Ships shown as registered at Wick in the Mercantile Navy List for 1870

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  ? .

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ACHEEN5543Sail View entry for ACHEEN in MNL 1870, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION18550Sail View entry for ALBION in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT53145Sail View entry for ALERT in MNL 1870, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALMA22094Sail View entry for ALMA in MNL 1870, page 17 MHACLIPMore...
ANN FLEMING19430Sail View entry for ANN FLEMING in MNL 1870, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
ASPERN5061Sail View entry for ASPERN in MNL 1870, page 33 MHACLIPMore...
BARBARA43565Sail View entry for BARBARA in MNL 1870, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BARROGILL CASTLE21657Sail View entry for BARROGILL CASTLE in MNL 1870, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BEE20237Sail View entry for BEE in MNL 1870, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
BLOSSOM7729Sail View entry for BLOSSOM in MNL 1870, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BONNIE LASS56724Sail View entry for BONNIE LASS in MNL 1870, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
CAIRNDUNA53143Sail View entry for CAIRNDUNA in MNL 1870, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
CAITHNESS LASS45588Sail View entry for CAITHNESS LASS in MNL 1870, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
CAITHNESS-SHIRE17485Sail View entry for CAITHNESS-SHIRE in MNL 1870, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
CASTLEHILL56720Sail View entry for CASTLEHILL in MNL 1870, page 63 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE56716Sail View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1870, page 64 MHACLIPMore...
CERES17641Sail View entry for CERES in MNL 1870, page 66 MHACLIPMore...
COUNTESS OF CAITHNESS14447Sail View entry for COUNTESS OF CAITHNESS in MNL 1870, page 84 MHACLIPMore...
DUKE OF SUTHERLAND45590Sail View entry for DUKE OF SUTHERLAND in MNL 1870, page 100 MHACLIPMore...
DUNBORVE53147Sail View entry for DUNBORVE in MNL 1870, page 100 MHACLIPMore...
DUNROBIN21621Sail View entry for DUNROBIN in MNL 1870, page 100 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE7743Sail View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1870, page 104 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH19518Sail View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1870, page 114 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH BARCLAY17953Sail View entry for ELIZABETH BARCLAY in MNL 1870, page 115 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH MILLER45582Sail View entry for ELIZABETH MILLER in MNL 1870, page 115 MHACLIPMore...
EXPERT14450Sail View entry for EXPERT in MNL 1870, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS29228Sail View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1870, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS53148Sail View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1870, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
FAIRY QUEEN12084Sail View entry for FAIRY QUEEN in MNL 1870, page 133 MHACLIPMore...
FARMERS22238Sail View entry for FARMERS in MNL 1870, page 136 MHACLIPMore...
FIDELITY24708Sail View entry for FIDELITY in MNL 1870, page 138 MHACLIPMore...
GOOD DESIGN21624Sail View entry for GOOD DESIGN in MNL 1870, page 161 MHACLIPMore...
GUIDING STAR53146Sail View entry for GUIDING STAR in MNL 1870, page 164 MHACLIPMore...
HUNTER42169Sail View entry for HUNTER in MNL 1870, page 182 MHACLIPMore...
INCHBROOM18096Sail View entry for INCHBROOM in MNL 1870, page 184 MHACLIPMore...
IONA53142Sail View entry for IONA in MNL 1870, page 187 MHACLIPMore...
JAMES DUNNET62691Sail View entry for JAMES DUNNET in MNL 1870, page 194 MHACLIPMore...
JANE27736Sail View entry for JANE in MNL 1870, page 197 MHACLIPMore...
JANES & MARGARET19060Sail View entry for JANES & MARGARET in MNL 1870, page 199 MHACLIPMore...
JANET FRASER44776Sail View entry for JANET FRASER in MNL 1870, page 199 MHACLIPMore...
JANET SINCLAIR56722Sail View entry for JANET SINCLAIR in MNL 1870, page 199 MHACLIPMore...
JEANIE LOUTTIT62692Sail View entry for JEANIE LOUTTIT in MNL 1870, page 200 MHACLIPMore...
LAUREL1453Sail View entry for LAUREL in MNL 1870, page 223 MHACLIPMore...
LOCHNAGAR391Sail View entry for LOCHNAGAR in MNL 1870, page 232 MHACLIPMore...
LOOK-OUT56717Sail View entry for LOOK-OUT in MNL 1870, page 233 MHACLIPMore...
MAGGIE56718Sail View entry for MAGGIE in MNL 1870, page 239 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA REID45589Sail View entry for MARIA REID in MNL 1870, page 247 MHACLIPMore...
NONPAREIL14985Sail View entry for NONPAREIL in MNL 1870, page 283 MHACLIPMore...
OCEAN STAR21771Sail View entry for OCEAN STAR in MNL 1870, page 287 MHACLIPMore...
PARAGON53150Sail View entry for PARAGON in MNL 1870, page 295 MHACLIPMore...
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