



HMCS NIPIGON/CGZP 



M/V C P TRADER/GNAR 



M/V MANCHESTER CONCORDE/ 

 GYUX 



M/V BRUNSWICK/DGBI 



