Ships shown as registered at Tralee in the Mercantile Navy List for 1920

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
AILEEN1160251914, Motor View entry for AILEEN in MNL 1920, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ANGELUS BELL128844Sail, Nobby View entry for ANGELUS BELL in MNL 1920, page 680 MHACLIPMore...
AVE MARIS STELLA128353Sail, Nobby View entry for AVE MARIS STELLA in MNL 1920, page 690 MHACLIPMore...
BITTERN95700Sail, Dandy View entry for BITTERN in MNL 1920, page 700 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE BELL112945Sail, Nobby View entry for BLUE BELL in MNL 1920, page 701 MHACLIPMore...
BOY WILLIE91009Sail, Dandy View entry for BOY WILLIE in MNL 1920, page 703 MHACLIPMore...
BRIDGET128841Sail, Nobby View entry for BRIDGET in MNL 1920, page 704 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE LONG128351Sail, Nobby View entry for CATHERINE LONG in MNL 1920, page 714 MHACLIPMore...
COULIN120774Sail, Nobby View entry for COULIN in MNL 1920, page 728 MHACLIPMore...
CROMPTON1288471912, Motor View entry for CROMPTON in MNL 1920, page 136 MHACLIPMore...
FLESK1288491913, Motor View entry for FLESK in MNL 1920, page 205 MHACLIPMore...
FOUR LEAFED SHAMROCK1356231916, Motor View entry for FOUR LEAFED SHAMROCK in MNL 1920, page 211 MHACLIPMore...
GARNET108824Sail, Lugger View entry for GARNET in MNL 1920, page 787 MHACLIPMore...
LA BELLE112944Sail, Lugger View entry for LA BELLE in MNL 1920, page 847 MHACLIPMore...
LADY VENTRY67619Sail, Ketch View entry for LADY VENTRY in MNL 1920, page 848 MHACLIPMore...
LEO124301Sail, Lugger View entry for LEO in MNL 1920, page 854 MHACLIPMore...
LIBERATOR DON128845Sail, Nobby View entry for LIBERATOR DON in MNL 1920, page 855 MHACLIPMore...
MABEL115505Sail, Nobby View entry for MABEL in MNL 1920, page 868 MHACLIPMore...
MADONNA124304Sail, Nobby View entry for MADONNA in MNL 1920, page 870 MHACLIPMore...
MAID OF COVE92010Sail, Yawl View entry for MAID OF COVE in MNL 1920, page 871 MHACLIPMore...
MAID OF MONA96107Sail, Dandy View entry for MAID OF MONA in MNL 1920, page 872 MHACLIPMore...
MAIREAD128834Sail, Nobby View entry for MAIREAD in MNL 1920, page 872 MHACLIPMore...
MAJESTIC120771Sail, Nobby View entry for MAJESTIC in MNL 1920, page 872 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA LONG135624Sail, Nobby View entry for MARIA LONG in MNL 1920, page 876 MHACLIPMore...
MARY124303Sail, Nobby View entry for MARY in MNL 1920, page 881 MHACLIPMore...
MARY BERNADETTE1288501913, Motor View entry for MARY BERNADETTE in MNL 1920, page 382 MHACLIPMore...
MARY IMMACULATE128831Sail, Nobby View entry for MARY IMMACULATE in MNL 1920, page 883 MHACLIPMore...
NAOV LIAM128838Sail, Nobby View entry for NAOV LIAM in MNL 1920, page 903 MHACLIPMore...
OCEAN BILLOW128842Sail, Nobby View entry for OCEAN BILLOW in MNL 1920, page 915 MHACLIPMore...
OCEAN STAR1201121913, Motor View entry for OCEAN STAR in MNL 1920, page 434 MHACLIPMore...
PERSEVERANCE92007Sail, Yawl View entry for PERSEVERANCE in MNL 1920, page 928 MHACLIPMore...
PREMIER99513Sail, Dandy View entry for PREMIER in MNL 1920, page 935 MHACLIPMore...
QUEEN BEE115502Sail, Ketch View entry for QUEEN BEE in MNL 1920, page 939 MHACLIPMore...
RAMBLER104691Sail, Ketch View entry for RAMBLER in MNL 1920, page 942 MHACLIPMore...
ROVER96110Sail, Dandy View entry for ROVER in MNL 1920, page 952 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT BENEDICT1288361912, Motor View entry for SAINT BENEDICT in MNL 1920, page 517 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT BRENDAN115504Sail, Ketch View entry for SAINT BRENDAN in MNL 1920, page 957 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT CROHANE1129411918, Motor View entry for SAINT CROHANE in MNL 1920, page 517 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT DERERCA1288481912, Motor View entry for SAINT DERERCA in MNL 1920, page 518 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT FINIAN1356271919, Motor View entry for SAINT FINIAN in MNL 1920, page 519 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT ITA120775Sail, Ketch View entry for SAINT ITA in MNL 1920, page 958 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT JOHN ANTHONY128843Sail, Nobby View entry for SAINT JOHN ANTHONY in MNL 1920, page 958 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT PETRO128833Sail, Nobby View entry for SAINT PETRO in MNL 1920, page 960 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT SWITHIN128837Sail, Nobby View entry for SAINT SWITHIN in MNL 1920, page 960 MHACLIPMore...
SAMPHIRE1283521908, Steam View entry for SAMPHIRE in MNL 1920, page 524 MHACLIPMore...
SARAH O'CONNELL128832Sail, Nobby View entry for SARAH O'CONNELL in MNL 1920, page 963 MHACLIPMore...
SKELLIG BELLE1356261918, Motor View entry for SKELLIG BELLE in MNL 1920, page 549 MHACLIPMore...
SPREE1356251918, Motor View entry for SPREE in MNL 1920, page 558 MHACLIPMore...
STAR OF COVE92009Sail, Yawl View entry for STAR OF COVE in MNL 1920, page 980 MHACLIPMore...
TRALY1288461912, Motor View entry for TRALY in MNL 1920, page 598 MHACLIPMore...
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