Ships shown as registered at Peterhead in the Mercantile Navy List for 1890

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
ALBION58889Sail, Schooner View entry for ALBION in MNL 1890, page 279 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT19545Sail, Brig View entry for ALERT in MNL 1890, page 280 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE75259Sail, Dandy View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1890, page 292 MHACLIPMore...
BALTIC65353Sail, Schooner View entry for BALTIC in MNL 1890, page 303 MHACLIPMore...
BATHIA89106Sail, Smack View entry for BATHIA in MNL 1890, page 304 MHACLIPMore...
BESSY WALKER89103Sail, Smack View entry for BESSY WALKER in MNL 1890, page 309 MHACLIPMore...
CHRISTIAN89115Sail, Lugger View entry for CHRISTIAN in MNL 1890, page 333 MHACLIPMore...
DAYBREAK75258Sail, Dandy View entry for DAYBREAK in MNL 1890, page 350 MHACLIPMore...
EBENEZER65352Sail, Barkantine View entry for EBENEZER in MNL 1890, page 360 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE553451867, Steam View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1890, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA93001Sail, Lugger View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1890, page 366 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH89105Sail, Smack View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1890, page 368 MHACLIPMore...
EMIGRANT93003Sail, Lugger View entry for EMIGRANT in MNL 1890, page 374 MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE89108Sail, Lugger View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1890, page 379 MHACLIPMore...
FORBESES89109Sail, Dandy View entry for FORBESES in MNL 1890, page 397 MHACLIPMore...
FORWARD75248Sail, Schooner View entry for FORWARD in MNL 1890, page 398 MHACLIPMore...
GERMANIA89101Sail, Schooner View entry for GERMANIA in MNL 1890, page 409 MHACLIPMore...
GLEANER75255Sail, Smack View entry for GLEANER in MNL 1890, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
HELEN HUTCHISON65355Sail, Schooner View entry for HELEN HUTCHISON in MNL 1890, page 426 MHACLIPMore...
HERALD89114Sail, Lugger View entry for HERALD in MNL 1890, page 429 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE653511873, Steam View entry for HOPE in MNL 1890, page 120 MHACLIPMore...
INDUSTRY65347Sail, Schooner View entry for INDUSTRY in MNL 1890, page 439 MHACLIPMore...
ISABELLA89107Sail, Lugger View entry for ISABELLA in MNL 1890, page 442 MHACLIPMore...
JAMES19090Sail, Schooner View entry for JAMES in MNL 1890, page 445 MHACLIPMore...
JANE & ISABELLA28998Sail, Schooner View entry for JANE & ISABELLA in MNL 1890, page 449 MHACLIPMore...
JANET56599Sail, Brig View entry for JANET in MNL 1890, page 449 MHACLIPMore...
LADY AGNES55484Sail, Barque View entry for LADY AGNES in MNL 1890, page 468 MHACLIPMore...
LADY CECILIA HAY75254Sail, Schooner View entry for LADY CECILIA HAY in MNL 1890, page 468 MHACLIPMore...
MAGGIE & HELEN52908Sail, Schooner View entry for MAGGIE & HELEN in MNL 1890, page 493 MHACLIPMore...
MARY89110Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY in MNL 1890, page 505 MHACLIPMore...
MINNIE75253Sail, Schooner View entry for MINNIE in MNL 1890, page 522 MHACLIPMore...
NORTH SEA89102Sail, Dandy View entry for NORTH SEA in MNL 1890, page 537 MHACLIPMore...
ONWARD21689Sail, Schooner View entry for ONWARD in MNL 1890, page 543 MHACLIPMore...
PARAGON65356Sail, Schooner View entry for PARAGON in MNL 1890, page 548 MHACLIPMore...
PERSEVERANCE19548Sail, Barque View entry for PERSEVERANCE in MNL 1890, page 552 MHACLIPMore...
PRIDE O'SCOTLAND654131875, Steam View entry for PRIDE O'SCOTLAND in MNL 1890, page 198 MHACLIPMore...
REGALIA53322Sail, Dandy View entry for REGALIA in MNL 1890, page 571 MHACLIPMore...
RENOWN65365Sail, Schooner View entry for RENOWN in MNL 1890, page 573 MHACLIPMore...
RESOLUTE75250Sail, Schooner View entry for RESOLUTE in MNL 1890, page 573 MHACLIPMore...
SAMPSON89113Sail, Lugger View entry for SAMPSON in MNL 1890, page 590 MHACLIPMore...
SWIFT4518Sail, Ketch View entry for SWIFT in MNL 1890, page 619 MHACLIPMore...
TRAVELLER58875Sail, Schooner View entry for TRAVELLER in MNL 1890, page 630 MHACLIPMore...
TULLOCHGORUM65357Sail, Schooner View entry for TULLOCHGORUM in MNL 1890, page 632 MHACLIPMore...
VELOCIPEDE58885Sail, Smack View entry for VELOCIPEDE in MNL 1890, page 638 MHACLIPMore...
VY KING18141Sail, Schooner View entry for VY KING in MNL 1890, page 646 MHACLIPMore...
WELCOME HOME89111Sail, Smack View entry for WELCOME HOME in MNL 1890, page 652 MHACLIPMore...
WELCOME HOME93002Sail, Schooner View entry for WELCOME HOME in MNL 1890, page 652 MHACLIPMore...
WINDWARD275271877, Steam View entry for WINDWARD in MNL 1890, page 264 MHACLIPMore...
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