Ships shown as registered at Launceston, Tasmania 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
ACTIVE61038Sail, Cutter View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1900, page 390 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES1017721894, Steam View entry for AGNES in MNL 1900, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION61069Sail, Ketch View entry for ALBION in MNL 1900, page 395 MHACLIPMore...
AMY733351898, Steam View entry for AMY in MNL 1900, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL61060Sail, Ketch View entry for ARIEL in MNL 1900, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
BELLA BEATON79264Sail, Cutter View entry for BELLA BEATON in MNL 1900, page 420 MHACLIPMore...
BEREAN73524Sail, Ketch View entry for BEREAN in MNL 1900, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
BROTHERS61042Sail, Cutter View entry for BROTHERS in MNL 1900, page 430 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE74668Sail, Ketch View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1900, page 438 MHACLIPMore...
CENTENNIAL935641888, Steam View entry for CENTENNIAL in MNL 1900, page 63 MHACLIPMore...
CLYTIE78066Sail, Ketch View entry for CLYTIE in MNL 1900, page 448 MHACLIPMore...
COLLEEN BAWN57522Sail, Ketch View entry for COLLEEN BAWN in MNL 1900, page 448 MHACLIPMore...
CORINNA792521882, Steam View entry for CORINNA in MNL 1900, page 81 MHACLIPMore...
CORIO746461884, Steam View entry for CORIO in MNL 1900, page 81 MHACLIPMore...
CORONELLA57534Sail, Ketch View entry for CORONELLA in MNL 1900, page 452 MHACLIPMore...
DAUNTLESS78060Sail, Ketch View entry for DAUNTLESS in MNL 1900, page 459 MHACLIPMore...
DE WITT57559Sail, Ketch View entry for DE WITT in MNL 1900, page 460 MHACLIPMore...
DEVONPORT77689Sail, Schooner View entry for DEVONPORT in MNL 1900, page 462 MHACLIPMore...
DORSET792571896, Steam View entry for DORSET in MNL 1900, page 99 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE780681885, Steam View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1900, page 108 MHACLIPMore...
EDINA935171897, Steam View entry for EDINA in MNL 1900, page 109 MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS OF INDIA733581884, Steam View entry for EMPRESS OF INDIA in MNL 1900, page 116 MHACLIPMore...
EMU79277Sail, Ketch View entry for EMU in MNL 1900, page 485 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS61050Sail, Cutter View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1900, page 493 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS792881889, Steam View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1900, page 124 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA MCDONALD79298Sail, Ketch View entry for FLORA MCDONALD in MNL 1900, page 500 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE79255Sail, Cutter View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1900, page 500 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE MAUD79285Sail, Ketch View entry for FLORENCE MAUD in MNL 1900, page 501 MHACLIPMore...
FOAM79280Sail, Ketch View entry for FOAM in MNL 1900, page 503 MHACLIPMore...
FURNEAUX78067Sail, Cutter View entry for FURNEAUX in MNL 1900, page 507 MHACLIPMore...
GLYDE61058Sail, Ketch View entry for GLYDE in MNL 1900, page 518 MHACLIPMore...
H J H57582Sail, Ketch View entry for H J H in MNL 1900, page 523 MHACLIPMore...
JANE31850Sail, Schooner View entry for JANE in MNL 1900, page 549 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN LEWIS61072Sail, Schooner View entry for JOHN LEWIS in MNL 1900, page 555 MHACLIPMore...
KOH-I-NOOR16980Sail, Barque View entry for KOH-I-NOOR in MNL 1900, page 567 MHACLIPMore...
LADY BRASSEY101774Sail, Ketch View entry for LADY BRASSEY in MNL 1900, page 569 MHACLIPMore...
LEMAEL79300Sail, Schooner View entry for LEMAEL in MNL 1900, page 574 MHACLIPMore...
LINDA79283Sail, Ketch View entry for LINDA in MNL 1900, page 579 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZIE TAYLOR79299Sail, Ketch View entry for LIZZIE TAYLOR in MNL 1900, page 581 MHACLIPMore...
MARINER52430Sail, Schooner View entry for MARINER in MNL 1900, page 599 MHACLIPMore...
MINNIE61033Sail, Schooner View entry for MINNIE in MNL 1900, page 617 MHACLIPMore...
NAUTILUS78053Sail, Cutter View entry for NAUTILUS in MNL 1900, page 626 MHACLIPMore...
NELLIE792901890, Steam View entry for NELLIE in MNL 1900, page 248 MHACLIPMore...
NO 4 HOPPER BARGE79543Sail View entry for NO 4 HOPPER BARGE in MNL 1900, page 633 MHACLIPMore...
NORTH STAR73515Sail, Cutter View entry for NORTH STAR in MNL 1900, page 632 MHACLIPMore...
OLYMPAS32260Sail, Ketch View entry for OLYMPAS in MNL 1900, page 637 MHACLIPMore...
ONWARD79282Sail, Ketch View entry for ONWARD in MNL 1900, page 638 MHACLIPMore...
PATEENA792621884, Steam View entry for PATEENA in MNL 1900, page 270 MHACLIPMore...
PEARL79274Sail, Ketch View entry for PEARL in MNL 1900, page 645 MHACLIPMore...
PENGUIN32256Sail, Schooner View entry for PENGUIN in MNL 1900, page 646 MHACLIPMore...
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