Ships shown as registered at Yarmouth, NS in the Mercantile Navy List for 1900

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
A D'E97034Sail, Schooner View entry for A D'E in MNL 1900, page 388 MHACLIPMore...
ALAMEDA886001887, Steam View entry for ALAMEDA in MNL 1900, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS1030551898, Steam View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1900, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ALDINE88595Sail, Brigantine View entry for ALDINE in MNL 1900, page 396 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT80640Sail, Schooner View entry for ALERT in MNL 1900, page 396 MHACLIPMore...
ALFARATA71007Sail, Schooner View entry for ALFARATA in MNL 1900, page 397 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE75612Sail, Schooner View entry for ALICE in MNL 1900, page 398 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE MAY90660Sail, Schooner View entry for ALICE MAY in MNL 1900, page 399 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA714131887, Steam View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1900, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ANCENIS99432Sail, Ship View entry for ANCENIS in MNL 1900, page 403 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE75888Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 407 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE103061Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 407 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE D80627Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE D in MNL 1900, page 408 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE M BELL80647Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE M BELL in MNL 1900, page 408 MHACLIPMore...
ANNINA90655Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNINA in MNL 1900, page 409 MHACLIPMore...
ARIZONA71030Sail, Schooner View entry for ARIZONA in MNL 1900, page 412 MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR71032Sail, Schooner View entry for ARTHUR in MNL 1900, page 413 MHACLIPMore...
AURORE94980Sail, Schooner View entry for AURORE in MNL 1900, page 415 MHACLIPMore...
BALD EAGLE74308Sail, Schooner View entry for BALD EAGLE in MNL 1900, page 417 MHACLIPMore...
BALDWIN97039Sail, Barkantine View entry for BALDWIN in MNL 1900, page 417 MHACLIPMore...
BELMONT98630Sail, Barque View entry for BELMONT in MNL 1900, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA97028Sail, Schooner View entry for BERTHA in MNL 1900, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA GRAY90899Sail, Brig View entry for BERTHA GRAY in MNL 1900, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA KELLEY90900Sail, Sloop View entry for BERTHA KELLEY in MNL 1900, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE94971Sail, Schooner View entry for BESSIE in MNL 1900, page 422 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE MAY88267Sail, Schooner View entry for BESSIE MAY in MNL 1900, page 423 MHACLIPMore...
BLACK PRINCE103701Sail, Schooner View entry for BLACK PRINCE in MNL 1900, page 424 MHACLIPMore...
BLACK-BIRD57109Sail, Schooner View entry for BLACK-BIRD in MNL 1900, page 424 MHACLIPMore...
BOSTON985851892, Steam View entry for BOSTON in MNL 1900, page 45 MHACLIPMore...
BOSTON MARINE85545Sail, Brigantine View entry for BOSTON MARINE in MNL 1900, page 426 MHACLIPMore...
BOWMAN B LAW90074Sail, Barque View entry for BOWMAN B LAW in MNL 1900, page 427 MHACLIPMore...
BRENTON74320Sail, Schooner View entry for BRENTON in MNL 1900, page 428 MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH EAGLE52029Sail, Schooner View entry for BRITISH EAGLE in MNL 1900, page 429 MHACLIPMore...
CARRIE MAY103051Sail, Schooner View entry for CARRIE MAY in MNL 1900, page 438 MHACLIPMore...
CELESTE BURRILL90875Sail, Ship View entry for CELESTE BURRILL in MNL 1900, page 439 MHACLIPMore...
CHLORUS69217Sail, Schooner View entry for CHLORUS in MNL 1900, page 444 MHACLIPMore...
CIRCASSIAN85536Sail, Schooner View entry for CIRCASSIAN in MNL 1900, page 445 MHACLIPMore...
CIVILIAN94977Sail, Schooner View entry for CIVILIAN in MNL 1900, page 446 MHACLIPMore...
COLUMBIA37992Sail, Schooner View entry for COLUMBIA in MNL 1900, page 449 MHACLIPMore...
CONDOR74331Sail, Schooner View entry for CONDOR in MNL 1900, page 450 MHACLIPMore...
COUP D'ETAT90650Sail, Sloop View entry for COUP D'ETAT in MNL 1900, page 453 MHACLIPMore...
CYGNET57153Sail, Schooner View entry for CYGNET in MNL 1900, page 456 MHACLIPMore...
DAVID SPRAGUE88403Sail, Schooner View entry for DAVID SPRAGUE in MNL 1900, page 460 MHACLIPMore...
DEFENDER103063Sail, Schooner View entry for DEFENDER in MNL 1900, page 461 MHACLIPMore...
DIPLOMA66679Sail, Schooner View entry for DIPLOMA in MNL 1900, page 463 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN1030681896, Steam View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1900, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
DOVE75711Sail, Schooner View entry for DOVE in MNL 1900, page 466 MHACLIPMore...
EDDIE C103053Sail, Schooner View entry for EDDIE C in MNL 1900, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
EDDIE J103066Sail, Schooner View entry for EDDIE J in MNL 1900, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH M103060Sail, Schooner View entry for EDITH M in MNL 1900, page 472 MHACLIPMore...
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