Ships shown as registered at Bridgwater 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
A 11051751899, Steam View entry for A 1 in MNL 1920, page 1 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA785591905, Steam View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1920, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE CHRISTIAN76819Sail, Ketch View entry for ANNIE CHRISTIAN in MNL 1920, page 683 MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR74713Sail, Ketch View entry for ARTHUR in MNL 1920, page 687 MHACLIPMore...
AURORA77357Sail, Ketch View entry for AURORA in MNL 1920, page 690 MHACLIPMore...
BONITA1081561897, Steam View entry for BONITA in MNL 1920, page 66 MHACLIPMore...
BULL DOG497791888, Steam View entry for BULL DOG in MNL 1920, page 79 MHACLIPMore...
CHAMPION10814Sail, Ketch View entry for CHAMPION in MNL 1920, page 716 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES10940Sail, Schooner View entry for CHARLES in MNL 1920, page 717 MHACLIPMore...
CLAREEN86521Sail, Ketch View entry for CLAREEN in MNL 1920, page 721 MHACLIPMore...
CORONELLA72454Sail, Schooner View entry for CORONELLA in MNL 1920, page 727 MHACLIPMore...
DAVID10851Sail, Ketch View entry for DAVID in MNL 1920, page 736 MHACLIPMore...
DEVON681351892, Steam View entry for DEVON in MNL 1920, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH111392Sail, Ketch View entry for EDITH in MNL 1920, page 750 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA56581Sail, Dandy View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1920, page 755 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH10886Sail, Ketch View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1920, page 756 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH ANNE10913Sail, Ketch View entry for ELIZABETH ANNE in MNL 1920, page 756 MHACLIPMore...
EMMA60581Sail, Ketch View entry for EMMA in MNL 1920, page 761 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS27880Sail, Ketch View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1920, page 770 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY JANE10941Sail, Ketch View entry for FANNY JANE in MNL 1920, page 773 MHACLIPMore...
FLYING FOAM43846Sail, Schooner View entry for FLYING FOAM in MNL 1920, page 779 MHACLIPMore...
GOOD INTENT17131Sail, Sloop View entry for GOOD INTENT in MNL 1920, page 796 MHACLIPMore...
INDUSTRY60577Sail, Schooner View entry for INDUSTRY in MNL 1920, page 819 MHACLIPMore...
J MILTON65317Sail, Ketch View entry for J MILTON in MNL 1920, page 826 MHACLIPMore...
JANE26713Sail, Ketch View entry for JANE in MNL 1920, page 828 MHACLIPMore...
JULIA47304Sail, Ketch View entry for JULIA in MNL 1920, page 835 MHACLIPMore...
JULIA1113931904, Steam View entry for JULIA in MNL 1920, page 306 MHACLIPMore...
LILLA56689Sail, Schooner View entry for LILLA in MNL 1920, page 856 MHACLIPMore...
MARIAN56370Sail, Ketch View entry for MARIAN in MNL 1920, page 876 MHACLIPMore...
MARIE EUGENIE81531Sail, Ketch View entry for MARIE EUGENIE in MNL 1920, page 877 MHACLIPMore...
MARY18967Sail, Ketch View entry for MARY in MNL 1920, page 880 MHACLIPMore...
MERIDIAN20663Sail, Ketch View entry for MERIDIAN in MNL 1920, page 890 MHACLIPMore...
NEW DESIGN62979Sail, Schooner View entry for NEW DESIGN in MNL 1920, page 907 MHACLIPMore...
NORAH56365Sail, Ketch View entry for NORAH in MNL 1920, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
ORESTES91802Sail, Ketch View entry for ORESTES in MNL 1920, page 919 MHACLIPMore...
PALACE10887Sail, Ketch View entry for PALACE in MNL 1920, page 923 MHACLIPMore...
SARAH68208Sail, Smack View entry for SARAH in MNL 1920, page 962 MHACLIPMore...
SEVERN56363Sail, Ketch View entry for SEVERN in MNL 1920, page 969 MHACLIPMore...
STAUNCH62973Sail, Sloop View entry for STAUNCH in MNL 1920, page 981 MHACLIPMore...
SUNBEAM99532Sail, Trow View entry for SUNBEAM in MNL 1920, page 983 MHACLIPMore...
SUNSHINE111391Sail, Ketch View entry for SUNSHINE in MNL 1920, page 984 MHACLIPMore...
TENDER724521896, Steam View entry for TENDER in MNL 1920, page 585 MHACLIPMore...
THOMASINE & MARY19226Sail, Ketch View entry for THOMASINE & MARY in MNL 1920, page 995 MHACLIPMore...
TWO BROTHERS56369Sail, Ketch View entry for TWO BROTHERS in MNL 1920, page 1002 MHACLIPMore...
VICTOR724571893, Steam View entry for VICTOR in MNL 1920, page 618 MHACLIPMore...
WAVE56367Sail, Ketch View entry for WAVE in MNL 1920, page 1018 MHACLIPMore...
WELSH PRINCE653041904, Steam View entry for WELSH PRINCE in MNL 1920, page 643 MHACLIPMore...
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