Ships shown as registered at Malta 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.

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
ADMIRAL BERESFORD1093371906, Steam View entry for ADMIRAL BERESFORD in MNL 1920, page 5 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL BROMLEY1093391906, Steam View entry for ADMIRAL BROMLEY in MNL 1920, page 5 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL DRURY1235151914, Steam View entry for ADMIRAL DRURY in MNL 1920, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL LAMBTON1093381906, Steam View entry for ADMIRAL LAMBTON in MNL 1920, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL LIMPUS1377311916, Steam View entry for ADMIRAL LIMPUS in MNL 1920, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AMY109340Sail, Ketch View entry for AMY in MNL 1920, page 679 MHACLIPMore...
ANATOLIA1377371917, Steam View entry for ANATOLIA in MNL 1920, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ARROW744181878, Steam View entry for ARROW in MNL 1920, page 33 MHACLIPMore...
AURORA1051141897, Steam View entry for AURORA in MNL 1920, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BELLONA1051161897, Steam View entry for BELLONA in MNL 1920, page 54 MHACLIPMore...
BILBROUGH1377431919, Steam View entry for BILBROUGH in MNL 1920, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
BILLITER1235161914, Steam View entry for BILLITER in MNL 1920, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
CERES1051151897, Steam View entry for CERES in MNL 1920, page 99 MHACLIPMore...
CONCETTA876161884, Steam View entry for CONCETTA in MNL 1920, page 125 MHACLIPMore...
DAPHNE1051191898, Steam View entry for DAPHNE in MNL 1920, page 144 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY P1235141914, Steam View entry for EMILY P in MNL 1920, page 182 MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRIZE694991876, Steam View entry for ENTERPRIZE in MNL 1920, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
EUTERPE1093251899, Steam View entry for EUTERPE in MNL 1920, page 193 MHACLIPMore...
FEARNOUGHT87629Sail, Cutter View entry for FEARNOUGHT in MNL 1920, page 774 MHACLIPMore...
FULMINE123508Sail, Cutter View entry for FULMINE in MNL 1920, page 784 MHACLIPMore...
GESU E MARIA123507Sail, Barkantine View entry for GESU E MARIA in MNL 1920, page 792 MHACLIPMore...
GLENEAGLES888641885, Steam View entry for GLENEAGLES in MNL 1920, page 232 MHACLIPMore...
GUISEPPINA939501889, Steam View entry for GUISEPPINA in MNL 1920, page 246 MHACLIPMore...
HAYDEE II78206Sail, Cutter View entry for HAYDEE II in MNL 1920, page 807 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN SMITH137739Sail, Cutter View entry for JOHN SMITH in MNL 1920, page 833 MHACLIPMore...
MAID OF ERIN101537Sail, Cutter View entry for MAID OF ERIN in MNL 1920, page 872 MHACLIPMore...
METILDE835921881, Steam View entry for METILDE in MNL 1920, page 393 MHACLIPMore...
NORINA1015361912, Steam View entry for NORINA in MNL 1920, page 424 MHACLIPMore...
NOTABILE836041883, Steam View entry for NOTABILE in MNL 1920, page 427 MHACLIPMore...
PRINCESS MELITA1015461893, Steam View entry for PRINCESS MELITA in MNL 1920, page 478 MHACLIPMore...
PYLAROS1377381919, Motor View entry for PYLAROS in MNL 1920, page 482 MHACLIPMore...
ROME1235111913, Steam View entry for ROME in MNL 1920, page 505 MHACLIPMore...
SAGA1015401892, Steam View entry for SAGA in MNL 1920, page 515 MHACLIPMore...
SAN GIUSEPPE137740Sail, Fore and A View entry for SAN GIUSEPPE in MNL 1920, page 961 MHACLIPMore...
SANT ANTONIO137741Sail, Schooner View entry for SANT ANTONIO in MNL 1920, page 962 MHACLIPMore...
SANTA MARIA ASSUNTA123513Sail, Schooner View entry for SANTA MARIA ASSUNTA in MNL 1920, page 962 MHACLIPMore...
SERIPHOS990751917, Steam View entry for SERIPHOS in MNL 1920, page 539 MHACLIPMore...
SOPHIE647361874, Steam View entry for SOPHIE in MNL 1920, page 554 MHACLIPMore...
THE BEETLE123509Sail, Cutter View entry for THE BEETLE in MNL 1920, page 695 MHACLIPMore...
THE READY1235021907, Steam View entry for THE READY in MNL 1920, page 491 MHACLIPMore...
UNIONE876181884, Steam View entry for UNIONE in MNL 1920, page 610 MHACLIPMore...
VICTORIA876191886, Steam View entry for VICTORIA in MNL 1920, page 619 MHACLIPMore...
VITTORIA137742Sail, Schooner View entry for VITTORIA in MNL 1920, page 1013 MHACLIPMore...
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