The Extended Ellett Line

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Inventory of Ellett Line and Extended Ellett Line Cruises

The table below lists all the cruises that occupied the Ellett line (to 1996) and the Extended Ellett Line (1996 onwards). Data from these cruises can be viewed under the Atlas of cruise sections.

Each cruise number in this table also provides a link to the BODC webpage that lists cruise details, track plots and cruise report.

Cruise	Section (Data) Dates	Cruise Dates	Chief Scientist	Institute	Ship
C375	5-Mar-75	4-13 March 1975	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C775	3-5 May 1975	1-6 May 1975	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1075	4-7 July 1975	4-10 July 1975	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1275	31-Aug-75	26 Aug - 2 Sep 1975	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1475	8-11 Nov 1975	7-12 Nov 1975	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C5a76	1-2 Apr 1976	29 Mar - 5 Apr 1976	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C876	20-23 May 1976	19 May - 1 Jun 1976	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1276	6-8 Aug 1976	4-15 Aug 1976	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1576	8-10 Oct 1976	7-16 Oct 1976	R. Bowers	SMBA	Challenger
C1776	11-13 Dec 1976	7-20 Dec 1976	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C477	6-7 Mar 1977	25 Feb - 11 Mar 1977	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C677	14-16 Apr 1977	14-19 Apr 1977	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1177	23-25 Jul 1977	12-26 Jul 1977	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1377	21-23 Aug 1977	20 Aug - 3 Sep 1977	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C278	2-7 Feb 1978	30 Jan - 13 Feb 1978	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C678	15-20 Apr 1978	11-21 Apr 1978	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C978	5-8 Jun 1978	31 May - 10 Jun 1978	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C11B78	9-11 Aug 1978	29 Jul - 12 Aug 1978	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C11D78	11-12 Sep 1978	3 - 17 Sep 1978	A. Edwards	SMBA	Challenger
C1478	6-8 Nov 1978	4-11 Nov 1978	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C779	20-21 May 1979	10-23 May 1979	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
S579	27-28 Jun 1979	19 Jun - 2 Jul 1979	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Shackleton
C1379	13-15 Sep 1979	11-16 Sep 1979	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1679	29-30 Oct 1979	28 Oct - 11 Nov 1979	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C480	1-4 Mar 1980	26 Feb - 07 Mar 1980	D. Meldrum and J. Gage	SMBA	Challenger
C780	3-5 May 1980	21 Apr - 6 May 1980	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C281	29-31 Jan 1981	26 Jan - 04 Feb 1981	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C681	13-21 Apr 1981	6 -25 Apr 1981	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1081	12-Jul-81	04-14 July 1981	D. Meldrum	SMBA	Challenger
C1581	14-17 Oct 1981	06-20 Oct 1981	A. Edwards	SMBA	Challenger
C782	26 Apr-9 May 82	26 Apr - 16 May	R. Bowers	SMBA	Challenger
C1582	23-Oct-82	16-30 Oct 1982	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C783	24-26 May 1983	23 May - 02 Jun 1983	R. Bowers	SMBA	Challenger
C1183	16-19 Aug 1983	10-24 Aug 1983	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C284	27-29 Jun 1984	23 Jun - 08 Jul 1984	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C1084	20 Nov-2 Dec 1984	16 Nov - 6 Dec 1984	A. Edwards	SMBA	Challenger
C185	25-26 Jan 1985	20 Jan - 05 Feb 1985	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C485	8-10 May 1985	02 - 16 May 1985	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C885	19-22 Aug 1985	14 - 28 Aug 1985	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C987	10-11 Jan 1987	08-22 Jan 1987	A. Edwards	SMBA	Challenger
C1487	28-30 Apr 1987	24 Apr - 07 May 1987	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C2287	27-28 Nov 1987	23 Nov - 05 Dec 1987	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C2588	5-6 Mar 1988	24 Feb - 07 Mar 1988	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
C3088	19-20 Jun 1988	06-23 Jun 1988	D.J. Ellett	SMBA	Challenger
D18089	24-26 Jan 1989	20 Jan - 04 Feb 1989	D.J. Ellett	DML	Discovery
LF189	6-7 May 1989	05-11 May 1989	D.J. Ellett	DML	Lough Foyle
LF289	5-6 Aug 1989	4 - 10 Aug	D.J. Ellett	DML	Lough Foyle
CD4489	25-27 Nov 1989	24 Nov - 02 Dec	A. Edwards	DML	Charles Darwin
C6790	26-28 Jun 1990	21 Jun - 29 July 1990	D.J. Ellett	DML	Challenger
C7190	1-2 Sep 1990	29 Aug - 05 Sep 1990	D.J. Ellett and J. Gordon	DML	Challenger
C7591	25-28 Feb 1991	23 Feb - 03 Mar 1991	J. Gordon and D.J. Ellett	DML	Challenger
C8191	2-4 Jul 1991	1-8 July 1991	D.J. Ellett	DML	Challenger
C9792	26-28 Sep 1992	25 Sep - 06 Oct 1992	A. Edwards	DML	Challenger
C10193	14-15 Mar 1993	13 - 20 Mar 1993	A. Edwards	DML	Challenger
C10393	14-17 May 1993	12 - 24 May 1993	D.J. Ellett	DML	Challenger
C10593	5-11 Sep 1993	03 - 16 Sep 1993	A. Edwards	DML	Challenger
C11094	15-19 Mar 1994	10 - 20 Mar 1994	D.J. Ellett	DML	Challenger
C11294	2-8 May 1994	28 Apr - 13 May 1994	D.J. Ellett	DML	Challenger
C11494	16-19 Aug 1994	15 - 29 Aug 1994	J. Graham	DML	Challenger
C11694	24-25 Nov 1994	17 - 29 Aug 1994	C. Griffiths	DML	Challenger
CD9295	15-30 Apr 1995	13 Apr - 02 May 1995	A. Edwards	DML	Charles Darwin
C12095	30-31 Jul 1995	18 Jul - 6 Aug 1995	A. Edwards	DML	Challenger
C12496	21 - 25 Jan 1996	08 - 27 Jan 1996	A. Edwards	DML	Challenger
DI22396	30 Sep - 3 Oct 1996	28 Sept - 21 Oct 1996	H. Leach and R. Pollard	Univ. Liverpool and SOC	Discovery
DI23097	13-14 Sep 1997	7 Aug - 17 Sep 1997	S. Bacon	SOC	Discovery
DI23398	25-27 May 1998	2 Apr - 1 Jun 1998	D. Smythe-Wright	SOC	Discovery
DI24299	10-14 Sep 1999	7 Sep - 06 Oct 1999	S. Cunningham	SOC	Discovery
DI24500*	2-15 Feb 2000	27 Jan - 20 Feb 2000	N.P. Holliday and C. Griffiths	SOC and DML	Discovery
SC0700*	17-19 May 2000	15 Apr - 5 May 2000	W. Turrell	MarLab	Scotia
DI25301	6 - 7 May 2001	4 May -20 June 2001	J. Allen	SOC	Discovery
SC0703*	17 - 19 Apr 2003	15 Apr - 5 May 2003	W. Turrell	MarLab	Scotia
P300*	21 - 25 Jul 2003	19 Jul - 6 Aug 2003	C. Griffiths	SAMS	Poseidon
P314	12 - 15 Jul 2004	11 Jul - 23 Jul 2004	J. Read	SOC	Poseidon
CD176	6 - 28 Oct 2005	6-28 Oct 2005	T. Sherwin	SAMS	Charles Darwin
D31206	22-30 Oct 2006	11-31 Oct 2006	J. Allen	NOCS	Discovery
D321a07	27-28 Jul 2007	24 Jul - 23 Aug 2007	J. Allen	NOCS	Discovery
D321b07	28- 31 Aug 2007	24 Aug - 9 Sep 2007	T. Sherwin	SAMS	Discovery
SC0805*	21 - 23 May 2008	6 - 25 May 2008	T. Sherwin	SAMS	Scotia
D34009	10 - 25 Jun 2009	11 - 20 Jun 2009	T. Sherwin	SAMS	Discovery
D35110	10 - 28 May 2010	12 - 21 May 2010	J. Read	NOCS	Discovery
D36511	11 May - 2 Jun 2011	29 - 31 May 2011	J. Read	NOCS	Discovery
Cruise	Section (Data) Dates	Cruise Dates	Chief Scientist	Institute	Ship

* denotes post-1996 cruises that occupied the Ellett Line and not the section to Iceland.