SHIP directory contains sea surface temperature meansure- ments, carried out by the Russian and foreign ships in the Northern Pacific of the XIX century. All data are from the book by S.O.Makarov "Vitiaz and Pacific ocean", Saint- Petersburg, 1894. The directory includes 27 files, named according to the ships' names. Each observation in the file is represented in the form of one symbol line. The length of the line is 22 symbols. The format of the line is the following: ------------------------------------------------------------------ # Variable Positions True Comment value ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Year 1-4 1803-1891 2 Month 5-6 3 Date 7-8 4 Degrees of latitude 9-10 5 Minutes of latitude 11-12 6 Sign of latitude 13 s,n s-south latitude, n-north latitude 7 Degrees of longitude 14-16 8 Minutes of longitude 17-18 9 Sign of longitude 19 e,w e-east longitude, w-west longitude 10 Sea surface tempera- 20-22 degrees centigrate x 10 ture ------------------------------------------------------------------- Names of the ships are the following: ----------------------------------------------------------------- File Name Number Observation of the ship of reports period ------------------------------------------------------------------ ALCESTE Alceste 5 1817 AMERICA America (russ.) 1 1869 ASTROLAB L'Astrolabe 1 1828 BLOSSOM Blossom 15 1825-1828 BOGATIR Bogatir (russ.) 18 1862-1865 CHALLENG Challenger 66 1874-1875 GAZELLE Gazell 5 1875 HERALD Herald 2 1845-1851 INVESTIG Investigator 2 1850-1854 KOUEGDA Kouegda (russ.) 4 1869 KREISSER Kreisser (russ.) 13 1886 LABONITE La Bonite 4 1836-1839 NADEJDA Nadejda (russ.) 12 1803-1806 NAHIMOV Nahimov (russ.) 1 1891 NAHODKA Nahodka (russ.) 46 1869 NAIESDNI Naiesdnik (russ.) 5 1860-1863 NOVARA Novara 5 1857-1859 OLIVOUZA Olivouza (russ.) 1 1851 PREDPRIA Predpriatie (russ.) 6 1823-1826 RODGERS Rodgers 3 1855 RURIK Rurik (russ.) 25 1815-1818 TUSCAROR Tuscarora 365 1874-1875 VARIAG Variag (russ.) 7 1864-1866 VEGA Vega (russ.) 60 1878-1879 VENUS La Venus 6 1836-1839 VITIAZ Vitiaz (russ.) 153 1886-1889 VOSTOK Vostok (russ.) 9 1868 -------------------------------------------------------------