Technical report 112
A Catalogue of Defra Historical Research Vessel Data
This Technical Report describes the information that is now available in the RV data archive at Cefas Lowestoft, the type of information that was discovered, and the methods that were used to summarise the data from the archive. There is also a brief description of the Microsoft Excel 'Historic RV Database' that was created from this archive. The Database is a catalogue of information that is held in the archive, and does not contain raw data collected during any of the surveys. The final section describes how this database can be used to retrieve specific datasets, and provides examples of potentially valuable time-series data are now available for further analysis. The Database may be downloaded below. Also available for download is a PDF file containing images of some of the research vessels included in the catalogue:
