Talk:Classification society

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[edit] Ship Register

While wikifing Farley Mowat (Sea Shepherd vessel) I was looking for information on Ship Registers. Not to much was forthcoming, so I have redirected Ship Register here. I don't know that much about the function of registers (such as naming, legal requirements etc). The Farley Mowat article mentioned that about a registration being struck and the ship loosing their registration flag some more information about that would be usefull here. Fosnez 08:46, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Ship registers in that sense should redirect to Flag_State. Classification societies may have the word "register" in their name (such as Lloyds Register or Hellenic Register) but they are not ship registers. That authority is only with national administrations such as the US Coast Guard, Liberia Registry, Panama Registry, etc.Offshore1 20:56, 3 March 2007 (UTC)