Official Number and Code Letters
Official Numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.
Empire Ardle and Lewis Hamilton had the UK Official Number 181527. Indus had the Swedish Official Number 9218.
Read more about this topic: SS Indus (1945)
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