RV Corella 2/73
Cruise summary report
| Cruise Info. | |
| Ship name (ship code) | RV Corella (74CX) |
| Cruise identifier | 2/73 |
| Cruise period | 1973-01-16 — 1973-01-24 |
| Status | Completed |
| Port of departure | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Port of return | Lowestoft, United Kingdom |
| Purpose | Research |
| Objectives | 1. To lay a moored current meter array in the outer estuary.
2. To survey the levels of bed radioactivity as a follow up to the release of labelled sludge made during CORELLA 11/1972. 3. To collaborate with RV TELLINA in a trial continuous release diffusion experiment including testing of the new towed fluorometer. 4. To make further measurements to determine the force due to wind and current on a parachute drogue dahn. |
| Chief scientist | John W Talbot (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory) |
| Cruise report |  (0.12 MB) |
| Ocean/sea areas | |
| General | North Sea |
| Measurements | |
| Physical oceanography | |
| Surface measurements underway (T,S) | Quantity: number of stations = 111 Description: S only |
| Water bottle stations | Quantity: number of stations = 53 |
| Current meters | Description: 11 Plessey planted in the Thames Estuary on Cr.2; retrieved on Cr.5 |
| Surface drifters/drifting buoys | Description: drogues |
| Chemical oceanography | |
| Phosphate | Quantity: number of samples = 80 |
| Silicate | Quantity: number of samples = 60 |
| Trace elements | Quantity: number of samples = 111 |
| Contamination | |
| Other contaminant measurements | Quantity: number of samples = 111 Description: chemical pollution |
| Biology and fisheries | |
| Dissolved organic matter (inc DOC) | Quantity: number of samples = 111 |
| Meteorology | |
| Occasional standard measurements | |
| Other meteorological measurements | Description: sea and swell |
| Geology and geophysics | |
| Dredge | Quantity: number of hauls = 35 |
