Ships shown as registered at Woodbridge 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  ? .

Records for Woodbridge may also be found under Aldeburgh.

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
ALFRED & LOUISA21848Sail View entry for ALFRED & LOUISA in MNL 1870, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA21834Sail View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1870, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
ANNETTE21846Sail View entry for ANNETTE in MNL 1870, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ARGO22153Sail View entry for ARGO in MNL 1870, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
BENGAL21849Sail View entry for BENGAL in MNL 1870, page 42 MHACLIPMore...
BERNARD BARTON8642Sail View entry for BERNARD BARTON in MNL 1870, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
CHRISTIANA17404Sail View entry for CHRISTIANA in MNL 1870, page 72 MHACLIPMore...
CLEMENTINA6292Sail View entry for CLEMENTINA in MNL 1870, page 75 MHACLIPMore...
COASTER6214Sail View entry for COASTER in MNL 1870, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
CUPID21828Sail View entry for CUPID in MNL 1870, page 86 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH4880Sail View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1870, page 114 MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN21820Sail View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1870, page 117 MHACLIPMore...
ELSIE45137Sail View entry for ELSIE in MNL 1870, page 118 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELSIOR21847Sail View entry for EXCELSIOR in MNL 1870, page 130 MHACLIPMore...
FAIRY QUEEN20961Sail View entry for FAIRY QUEEN in MNL 1870, page 133 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA21816Sail View entry for FLORA in MNL 1870, page 141 MHACLIPMore...
FLY10704Sail View entry for FLY in MNL 1870, page 142 MHACLIPMore...
FOUR BROTHERS21835Sail View entry for FOUR BROTHERS in MNL 1870, page 145 MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE CANNING14102Sail View entry for GEORGE CANNING in MNL 1870, page 154 MHACLIPMore...
GLEANER21802Sail View entry for GLEANER in MNL 1870, page 158 MHACLIPMore...
HEBE8376Sail View entry for HEBE in MNL 1870, page 172 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE3544Sail View entry for HOPE in MNL 1870, page 181 MHACLIPMore...
INDUSTRY17831Sail View entry for INDUSTRY in MNL 1870, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
JANE6262Sail View entry for JANE in MNL 1870, page 197 MHACLIPMore...
JEMIMA21825Sail View entry for JEMIMA in MNL 1870, page 201 MHACLIPMore...
KITTY23840Sail View entry for KITTY in MNL 1870, page 217 MHACLIPMore...
LADY OF THE WAVE28945Sail View entry for LADY OF THE WAVE in MNL 1870, page 221 MHACLIPMore...
LAURA4832Sail View entry for LAURA in MNL 1870, page 223 MHACLIPMore...
LEADER21349Sail View entry for LEADER in MNL 1870, page 224 MHACLIPMore...
LOUISA45138Sail View entry for LOUISA in MNL 1870, page 235 MHACLIPMore...
MANCHESTER23758Sail View entry for MANCHESTER in MNL 1870, page 242 MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET45139Sail View entry for MARGARET in MNL 1870, page 245 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA LOUISA21844Sail View entry for MARIA LOUISA in MNL 1870, page 247 MHACLIPMore...
MARY26683Sail View entry for MARY in MNL 1870, page 255 MHACLIPMore...
MARY ANN11999Sail View entry for MARY ANN in MNL 1870, page 256 MHACLIPMore...
NAUTILUS21836Sail View entry for NAUTILUS in MNL 1870, page 278 MHACLIPMore...
OUSE4861Sail View entry for OUSE in MNL 1870, page 293 MHACLIPMore...
PERCY28944Sail View entry for PERCY in MNL 1870, page 299 MHACLIPMore...
PETREL22155Sail View entry for PETREL in MNL 1870, page 302 MHACLIPMore...
PHOENIX717Sail View entry for PHOENIX in MNL 1870, page 303 MHACLIPMore...
PILOT5886Sail View entry for PILOT in MNL 1870, page 304 MHACLIPMore...
QUEEN25797Sail View entry for QUEEN in MNL 1870, page 316 MHACLIPMore...
RICHARD & SARAH16610Sail View entry for RICHARD & SARAH in MNL 1870, page 327 MHACLIPMore...
ROBERT & WILLIAM21803Sail View entry for ROBERT & WILLIAM in MNL 1870, page 330 MHACLIPMore...
SALAMANDER21837Sail View entry for SALAMANDER in MNL 1870, page 340 MHACLIPMore...
SOPHIA3601Sail View entry for SOPHIA in MNL 1870, page 358 MHACLIPMore...
SYLPH21262Sail View entry for SYLPH in MNL 1870, page 372 MHACLIPMore...
THETIS21806Sail View entry for THETIS in MNL 1870, page 378 MHACLIPMore...
THOMAS15186Sail View entry for THOMAS in MNL 1870, page 379 MHACLIPMore...
THOMAS21807Sail View entry for THOMAS in MNL 1870, page 379 MHACLIPMore...
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