Catalogue description Sea Gem Offshore Drilling Platform: Inquiries into Loss

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Reference: POWE 46
Title: Sea Gem Offshore Drilling Platform: Inquiries into Loss
Description:

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.
Date: 1964-1967
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See also Subseries within POWE 63
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 5 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

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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