CORRAL: Historical meteorological recordings from the UK colonial registers and Royal Navy logbook images

The UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks (CORRAL) project uses late 18th to early 20th century archive material to enhance the global coverage of daily to sub-daily weather observations by digitising Royal Navy ship's logbooks (from ships of voyages of scientific discovery and those in the service of the Hydrographic Survey) and coastal and island records contained in UK Colonial documents. This dataset contains meteorological recordings from marine sites back to the 18th Century.

These records are held at The National Archive, Kew. The ADM section includes records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies, concerning all aspects of the organisation and operation of the Royal Navy and associated naval forces, over the period 1205-1998 (more details are available in the National Archives catalogue entry).

The CORRAL project deals with the following series:

ADM51: Admiralty: Captains' Logs, 1669-1853

ADM53: Admiralty: and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Ships' Logs 1799-1985 [Excluding Flying Squadron]

ADM53 -- Flying Squadron: Admiralty: and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Ships' Logs 1869-1872

ADM55: Admiralty: Supplementary Logs and Journals of Ships on Exploration, 1757-1861; 1904, including logs from the voyages of James Cook.

To aid usability of this dataset an index service has been produced, linked to from this record.

Date (Publication): 2023-11-28T08:01:45

Date (Creation): 2023-11-28T08:01:45

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/fa063965785aa4fcd82ed0db56e97c94

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / fa063965785aa4fcd82ed0db56e97c94

Point of contact

Organisation name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks Project (CORRAL)	info@corral.org.uk	Author
Met Office	enquiries@metoffice.gov.uk	Author
University of Sunderland	unknown	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
UK Colonial Registers and Royal Navy Logbooks Project (CORRAL)	info@corral.org.uk	Principal investigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)	badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

CORRAL
meteorology
ships

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1771-01-01T00:01:15

End date: 1950-01-01T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Images are jpeg formatted

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/fa063965785aa4fcd82ed0db56e97c94	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/corral/images	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/corral/anc	Link to md5 checks

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.corral.org.uk/	CORRAL website

Hierarchy level: Dataset

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Images have been digitised as part of the CORRAL project and made available through the BADC

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File identifier: fa063965785aa4fcd82ed0db56e97c94 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: CORRAL: Historical meteorological recordings from the UK colonial registers and Royal Navy logbook images
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-03-16T03:00:31

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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