Ships shown as registered at Preston in the Mercantile Navy List for 1915

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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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
AGNES19837Sail, Schooner View entry for AGNES in MNL 1915, page 659 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE MELLING1149131906, Steam View entry for ANNIE MELLING in MNL 1915, page 27 MHACLIPMore...
ARETHUSA974501895, Steam View entry for ARETHUSA in MNL 1915, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
BELTURBET812321880, Steam View entry for BELTURBET in MNL 1915, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
DREDGER NO 101149141907, Steam View entry for DREDGER NO 10 in MNL 1915, page 164 MHACLIPMore...
DREDGER NO 91149151907, Steam View entry for DREDGER NO 9 in MNL 1915, page 163 MHACLIPMore...
DUCHESS1052331897, Steam View entry for DUCHESS in MNL 1915, page 165 MHACLIPMore...
EARNEST88712Sail, Schooner View entry for EARNEST in MNL 1915, page 742 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH HYAM62773Sail, Wherry View entry for ELIZABETH HYAM in MNL 1915, page 750 MHACLIPMore...
ENERGY1052361899, Steam View entry for ENERGY in MNL 1915, page 189 MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE974491895, Steam View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1915, page 191 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL73474Sail, Schooner View entry for ETHEL in MNL 1915, page 761 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL1130761914, Steam View entry for ETHEL in MNL 1915, page 195 MHACLIPMore...
FORSHAW1052341897, Steam View entry for FORSHAW in MNL 1915, page 215 MHACLIPMore...
FULWOOD1126011900, Steam View entry for FULWOOD in MNL 1915, page 221 MHACLIPMore...
FYLDE1052391899, Steam View entry for FYLDE in MNL 1915, page 221 MHACLIPMore...
GLADYS74523Sail, Schooner View entry for GLADYS in MNL 1915, page 789 MHACLIPMore...
GYP1149191910, Steam View entry for GYP in MNL 1915, page 249 MHACLIPMore...
HARMONY73479Sail, Wherry View entry for HARMONY in MNL 1915, page 802 MHACLIPMore...
HOLME FORCE791281906, Steam View entry for HOLME FORCE in MNL 1915, page 269 MHACLIPMore...
HOPPER NO 21126031900, Steam View entry for HOPPER NO 2 in MNL 1915, page 271 MHACLIPMore...
HOPPER NO 3899701890, Steam View entry for HOPPER NO 3 in MNL 1915, page 272 MHACLIPMore...
HOPPER NO 4126061900, Steam View entry for HOPPER NO 4 in MNL 1915, page 272 MHACLIPMore...
HOPPER NO 5899721905, Steam View entry for HOPPER NO 5 in MNL 1915, page 272 MHACLIPMore...
HOPPER NO 51126071900, Steam View entry for HOPPER NO 5 in MNL 1915, page 272 MHACLIPMore...
HOPPER NO 61126041900, Steam View entry for HOPPER NO 6 in MNL 1915, page 272 MHACLIPMore...
JAMES FLETCHER1149161907, Steam View entry for JAMES FLETCHER in MNL 1915, page 297 MHACLIPMore...
KATANA1149171908, Motor View entry for KATANA in MNL 1915, page 311 MHACLIPMore...
LA GLORIA1052311895, Steam View entry for LA GLORIA in MNL 1915, page 329 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZIE56694Sail, Schooner View entry for LIZZIE in MNL 1915, page 862 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZIE MELLING1149121904, Steam View entry for LIZZIE MELLING in MNL 1915, page 349 MHACLIPMore...
MAJESTA1113611901, Steam View entry for MAJESTA in MNL 1915, page 369 MHACLIPMore...
MARY97441Sail, Cutter View entry for MARY in MNL 1915, page 884 MHACLIPMore...
MAYNARD1052401900, Steam View entry for MAYNARD in MNL 1915, page 385 MHACLIPMore...
MOYA114918Sail, Cutter View entry for MOYA in MNL 1915, page 905 MHACLIPMore...
PERSEVERANCE1052321896, Steam View entry for PERSEVERANCE in MNL 1915, page 456 MHACLIPMore...
PRESTON112605Sail View entry for PRESTON in MNL 1915, page 943 MHACLIPMore...
PRESTONIAN1126101901, Steam View entry for PRESTONIAN in MNL 1915, page 470 MHACLIPMore...
QUEEN OF THE BAY69706Sail, Jury View entry for QUEEN OF THE BAY in MNL 1915, page 949 MHACLIPMore...
SUSANNAH62775Sail, Schooner View entry for SUSANNAH in MNL 1915, page 999 MHACLIPMore...
TARLETON LASS73480Sail, Wherry View entry for TARLETON LASS in MNL 1915, page 1004 MHACLIPMore...
UNION1549Sail, Schooner View entry for UNION in MNL 1915, page 1018 MHACLIPMore...
VENUS56685Sail, Schooner View entry for VENUS in MNL 1915, page 1023 MHACLIPMore...
VICTORIA974421891, Steam View entry for VICTORIA in MNL 1915, page 614 MHACLIPMore...
WALTER BIBBY1126021900, Steam View entry for WALTER BIBBY in MNL 1915, page 624 MHACLIPMore...
WELCOME88713Sail, Schooner View entry for WELCOME in MNL 1915, page 1036 MHACLIPMore...
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