RV Corella 3/72
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 3/72 |
| Cruise period | 1972-02-12 — 1972-02-14 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Trials |
| Objectives | 1. To test the new buoy recovery system on CORELLA.
2. To lay a number of recording current meters in the Thames Estuary and off the Suffolk coast. |
| Chief scientist | John W Talbot (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.09 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Current meters | Description: 2 days |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 700 Description: bottom |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Quantity: number of deployments = 10 Description: drogues |
| Sea level (inc. bot. press., inverted echosounder) | Quantity: number of deployments = 1 |
