The percentage distribution of reporting vessels by nationality was 

 as follows: 



United Kingdom 23.4 Finland 1.0 



United States of America 22.4 Belgium 0.9 



Federal Republic of Germany. _ 10.8 Ireland 0.9 



The Netherlands 8.5 Poland 0.9 



Norway 5.0 Portugal 0.9 



Sweden 5.0 .Japan 0.7 



France 3.1 Iceland 0.5 



Denmark 2.2 Panama 0.5 



Liberia 2.2 India 0.3 



Greece 1.9 Czechoslovakia 0.2 



Italy 1.7 Lebanon 0.2 



Union of Soviet Socialist Re- Switzerland 0.2 



publics 1.7 Turkey 0.2 



Yugoslavia 1.6 United Arab Republic 0.2 



Israel 1.4 



Canada 1.0 Total 100.0 



Throughout the year requests were received from shipping for ice 

 conditions in the steamer tracks. As the International Ice Patrol 

 staff remained at Argentia tliroughout 1965, tliese requests were hon- 

 ored. The ice information contained in the answers were based on 

 monthly aerial ice reconnaissance flights performed by the Coast 

 Guard Air Station at Argentia and from sparse information received 

 from other sources. Due to the very small distribution of bergs south 

 of Hudson Straits, assumptions that bergs did not penetrate the 

 steamer tracks could be made with good assurance. One berg entered 

 track G on i December 1965 near latitude 52°30' N., longitude 51°15' 

 W. and drifted easterly with the wind conditions. This berg drifted 

 from the coastal Labrador waters southeastward under the effect of 

 the ocean currents and the nortliwesterly winds that prevailed for the 

 latter part of November and the first few days of December. 



Thirty-three ice requests were received and answered from ships 

 representing Italy, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States 

 of America, and the Soviet Union from 1 January 1965 until the Ice 

 Patrol radio broadcasts were initiated on 1 March. During the period 

 from the termination of the Ice Patrol services on 6 June until 13 De- 

 cember 1965, 236 ice requests were received. The distribution of ice 

 requests by reporting vessels by nationality was as follows : 



