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A 5 page paper reviewing the history and purpose of classification societies and the manner in which a ship comes to be certified by one of those societies. Ships can be registered in any country for which the ship's classification society has flag authorization, but they are much more limited in the classification society with which they are associated. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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any ocean in the world flies a national flag, the flag of the country in which the ship is registered. Approximately 94 percent of all commercial ships also are
certified by one of the worlds classification societies. Origins and Purpose of Classification The marine insurers based at Londons Lloyds coffee house devised
a rating system for determining the soundness of ships they were being asked to insure. They formed a committee in 1760 to devise this system; that committee produced the
"Lloyds Register Book for the years 1764-65-66" (What are classification societies?, 2004; p. 3). The concept spread, and in 1828 "Bureau Veritas (BV) was founded in Antwerp ... moving
to Paris in 1832" (What are classification societies?, 2004; p. 3). "Lloyds Register of British and Foreign Shipping was reconstituted as a self-standing classification society in 1834; rules for
construction and survey were published the same year. Registro Italiano Navale (RINA) dates from 1861; American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) traces its origins back to 1862" (What are classification
societies?, 2004; p. 3). Later classification societies and the years they were created include: * Norwegian Det Norske Veritas (DNV), 1864 * Germanischer Lloyd (GL), 1867 * Nippon Kaiji
Kyokai (ClassNK), 1899 * River Register of 1913: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) * Croatian Register of Shipping (CRS), 1949 * China Classification Society (CCS), 1956 * Korean Register
(KR), 1960 * Indian Register of Shipping (IRS), 1975 (What are classification societies?, 2004). Worldwide, there are more than 50 organizations that provide
marine classification. Ten of these comprise the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS). Two other classification societies have been named as associate classification societies by the IACS; in
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