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Sea Gem Offshore Drilling Platform: Inquiries into Loss
Catalogue reference: POWE 46
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POWE 46
Papers relating to two enquiries, by BP Trading Ltd and the Ministry of Power, into the sinking of the drilling platform, Sea Gem, in 1965.
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POWE 46
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- Sea Gem Offshore Drilling Platform: Inquiries into Loss
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Date (When the record was created)
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1964-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers relating to two enquiries, by BP Trading Ltd and the Ministry of Power, into the sinking of the drilling platform, Sea Gem, in 1965.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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English
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5 files and volumes
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Subject to 30 year closure
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The drilling platform, Sea Gem, built in 1953 and modified in 1964, was on lease to BP Development Ltd when it collapsed, capsized and sank in the North Sea on 27 December 1965.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11862/
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