Ships shown as registered at Liverpool, NS in the Mercantile Navy List for 1930

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
AID970471891, Steam View entry for AID in MNL 1930, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT REVILLON1416451922, Motor View entry for ALBERT REVILLON in MNL 1930, page 608 MHACLIPMore...
AMERITE1225791916, Motor View entry for AMERITE in MNL 1930, page 612 MHACLIPMore...
ANGOLA85482Sail, Schooner View entry for ANGOLA in MNL 1930, page 881 MHACLIPMore...
ANTICOSTI II1220301907, Steam View entry for ANTICOSTI II in MNL 1930, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
BROOKLYN111697Sail, Schooner View entry for BROOKLYN in MNL 1930, page 908 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES L1416461924, Motor View entry for CHARLES L in MNL 1930, page 645 MHACLIPMore...
CYGNET1118771903, Steam View entry for CYGNET in MNL 1930, page 139 MHACLIPMore...
DAISY VAUGHN90427Sail, Schooner View entry for DAISY VAUGHN in MNL 1930, page 938 MHACLIPMore...
DOROTHY & AUDREY1416481925, Motor View entry for DOROTHY & AUDREY in MNL 1930, page 665 MHACLIPMore...
ELNORA T BONNEY1163531925, Motor View entry for ELNORA T BONNEY in MNL 1930, page 672 MHACLIPMore...
EVELYN DAWSON1408781919, Motor View entry for EVELYN DAWSON in MNL 1930, page 678 MHACLIPMore...
FREDONA97046Sail, Schooner View entry for FREDONA in MNL 1930, page 983 MHACLIPMore...
GENERAL PAU140873Sail, Schooner View entry for GENERAL PAU in MNL 1930, page 991 MHACLIPMore...
GORDON T TIBBO140871Sail, Schooner View entry for GORDON T TIBBO in MNL 1930, page 999 MHACLIPMore...
HATTIE M1302421910, Motor View entry for HATTIE M in MNL 1930, page 700 MHACLIPMore...
HY D DAVIS1220261907, Motor View entry for HY D DAVIS in MNL 1930, page 703 MHACLIPMore...
I WONDER Y1305941920, Motor View entry for I WONDER Y in MNL 1930, page 707 MHACLIPMore...
IVIZA1260401910, Motor View entry for IVIZA in MNL 1930, page 712 MHACLIPMore...
J C DAKIN75767Sail, Schooner View entry for J C DAKIN in MNL 1930, page 1029 MHACLIPMore...
JERRY D1381951917, Motor View entry for JERRY D in MNL 1930, page 716 MHACLIPMore...
JERRY L NICKERSON1416491928, Motor View entry for JERRY L NICKERSON in MNL 1930, page 716 MHACLIPMore...
KATHLEEN1260311907, Steam View entry for KATHLEEN in MNL 1930, page 288 MHACLIPMore...
LOUISA A116583Sail, Schooner View entry for LOUISA A in MNL 1930, page 1071 MHACLIPMore...
MIRIAM F111700Sail, Schooner View entry for MIRIAM F in MNL 1930, page 1106 MHACLIPMore...
OLEARYLEE1312091915, Steam View entry for OLEARYLEE in MNL 1930, page 402 MHACLIPMore...
ONLY SON61916Sail, Schooner View entry for ONLY SON in MNL 1930, page 1131 MHACLIPMore...
ORESSA103194Sail, Schooner View entry for ORESSA in MNL 1930, page 1132 MHACLIPMore...
P W D NO 71302491912, Steam View entry for P W D NO 7 in MNL 1930, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
PANTHA1380371919, Motor View entry for PANTHA in MNL 1930, page 782 MHACLIPMore...
PARTNER1408741919, Motor View entry for PARTNER in MNL 1930, page 782 MHACLIPMore...
PEKIN1073281912, Steam View entry for PEKIN in MNL 1930, page 418 MHACLIPMore...
PEPPERELL130246Sail View entry for PEPPERELL in MNL 1930, page 1143 MHACLIPMore...
PERCY C126037Sail, Schooner View entry for PERCY C in MNL 1930, page 1143 MHACLIPMore...
RONA1123481903, Steam View entry for RONA in MNL 1930, page 465 MHACLIPMore...
SARAH D61907Sail, Schooner View entry for SARAH D in MNL 1930, page 1183 MHACLIPMore...
SEA HOUND51969Sail, Schooner View entry for SEA HOUND in MNL 1930, page 1186 MHACLIPMore...
STELLA83500Sail, Schooner View entry for STELLA in MNL 1930, page 1201 MHACLIPMore...
THELMA B1222361919, Motor View entry for THELMA B in MNL 1930, page 837 MHACLIPMore...
TRAWLER1416471925, Motor View entry for TRAWLER in MNL 1930, page 842 MHACLIPMore...
WILLIAM MELBOURNE133900Sail, Schooner View entry for WILLIAM MELBOURNE in MNL 1930, page 1247 MHACLIPMore...
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