The Infrared Astronomical Satellite(IRAS) all-sky survey provided a large
database(IRAS Point Source Catalog, Version 2, 1988) of infrared galaxies.
Based on recently completed redshift surveys of IRAS
galaxies, statistical spectroscopic analysis of very luminous IRAS galaxy samples can now be performed.
Sanders et al. (1988) have already studied the spectra of a small sample of ten ultraluminous
IRAS galaxies selected from IRAS Bright Galaxy Survey (BGS) of
Soifer et al. (1986).
Recently Kim et al. (1995) completed a spectroscopic survey based on a large sample of luminous IRAS galaxies that was extracted from both the BGS
and infrared warmed catalogs. However, the infrared luminosity range of Kim et al.'s sample is
from 
to 
and it
therefore cannot represent very luminous IRAS galaxies.
This paper presents the spectroscopic data for a large complete sample of very luminous IRAS galaxies (VLIRGs), extracted from 1.936 Jy Redshift Survey of Strauss et al. (1992). The DSS images are also presented, here. A detailed analysis of the spectra and environment will be presented in Paper II (Wu et al. 1997).