Ships shown as registered at Runcorn 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  ? .

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ADA83509Sail, Flat View entry for ADA in MNL 1900, page 391 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS67141Sail, Flat View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1900, page 395 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION79366Sail, Schooner View entry for ALBION in MNL 1900, page 396 MHACLIPMore...
ALPINE1789Sail, Schooner View entry for ALPINE in MNL 1900, page 401 MHACLIPMore...
ANN44368Sail, Flat View entry for ANN in MNL 1900, page 404 MHACLIPMore...
ANN62029Sail, Flat View entry for ANN in MNL 1900, page 404 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE67154Sail, Flat View entry for ANNE in MNL 1900, page 406 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE49992Sail, Flat View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 407 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE67145Sail, Flat View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 407 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE102363Sail, Flat View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 407 MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR1023611893, Steam View entry for ARTHUR in MNL 1900, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
ASH80300Sail, Flat View entry for ASH in MNL 1900, page 413 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE62020Sail, Flat View entry for BESSIE in MNL 1900, page 422 MHACLIPMore...
BUD44352Sail, Flat View entry for BUD in MNL 1900, page 431 MHACLIPMore...
CAIRO97230Sail, Flat View entry for CAIRO in MNL 1900, page 434 MHACLIPMore...
CECIL972271890, Steam View entry for CECIL in MNL 1900, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
CELESTIAL62024Sail, Flat View entry for CELESTIAL in MNL 1900, page 439 MHACLIPMore...
COMET102363Sail, Flat View entry for COMET in MNL 1900, page 449 MHACLIPMore...
COUNTESS OF CARRICK43625Sail, Schooner View entry for COUNTESS OF CARRICK in MNL 1900, page 453 MHACLIPMore...
CULZEAN CASTLE78859Sail, Schooner View entry for CULZEAN CASTLE in MNL 1900, page 455 MHACLIPMore...
DESPATCH83516Sail, Schooner View entry for DESPATCH in MNL 1900, page 462 MHACLIPMore...
DIRWEST44367Sail, Flat View entry for DIRWEST in MNL 1900, page 463 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH83501Sail, Flat View entry for EDITH in MNL 1900, page 472 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD83517Sail, Flat View entry for EDWARD in MNL 1900, page 473 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD WHITLEY80299Sail, Flat View entry for EDWARD WHITLEY in MNL 1900, page 473 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA62015Sail, Flat View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1900, page 476 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH44366Sail, Flat View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1900, page 478 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH62004Sail, Flat View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1900, page 478 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH & ANN10482Sail, Flat View entry for ELIZABETH & ANN in MNL 1900, page 479 MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN16417Sail, Flat View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1900, page 480 MHACLIPMore...
ELLESMERE22881Sail, Schooner View entry for ELLESMERE in MNL 1900, page 480 MHACLIPMore...
ELM80285Sail, Flat View entry for ELM in MNL 1900, page 481 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY83510Sail, Schooner View entry for EMILY in MNL 1900, page 483 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY MARY44371Sail, Schooner View entry for EMILY MARY in MNL 1900, page 483 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY MARY67146Sail, Flat View entry for EMILY MARY in MNL 1900, page 483 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY MILLINGTON67160Sail, Schooner View entry for EMILY MILLINGTON in MNL 1900, page 483 MHACLIPMore...
ENERGY56594Sail, Flat View entry for ENERGY in MNL 1900, page 486 MHACLIPMore...
ERNEST49993Sail, Flat View entry for ERNEST in MNL 1900, page 488 MHACLIPMore...
EVA102362Sail, Flat View entry for EVA in MNL 1900, page 491 MHACLIPMore...
EVA LENA80296Sail, Flat View entry for EVA LENA in MNL 1900, page 491 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELSIOR62008Sail, Flat View entry for EXCELSIOR in MNL 1900, page 493 MHACLIPMore...
FAIRY44356Sail, Flat View entry for FAIRY in MNL 1900, page 494 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY52921Sail, Flat View entry for FANNY in MNL 1900, page 496 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY67168Sail, Flat View entry for FANNY in MNL 1900, page 496 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY80295Sail, Flat View entry for FANNY in MNL 1900, page 496 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE97229Sail, Yawl View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1900, page 501 MHACLIPMore...
FOUR BROTHERS67162Sail, Schooner View entry for FOUR BROTHERS in MNL 1900, page 504 MHACLIPMore...
FOX83506Sail, Schooner View entry for FOX in MNL 1900, page 504 MHACLIPMore...
FRANCES MARY49997Sail, Flat View entry for FRANCES MARY in MNL 1900, page 505 MHACLIPMore...
FREDERICK52925Sail, Flat View entry for FREDERICK in MNL 1900, page 506 MHACLIPMore...
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