RRS Discovery D55
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RRS Discovery (74E3) |
| Cruise identifier | D55 |
| Cruise period | 1973-09-08 — 1973-10-19 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Barry, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | Geological reconnaissance with GLORIA and air-gun in the eastern Mediterranean. |
| Chief scientist | A H B Stride (Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Wormley Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.66 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | Strait of Gibraltar (Mediterranean Sea) |
| Specific | 35-53N;07-28W |
| Track charts | (0.14 MB) |
| Measurements | |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Core - soft bottom | Description: wide bore corer, to investigate the int.structure of large mud bodies in the Gulf of Cadiz |
