Ships shown as registered at St Andrews, NB in the Mercantile Navy List for 1940

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
A1 K HOL1511491929, Motor View entry for A1 K HOL in MNL 1940, page 438 MHACLIPMore...
ADELENE M GREENLAW1511501929, Motor View entry for ADELENE M GREENLAW in MNL 1940, page 435 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERTINE 2ND1703041936, Motor View entry for ALBERTINE 2ND in MNL 1940, page 439 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE J1337861913, Motor View entry for ALICE J in MNL 1940, page 441 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE RUTH1552251929, Motor View entry for ALICE RUTH in MNL 1940, page 441 MHACLIPMore...
ALMA CONNORS1571481932, Motor View entry for ALMA CONNORS in MNL 1940, page 443 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA1220471906, Motor View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1940, page 443 MHACLIPMore...
ANN IRENE1584981934, Motor View entry for ANN IRENE in MNL 1940, page 447 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA LEE1720061939, Motor View entry for ANNA LEE in MNL 1940, page 448 MHACLIPMore...
ARISTOCRAT1570871934, Motor View entry for ARISTOCRAT in MNL 1940, page 453 MHACLIPMore...
AU-REVOIR103996Sail, Sloop View entry for AU-REVOIR in MNL 1940, page 905 MHACLIPMore...
BARRACOUTA130426Sail, Sloop View entry for BARRACOUTA in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE1166721937, Motor View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1940, page 465 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE & FRANCES1337881915, Motor View entry for BEATRICE & FRANCES in MNL 1940, page 465 MHACLIPMore...
BERNADINE1304301912, Motor View entry for BERNADINE in MNL 1940, page 468 MHACLIPMore...
BERNARD J1707411938, Motor View entry for BERNARD J in MNL 1940, page 468 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA & ALICE1587041934, Motor View entry for BERTHA & ALICE in MNL 1940, page 469 MHACLIPMore...
BETA1115591936, Motor View entry for BETA in MNL 1940, page 470 MHACLIPMore...
BETTY ALDEN1587771936, Motor View entry for BETTY ALDEN in MNL 1940, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
BEULAH I1582751933, Motor View entry for BEULAH I in MNL 1940, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
BEULAH MAE1703261937, Motor View entry for BEULAH MAE in MNL 1940, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
BIBBER1707501939, Motor View entry for BIBBER in MNL 1940, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
BIRDENA1707341937, Motor View entry for BIRDENA in MNL 1940, page 472 MHACLIPMore...
BLACK JACK1337871915, Motor View entry for BLACK JACK in MNL 1940, page 473 MHACLIPMore...
BODLE1587011934, Motor View entry for BODLE in MNL 1940, page 476 MHACLIPMore...
BOHEMIA1225731931, Motor View entry for BOHEMIA in MNL 1940, page 476 MHACLIPMore...
BRUNSWICK MAID1383241920, Motor View entry for BRUNSWICK MAID in MNL 1940, page 484 MHACLIPMore...
BURTON R1552281929, Motor View entry for BURTON R in MNL 1940, page 486 MHACLIPMore...
CALONNE1703301937, Motor View entry for CALONNE in MNL 1940, page 489 MHACLIPMore...
CARL & FRANCIS1571441931, Motor View entry for CARL & FRANCIS in MNL 1940, page 493 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 101311961912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 10 in MNL 1940, page 495 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 121311981912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 12 in MNL 1940, page 495 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 141337821913, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 14 in MNL 1940, page 495 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 41311921912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 4 in MNL 1940, page 495 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 51311911912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 5 in MNL 1940, page 495 MHACLIPMore...
CASARCO NO 81312001912, Motor View entry for CASARCO NO 8 in MNL 1940, page 495 MHACLIPMore...
CAVALIER II1703121937, Motor View entry for CAVALIER II in MNL 1940, page 496 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLIE ROSS1511471928, Auxilliary motor, page 499 View entry for CHARLIE ROSS in MNL 1940, page 499 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Sloop, page 937 View entry for CHARLIE ROSS in MNL 1940, page 937 
CHARMAC1707311937, Motor View entry for CHARMAC in MNL 1940, page 500 MHACLIPMore...
CHESTER C1552241929, Motor View entry for CHESTER C in MNL 1940, page 501 MHACLIPMore...
DEBUTANTE1720071939, Motor View entry for DEBUTANTE in MNL 1940, page 522 MHACLIPMore...
DOREEN II1703131937, Motor View entry for DOREEN II in MNL 1940, page 529 MHACLIPMore...
DREAM BOAT1707471938, Motor View entry for DREAM BOAT in MNL 1940, page 532 MHACLIPMore...
E E M1707421938, Motor View entry for E E M in MNL 1940, page 536 MHACLIPMore...
EDGAR C1582711933, Motor View entry for EDGAR C in MNL 1940, page 538 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD E PRINCE1511431926, Motor View entry for EDWARD E PRINCE in MNL 1940, page 539 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD MORSE1031141922, Motor View entry for EDWARD MORSE in MNL 1940, page 539 MHACLIPMore...
ELDRED M1584931934, Motor View entry for ELDRED M in MNL 1940, page 542 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH & JEWEL1584961934, Motor View entry for ELIZABETH & JEWEL in MNL 1940, page 543 MHACLIPMore...
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