Ships shown as registered at Lowestoft in the Mercantile Navy List for 1910

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
ACACIA125882Sail, Ketch View entry for ACACIA in MNL 1910, page 565 MHACLIPMore...
ACHILLES79001Sail, Ketch View entry for ACHILLES in MNL 1910, page 565 MHACLIPMore...
ACME104706Sail, Dandy View entry for ACME in MNL 1910, page 565 MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVE122754Sail, Ketch View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1910, page 565 MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVE1227861906, Steam View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1910, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVITY122763Sail, Ketch View entry for ACTIVITY in MNL 1910, page 566 MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE1193861905, Steam View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1910, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE125888Sail, Ketch View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1910, page 568 MHACLIPMore...
ADVENTURE1108101899, Steam View entry for ADVENTURE in MNL 1910, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AFRIU124436Sail, Cutter View entry for AFRIU in MNL 1910, page 568 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES WESTON1150431902, Steam View entry for AGNES WESTON in MNL 1910, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
AJAX1286351909, Steam View entry for AJAX in MNL 1910, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS1174891903, Steam View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1910, page 10 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION106452Sail, Ketch View entry for ALBION in MNL 1910, page 572 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT1244281907, Steam View entry for ALERT in MNL 1910, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT125892Sail, Ketch View entry for ALERT in MNL 1910, page 572 MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED1258521907, Steam View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1910, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE117454Sail, Dandy View entry for ALICE in MNL 1910, page 574 MHACLIPMore...
AMETHYST115006Sail, Ketch View entry for AMETHYST in MNL 1910, page 578 MHACLIPMore...
ANCHOR STAR1276141908, Steam View entry for ANCHOR STAR in MNL 1910, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ANGELINA1286091908, Steam View entry for ANGELINA in MNL 1910, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE ETHEL127623Sail, Ketch View entry for ANNIE ETHEL in MNL 1910, page 583 MHACLIPMore...
ARAB1276281908, Steam View entry for ARAB in MNL 1910, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ARBOR VITAE128613Sail, Ketch View entry for ARBOR VITAE in MNL 1910, page 586 MHACLIPMore...
ARIMATHEA1258841907, Steam View entry for ARIMATHEA in MNL 1910, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARIZONA85230Sail, Dandy View entry for ARIZONA in MNL 1910, page 587 MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR WILLIAM127587Sail, Ketch View entry for ARTHUR WILLIAM in MNL 1910, page 589 MHACLIPMore...
ASPIRE1174581903, Steam View entry for ASPIRE in MNL 1910, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
ATALANTA888951884, Steam View entry for ATALANTA in MNL 1910, page 35 MHACLIPMore...
ATHENA124425Sail, Ketch View entry for ATHENA in MNL 1910, page 590 MHACLIPMore...
AU FAIT1286411909, Steam View entry for AU FAIT in MNL 1910, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
AU RETOUR1244001906, Steam View entry for AU RETOUR in MNL 1910, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
AU REVOIR1227841906, Steam View entry for AU REVOIR in MNL 1910, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
AUDAX87179Sail, Ketch View entry for AUDAX in MNL 1910, page 590 MHACLIPMore...
AULD LANG SYNE1227791906, Steam View entry for AULD LANG SYNE in MNL 1910, page 37 MHACLIPMore...
BADEN POWELL1108221900, Steam View entry for BADEN POWELL in MNL 1910, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
BARBARA127590Sail, Cutter View entry for BARBARA in MNL 1910, page 594 MHACLIPMore...
BARNARDO1286271909, Steam View entry for BARNARDO in MNL 1910, page 44 MHACLIPMore...
BEACONSFIELD82389Sail, Dandy View entry for BEACONSFIELD in MNL 1910, page 595 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE1193951905, Steam View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1910, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BELLE97904Sail, Dandy View entry for BELLE in MNL 1910, page 597 MHACLIPMore...
BENEFACTOR91746Sail, Dandy View entry for BENEFACTOR in MNL 1910, page 598 MHACLIPMore...
BERRY HEAD1110981903, Steam View entry for BERRY HEAD in MNL 1910, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
BERYL117497Sail, Ketch View entry for BERYL in MNL 1910, page 599 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE122774Sail, Ketch View entry for BESSIE in MNL 1910, page 599 MHACLIPMore...
BETHEL95698Sail, Lugger View entry for BETHEL in MNL 1910, page 600 MHACLIPMore...
BETTER LUCK92938Sail, Dandy View entry for BETTER LUCK in MNL 1910, page 600 MHACLIPMore...
BITTERN95700Sail, Dandy View entry for BITTERN in MNL 1910, page 601 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE BELL109560Sail, Ketch View entry for BLUE BELL in MNL 1910, page 603 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE DRAGON91714Sail, Yawl View entry for BLUE DRAGON in MNL 1910, page 603 MHACLIPMore...
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