Ships shown as registered at St Andrews, NB in the Mercantile Navy List for 1915

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
ADA92517Sail, Schooner View entry for ADA in MNL 1915, page 656 MHACLIPMore...
ADDIE B103124Sail, Sloop View entry for ADDIE B in MNL 1915, page 657 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL TOGO116965Sail, Sloop View entry for ADMIRAL TOGO in MNL 1915, page 657 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT122243Sail, Schooner View entry for ALERT in MNL 1915, page 662 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE J1337861913, Motor View entry for ALICE J in MNL 1915, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA1220471906, Motor View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1915, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE & LILLIE103991Sail, Sloop View entry for ANNIE & LILLIE in MNL 1915, page 674 MHACLIPMore...
ARGYLE83478Sail, Schooner View entry for ARGYLE in MNL 1915, page 676 MHACLIPMore...
ARITUS112314Sail, Sloop View entry for ARITUS in MNL 1915, page 676 MHACLIPMore...
ARMINTA107439Sail, Sloop View entry for ARMINTA in MNL 1915, page 676 MHACLIPMore...
ARNOLD B107913Sail, Sloop View entry for ARNOLD B in MNL 1915, page 677 MHACLIPMore...
ASTHORE107436Sail, Sloop View entry for ASTHORE in MNL 1915, page 678 MHACLIPMore...
AU-REVOIR103996Sail, Sloop View entry for AU-REVOIR in MNL 1915, page 679 MHACLIPMore...
AUSTIN P83469Sail, Schooner View entry for AUSTIN P in MNL 1915, page 680 MHACLIPMore...
AVA M107903Sail, Sloop View entry for AVA M in MNL 1915, page 680 MHACLIPMore...
AVIS C TOBEY103127Sail, Sloop View entry for AVIS C TOBEY in MNL 1915, page 681 MHACLIPMore...
BARRACOUTA130426Sail, Sloop View entry for BARRACOUTA in MNL 1915, page 684 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE116672Sail, Sloop View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1915, page 685 MHACLIPMore...
BERTIE107911Sail, Sloop View entry for BERTIE in MNL 1915, page 688 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE ARDELLA948401913, Motor View entry for BESSIE ARDELLA in MNL 1915, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
BETA111559Sail, Sloop View entry for BETA in MNL 1915, page 689 MHACLIPMore...
BILLOW83210Sail, Schooner View entry for BILLOW in MNL 1915, page 690 MHACLIPMore...
BOHEMIA122573Sail, Sloop View entry for BOHEMIA in MNL 1915, page 692 MHACLIPMore...
BONITA122250Sail, Sloop View entry for BONITA in MNL 1915, page 693 MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA103128Sail, Sloop View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1915, page 696 MHACLIPMore...
CALLA971441896, Steam View entry for CALLA in MNL 1915, page 88 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO1304301912, Motor View entry for CASARCO in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 101311961912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 10 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 111311971912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 11 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 121311981912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 12 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 141337821913, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 14 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 21311931912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 2 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 31311941912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 3 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 41311921912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 4 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 51311911912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 5 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 61311991912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 6 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 71311951912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 7 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 81312001912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 8 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 91337811912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 9 in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CASSIE BELL1169691912, Motor View entry for CASSIE BELL in MNL 1915, page 98 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE92519Sail, Schooner View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1915, page 706 MHACLIPMore...
CENTENIAL107905Sail, Sloop View entry for CENTENIAL in MNL 1915, page 707 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA A BENNER107304Sail, Schooner View entry for CLARA A BENNER in MNL 1915, page 713 MHACLIPMore...
CLARICA & MYRTLE122050Sail, Sloop View entry for CLARICA & MYRTLE in MNL 1915, page 714 MHACLIPMore...
CRUSOE88290Sail, Schooner View entry for CRUSOE in MNL 1915, page 723 MHACLIPMore...
DEFIANCE92503Sail, Schooner View entry for DEFIANCE in MNL 1915, page 730 MHACLIPMore...
DELLA F TARR103118Sail, Schooner View entry for DELLA F TARR in MNL 1915, page 730 MHACLIPMore...
DISPUTE92515Sail, Schooner View entry for DISPUTE in MNL 1915, page 733 MHACLIPMore...
DREADNAUGHT116671Sail, Sloop View entry for DREADNAUGHT in MNL 1915, page 737 MHACLIPMore...
E M OLIVER59373Sail, Schooner View entry for E M OLIVER in MNL 1915, page 741 MHACLIPMore...
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