MV Whitethorn 73/WH/01
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | MV Whitethorn (74WT) |
| Cruise identifier | 73/WH/01 |
| Cruise period | 1973-02-27 — 1973-04-04 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Newcastle, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Greenock, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | The primary objective was to complete the remaining borehole sites in the Firth of Clyde and to attempt to drill on new positions in the Malin Sea. Standby work involved standard sampling in the Malin Sea and additional geophysical traversing.
This was the first cruise of the 1973 field season and was run in three legs, commencing from the Tyne and terminating in the Clyde and Malin Sea area. During the first and the third legs weather conditions were very poor but an amelioration during the second leg permitted five borehole sites to be occupied. |
| Chief scientist | C E Deegan (Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh) |
| Cruise report |  (3.65 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland |
| Measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Grab | Quantity: number of stations = 94 Description: shipek grab |
| Core - rock | Quantity: number of stations = 5 Description: borehole drilling |
| Core - soft bottom | Quantity: number of stations = 144 Description: 143 gravity cores plus 1 vibracore for physical/chemical analysis of sediments |
| Single-beam echosounding | Quantity: track kilometres = 800 |
| Single channel seismic reflection | Quantity: track kilometres = 800 |
