Ships shown as registered at Barnstaple in the Mercantile Navy List for 1900

British ships were registered at one of hundreds of ports of registry around Britain and what were then British colonies.

This page is an index of ships by their port of registry using data from the contemporary official sources such as the Mercantile Navy List (MNL) and the Appropriation Books.

For each port, it shows first a count of the entries by year. For a year selected from that list, it shows ship names and official numbers, sorted first by name, then by official number, with other details such as date of registration, and rig. For each record, links are provided to images of the source documents and to other data items such as holdings of crew lists.

For a full explanation of the records of British shipping, please see our information page, here: Records of British ships

How to search for ships by port

As described above, first select the port, then the year from the table of counts of ships.

For some ports, where there were other ports nearby, ships may have been registered at one of those ports. Where this is a possibility, the form provides facilities to switch to one of the other ports, or to see data for all the ports together.

Reading the results

The results show the names of ships registered at the port according to the records for that year. For record sets after 1855, the ship's official number is shown. The results show any other details from the source, and the exact reference for the source so that you can see where our information came from. The  icon links to images of the source.

For the pre-1857 data drawn from BT 111 and BT 162, there is a link on the right hand side Data post 1855 which will search the CLIP data for later years by name and port, looking for possible matches in the period 1855 to 1870. Beware! Because there were no official numbers for this period, these are only tentative suggestions, not exact matches. Some common names could result in many possibilities!

For post-1857 data, which has official numbers, there are also links to show holdings of crew lists for that ship, using the Maritime History Archive index and our own CLIP index.

The 'More...' link will show all the information that we have for that official number.

The records are initially sorted by the ship's name. For the pre-1857 records, the records can be sorted by year and number of registration; for the post-1857 data, they can be sorted by official number. To change the sort, click the small icon next to the column heading.

For data from BT 111 and 1850 (BT 162), there is a final column, Port no/PR no, shows port number and port rotation number combinations for that ship, which we have recorded or have interpolated from crew list records for the period 1845 to 1854 in BT 98 at TNA. These numbers were used in the records of seafarers such as BT 113 and BT 124.

For more details of port numbers, see Port numbers . For more details of port rotation numbers, see Port rotation numbers

The entries are colour coded.  nn/nnn  indicates data drawn from BT 98.  nn/nnn  indicates data interpolated from BT 98 data. Blank entries indicate where we have no data and are not able to interpolate data reliably, for example registrations pre-1845. Many early (and some post-1853) registrations may never have been allocated a port rotation number.

The link next to the data goes to the main port rotation numbers page for that registration.

Our thanks to James Canney for suggesting adding the port rotation number data.

Data sources

The sources of the data are:

Please see our general information page CLIP data for details on sources, methodology, the abbreviations we have used, and our acknowledgements.

Be aware! CLIP data is transcribed 'as seen' - we have not tried to interpret or correct it (but see note about BT 111 in the Data sources section). Where we have doubts about an item, or have edited it, we mark it with a  ? .

Records for Barnstaple may also be found under Ilfracombe.

Click a port name to see the records for that port

To show records for all the ports together, please click here

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ACACIA81036Sail, Ketch View entry for ACACIA in MNL 1900, page 389 MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE791451885, Steam View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1900, page 5 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE63356Sail, Dandy View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 406 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE CLARK84471Sail, Ketch View entry for BESSIE CLARK in MNL 1900, page 422 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE GOULD68197Sail, Ketch View entry for BESSIE GOULD in MNL 1900, page 422 MHACLIPMore...
BULLA68755Sail, Schooner View entry for BULLA in MNL 1900, page 432 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIA18356Sail, Ketch View entry for CAMBRIA in MNL 1900, page 434 MHACLIPMore...
COEY844721881, Steam View entry for COEY in MNL 1900, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
DEVON291Sail, Ketch View entry for DEVON in MNL 1900, page 462 MHACLIPMore...
DISPATCH1678Sail, Ketch View entry for DISPATCH in MNL 1900, page 464 MHACLIPMore...
EMMA LOUISE84475Sail, Ketch View entry for EMMA LOUISE in MNL 1900, page 484 MHACLIPMore...
EMPIRE22866Sail, Ketch View entry for EMPIRE in MNL 1900, page 485 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS22382Sail, Ketch View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1900, page 493 MHACLIPMore...
F A M E81044Sail, Ketch View entry for F A M E in MNL 1900, page 494 MHACLIPMore...
FISHGUARD LASS62792Sail, Ketch View entry for FISHGUARD LASS in MNL 1900, page 499 MHACLIPMore...
GANNET72443Sail, Smack View entry for GANNET in MNL 1900, page 509 MHACLIPMore...
HERO93982Sail, Cutter View entry for HERO in MNL 1900, page 532 MHACLIPMore...
J M J56030Sail, Schooner View entry for J M J in MNL 1900, page 545 MHACLIPMore...
JANE18599Sail, Ketch View entry for JANE in MNL 1900, page 548 MHACLIPMore...
JANE & SARAH16048Sail, Ketch View entry for JANE & SARAH in MNL 1900, page 550 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN & ANN15338Sail, Ketch View entry for JOHN & ANN in MNL 1900, page 556 MHACLIPMore...
KITTY ANN15349Sail, Ketch View entry for KITTY ANN in MNL 1900, page 566 MHACLIPMore...
LADY HARVEY14039Sail, Ketch View entry for LADY HARVEY in MNL 1900, page 569 MHACLIPMore...
LENORA19225Sail, Ketch View entry for LENORA in MNL 1900, page 574 MHACLIPMore...
LINDA78190Sail, Ketch View entry for LINDA in MNL 1900, page 579 MHACLIPMore...
MAGGIE ANNIE78706Sail, Ketch View entry for MAGGIE ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 590 MHACLIPMore...
MARY15341Sail, Sloop View entry for MARY in MNL 1900, page 601 MHACLIPMore...
MARY GRACE15323Sail, Smack View entry for MARY GRACE in MNL 1900, page 605 MHACLIPMore...
MISTLETOE93983Sail, Ketch View entry for MISTLETOE in MNL 1900, page 619 MHACLIPMore...
NUGGET15563Sail, Ketch View entry for NUGGET in MNL 1900, page 632 MHACLIPMore...
OLIVE & MARY77368Sail, Ketch View entry for OLIVE & MARY in MNL 1900, page 637 MHACLIPMore...
OLIVE BRANCH76578Sail, Ketch View entry for OLIVE BRANCH in MNL 1900, page 636 MHACLIPMore...
QUIVER26710Sail, Smack View entry for QUIVER in MNL 1900, page 660 MHACLIPMore...
SELENE47887Sail, Sloop View entry for SELENE in MNL 1900, page 689 MHACLIPMore...
SNOWFLAKE998801897, Steam View entry for SNOWFLAKE in MNL 1900, page 326 MHACLIPMore...
STRANGER29673Sail, Ketch View entry for STRANGER in MNL 1900, page 703 MHACLIPMore...
T M P68862Sail, Ketch View entry for T M P in MNL 1900, page 710 MHACLIPMore...
THOMAS19279Sail, Ketch View entry for THOMAS in MNL 1900, page 715 MHACLIPMore...
TWO SISTERS47889Sail, Ketch View entry for TWO SISTERS in MNL 1900, page 723 MHACLIPMore...
ULELIA74429Sail, Schooner View entry for ULELIA in MNL 1900, page 724 MHACLIPMore...
VICTORIA18391Sail, Ketch View entry for VICTORIA in MNL 1900, page 730 MHACLIPMore...
VIKING93984Sail, Schooner View entry for VIKING in MNL 1900, page 732 MHACLIPMore...
WHY NOT13837Sail, Sloop View entry for WHY NOT in MNL 1900, page 743 MHACLIPMore...
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