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In the second half of the 18th century, marine insurers, based at Lloyd's coffee house in London, developed a system for the independent inspection of the hull and equipment of ships presented to them for insurance cover.
At that time, an attempt was made to 'classify' the condition of each ship on an annual basis. The condition of the hull was classified A, E, I, O or U, according to the excellence of its construction and its adjudged continuing soundness (or otherwise). Equipment was G, M, or B: simply, good, middling or bad. In time, G, M and B were replaced by 1, 2 or 3, which is the origin of the well-known expression 'A1', meaning 'first or highest class'.
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