RRS Discovery D17
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D17 |
| Cruise period | 1967-06-03 — 1967-07-08 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Plymouth, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. Trials of Pop-up buoy systems
2. Current and hydrographic observations in Faeroe Bank Channel 3. Measurements of directional wave spectra using cloverleaf buoy 4. Stability and acoustic tests of model GLORIA |
| Chief scientist | James Crease (National Institute of Oceanography) |
| Cruise report |  (0.32 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North East Atlantic Ocean (limit 40W) |
| Specific | N.E. Atlantic |
| Track charts | (0.02 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Meteorology | |
| Incident radiation | |
| Routine standard measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Single-beam echosounding | Description: Precision echo sounder survey. |
