Ships shown as registered at Ardrossan 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.

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
BARON AILSA1431051919, Steam View entry for BARON AILSA in MNL 1920, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BARON ARDROSSAN1182331905, Steam View entry for BARON ARDROSSAN in MNL 1920, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BARON BERWICK1186241917, Steam View entry for BARON BERWICK in MNL 1920, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BARON BLANTYRE1427211919, Steam View entry for BARON BLANTYRE in MNL 1920, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BARON CATHCART1243241917, Steam View entry for BARON CATHCART in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON DOUGLAS1198741919, Steam View entry for BARON DOUGLAS in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON ELCHO1212591919, Steam View entry for BARON ELCHO in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON FAIRLIE1052551898, Steam View entry for BARON FAIRLIE in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON GARIOCH1433171919, Steam View entry for BARON GARIOCH in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON INCHCAPE1357311917, Steam View entry for BARON INCHCAPE in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON JEDBURGH1289611912, Steam View entry for BARON JEDBURGH in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON KELVIN1243491915, Steam View entry for BARON KELVIN in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON MINTO1182391908, Steam View entry for BARON MINTO in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON NAPIER1289561909, Steam View entry for BARON NAPIER in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON POLWARTH1289581911, Steam View entry for BARON POLWARTH in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON RENFREW1289571910, Steam View entry for BARON RENFREW in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BARON SEMPILL1427711919, Steam View entry for BARON SEMPILL in MNL 1920, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BETSY CRAWFORD105259Sail, Cutter View entry for BETSY CRAWFORD in MNL 1920, page 699 MHACLIPMore...
BETTY KERR1357321918, Motor View entry for BETTY KERR in MNL 1920, page 60 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE BELL67500Sail, Smack View entry for BLUE BELL in MNL 1920, page 701 MHACLIPMore...
CERES63453Sail, Sloop View entry for CERES in MNL 1920, page 716 MHACLIPMore...
CUMBRAE79428Sail, Smack View entry for CUMBRAE in MNL 1920, page 731 MHACLIPMore...
DASHER97564Sail, Smack View entry for DASHER in MNL 1920, page 736 MHACLIPMore...
DUCHESS771901917, Motor View entry for DUCHESS in MNL 1920, page 161 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH92872Sail, Smack View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1920, page 756 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH HENDRY60613Sail, Smack View entry for ELIZABETH HENDRY in MNL 1920, page 756 MHACLIPMore...
EUPHEMIA860631883, Motor View entry for EUPHEMIA in MNL 1920, page 192 MHACLIPMore...
FAIRY DELL105253Sail, Smack View entry for FAIRY DELL in MNL 1920, page 772 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA MURCHIE67491Sail, Smack View entry for FLORA MURCHIE in MNL 1920, page 777 MHACLIPMore...
GLEN SANNOX77189Sail, Smack View entry for GLEN SANNOX in MNL 1920, page 794 MHACLIPMore...
GLENCLOY1052511895, Steam View entry for GLENCLOY in MNL 1920, page 232 MHACLIPMore...
HILDA117526Sail, Cutter View entry for HILDA in MNL 1920, page 811 MHACLIPMore...
HOMER1357281915, Steam View entry for HOMER in MNL 1920, page 269 MHACLIPMore...
ISLE OF MAY1022081902, Steam View entry for ISLE OF MAY in MNL 1920, page 290 MHACLIPMore...
JOFFRE1357301916, Steam View entry for JOFFRE in MNL 1920, page 301 MHACLIPMore...
KINABALU1357271914, Steam View entry for KINABALU in MNL 1920, page 320 MHACLIPMore...
LINCOLN934101904, Steam View entry for LINCOLN in MNL 1920, page 347 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZY77183Sail, Smack View entry for LIZZY in MNL 1920, page 861 MHACLIPMore...
LOCH IORSA73468Sail, Schooner View entry for LOCH IORSA in MNL 1920, page 861 MHACLIPMore...
MAGGIE77182Sail, Smack View entry for MAGGIE in MNL 1920, page 870 MHACLIPMore...
MAGGIE77186Sail, Smack View entry for MAGGIE in MNL 1920, page 870 MHACLIPMore...
MARGERY674961916, Motor View entry for MARGERY in MNL 1920, page 377 MHACLIPMore...
MARGRET DEWAR67498Sail, Ketch View entry for MARGRET DEWAR in MNL 1920, page 875 MHACLIPMore...
MARY KERR86068Sail, Smack View entry for MARY KERR in MNL 1920, page 884 MHACLIPMore...
MARY STEWART60618Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY STEWART in MNL 1920, page 885 MHACLIPMore...
MARY TAYLOR79421Sail, Smack View entry for MARY TAYLOR in MNL 1920, page 885 MHACLIPMore...
NIRVANA1182361918, Motor View entry for NIRVANA in MNL 1920, page 422 MHACLIPMore...
ONWARD86065Sail, Smack View entry for ONWARD in MNL 1920, page 918 MHACLIPMore...
ROBINA1357261914, Steam View entry for ROBINA in MNL 1920, page 503 MHACLIPMore...
SUMMER BREEZE118231Sail, Lugger View entry for SUMMER BREEZE in MNL 1920, page 983 MHACLIPMore...
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