Ships shown as registered at Guernsey in the Mercantile Navy List for 1870

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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ADELAIDE26914Sail View entry for ADELAIDE in MNL 1870, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL NELSON2928Sail View entry for ADMIRAL NELSON in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AGENORA50214Sail View entry for AGENORA in MNL 1870, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
AGILIS21089Sail View entry for AGILIS in MNL 1870, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
ALARM14825Sail View entry for ALARM in MNL 1870, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION14860Sail View entry for ALBION in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRA50210Sail View entry for ALEXANDRA in MNL 1870, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED18759Sail View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1870, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE25030Sail View entry for ALICE in MNL 1870, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ALIWAL14833Sail View entry for ALIWAL in MNL 1870, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
ANGLO NORMAN56373Sail View entry for ANGLO NORMAN in MNL 1870, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ANGLO SAXON56374Sail View entry for ANGLO SAXON in MNL 1870, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ANN14840Sail View entry for ANN in MNL 1870, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA MARIA9677Sail View entry for ANNA MARIA in MNL 1870, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ARGO43848Sail View entry for ARGO in MNL 1870, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
AURORA14849Sail View entry for AURORA in MNL 1870, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
BARRANCA63478Sail View entry for BARRANCA in MNL 1870, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA18760Sail View entry for BERTHA in MNL 1870, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA CARRINGTON56387Sail View entry for BERTHA CARRINGTON in MNL 1870, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE SAINTY29835Sail View entry for CAROLINE SAINTY in MNL 1870, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
CARRINGTON60579Sail View entry for CARRINGTON in MNL 1870, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
CASKET56390Sail View entry for CASKET in MNL 1870, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
CHANNEL QUEEN44944Sail View entry for CHANNEL QUEEN in MNL 1870, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE14819Sail View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1870, page 69 MHACLIPMore...
CHEVAL DE TROIE50218Sail View entry for CHEVAL DE TROIE in MNL 1870, page 70 MHACLIPMore...
CONCORDIA14814Sail View entry for CONCORDIA in MNL 1870, page 80 MHACLIPMore...
CONQUEROR21082Sail View entry for CONQUEROR in MNL 1870, page 80 MHACLIPMore...
CONTEST50216Sail View entry for CONTEST in MNL 1870, page 81 MHACLIPMore...
COSTA RICA PACKET29847Sail View entry for COSTA RICA PACKET in MNL 1870, page 84 MHACLIPMore...
COURIER9528Sail View entry for COURIER in MNL 1870, page 84 MHACLIPMore...
CRESCENT14812Sail View entry for CRESCENT in MNL 1870, page 85 MHACLIPMore...
CRESTED WAVE56378Sail View entry for CRESTED WAVE in MNL 1870, page 85 MHACLIPMore...
DANUBE41154Sail View entry for DANUBE in MNL 1870, page 89 MHACLIPMore...
DON COLINO14823Sail View entry for DON COLINO in MNL 1870, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
DOUGLAS14852Sail View entry for DOUGLAS in MNL 1870, page 98 MHACLIPMore...
DREADNOUGHT26478Sail View entry for DREADNOUGHT in MNL 1870, page 99 MHACLIPMore...
DUBLIN LASS14821Sail View entry for DUBLIN LASS in MNL 1870, page 99 MHACLIPMore...
DURHAM PACKET19467Sail View entry for DURHAM PACKET in MNL 1870, page 101 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE14880Sail View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1870, page 104 MHACLIPMore...
EDINA56382Sail View entry for EDINA in MNL 1870, page 105 MHACLIPMore...
EDISSA29850Sail View entry for EDISSA in MNL 1870, page 105 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD23677Sail View entry for EDWARD in MNL 1870, page 106 MHACLIPMore...
EFFORT25333Sail View entry for EFFORT in MNL 1870, page 107 MHACLIPMore...
ELEONORE26488Sail View entry for ELEONORE in MNL 1870, page 109 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA HUNTER14042Sail View entry for ELIZA HUNTER in MNL 1870, page 111 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH14832Sail View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1870, page 113 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH & CICELY18603Sail View entry for ELIZABETH & CICELY in MNL 1870, page 115 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH YOUNG14584Sail View entry for ELIZABETH YOUNG in MNL 1870, page 115 MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN13933Sail View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1870, page 116 MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN14847Sail View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1870, page 116 MHACLIPMore...
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