Merchant ships worked traffic with NIK on 425, 454, 408 or 480 kcs. 

 or (heir assigned 8 mc. hand. NIK transmitted working traffic on 432 or 

 8650 kcs. 



The Ice Patrol vessel played a valuable role as a secondary communi- 

 cations unit. Using the time honored lee Patrol cutter call sign NIDK, 

 the patrol vessel relayed messages and assisted during periods of peak 

 radio traffic. 



The International Ice Patrol communication center at Argentia oper- 

 ated a branch circuit of the U.S. Naval Teletype System. By this landline 

 the ice bulletins were rapidly transmitted to the following agencies: 



United States Navy Hydrographic Office, Washington, D.C. 

 Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard, Washington, D.C. 

 Commander, Eastern Area, U.S. Coast Guard, New York 

 Commander, First Coast Guard District, Boston, Mass. 

 Canadian Department of Transport Ice Central, Halifax, N.S. 

 Royal Canadian Navy Radio Station, Albro Lake, N.S. 

 Canadian Naval Commander, Newfoundland Area, St. John's 

 Canadian Department of Transport, Marine Services, Ottawa 

 U.S. Military Sea Transportation Service Office, St. Johns 

 U.S. Naval Fleet Weather Facilities at: 



Argentia 



Norfolk, \'a. 



Suitland, Md. 



During the 1959 season Ice Patrol communications facilities worked a 

 total of 19,457 radio and 33,039 landline messages. This volume of traffic 

 is 20 percent higher than for any previous year in Ice Patrol records. 

 The statistics concerning ship reports are given by the following table: 



Number of ice messages received from vessels 2, 152 



Number of vessels furnishing ice reports 329 



Number of sea surface temperatures reported 12 <> ( .)7 



Number of vessels furnishing sea surface temperatures. _ 676 



Number of requests for special ice information 20(1 



Total number of vessels worked (not including relays i 786 



The percentage distribution of reporting vessels by nationality was as 

 follows: 



10 



