Ships shown as registered at Montreal 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 BIBEAU134146Sail, Sloop View entry for A BIBEAU in MNL 1920, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
A D107406Sail, Sloop View entry for A D in MNL 1920, page 665 MHACLIPMore...
A E AMES1144491919, Steam View entry for A E AMES in MNL 1920, page 1 MHACLIPMore...
A E MCKINSTRY1294911916, Steam View entry for A E MCKINSTRY in MNL 1920, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
A L NO 1133827Sail, Sloop View entry for A L NO 1 in MNL 1920, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
A LAFLEUR130934Sail, Sloop View entry for A LAFLEUR in MNL 1920, page 667 MHACLIPMore...
A MCVITTIE1384911917, Steam View entry for A MCVITTIE in MNL 1920, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
A MIELLETTE126688Sail, Sloop View entry for A MIELLETTE in MNL 1920, page 667 MHACLIPMore...
A YERGEAU126682Sail, Sloop View entry for A YERGEAU in MNL 1920, page 667 MHACLIPMore...
ABERDEEN1035541895, Steam View entry for ABERDEEN in MNL 1920, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ACADIA72942Sail View entry for ACADIA in MNL 1920, page 667 MHACLIPMore...
ACADIA924881913, Steam View entry for ACADIA in MNL 1920, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ACTAEA1116521901, Steam View entry for ACTAEA in MNL 1920, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
ADELIA S1305381911, Steam View entry for ADELIA S in MNL 1920, page 5 MHACLIPMore...
ADINE1267591910, Motor View entry for ADINE in MNL 1920, page 5 MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE886321904, Steam View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1920, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES WILSON138229Sail View entry for AGNES WILSON in MNL 1920, page 671 MHACLIPMore...
AIDA1342281914, Motor View entry for AIDA in MNL 1920, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
AILSA1267641910, Motor View entry for AILSA in MNL 1920, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERTA857651911, Steam View entry for ALBERTA in MNL 1920, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERTA1166031905, Steam View entry for ALBERTA in MNL 1920, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALBYA112266Sail, Sloop View entry for ALBYA in MNL 1920, page 673 MHACLIPMore...
ALCIDE103968Sail, Sloop View entry for ALCIDE in MNL 1920, page 673 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER MACLAURIN141371Sail View entry for ALEXANDER MACLAURIN in MNL 1920, page 674 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRA I1382251916, Steam View entry for ALEXANDRA I in MNL 1920, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN'S NO 1126165Sail View entry for ALLAN'S NO 1 in MNL 1920, page 676 MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN'S NO 2126166Sail View entry for ALLAN'S NO 2 in MNL 1920, page 676 MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN'S NO 3126167Sail View entry for ALLAN'S NO 3 in MNL 1920, page 676 MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN'S NO 4126168Sail View entry for ALLAN'S NO 4 in MNL 1920, page 677 MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN'S NO 6126170Sail View entry for ALLAN'S NO 6 in MNL 1920, page 677 MHACLIPMore...
ALLIES1379701915, Motor View entry for ALLIES in MNL 1920, page 17 MHACLIPMore...
ALMA1122741903, Steam View entry for ALMA in MNL 1920, page 17 MHACLIPMore...
ALONZO F BURT141475Sail View entry for ALONZO F BURT in MNL 1920, page 677 MHACLIPMore...
ALOUETTE1311041912, Motor View entry for ALOUETTE in MNL 1920, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHONSE RACINE1166021905, Steam View entry for ALPHONSE RACINE in MNL 1920, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
AMAPPAH1266891909, Motor View entry for AMAPPAH in MNL 1920, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
AMARINE126145Sail, Sloop View entry for AMARINE in MNL 1920, page 678 MHACLIPMore...
AMITA1267571910, Motor View entry for AMITA in MNL 1920, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
ANDREE DUPRE1413791919, Steam View entry for ANDREE DUPRE in MNL 1920, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
ANGUS W ROBERTSON130936Sail View entry for ANGUS W ROBERTSON in MNL 1920, page 680 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE BARRETT1077471915, Steam View entry for ANNIE BARRETT in MNL 1920, page 24 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE Q1343431914, Motor View entry for ANNIE Q in MNL 1920, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ANTHEMIS1264871909, Steam View entry for ANTHEMIS in MNL 1920, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
APHIA1263601909, Motor View entry for APHIA in MNL 1920, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ARJAY1309301912, Steam View entry for ARJAY in MNL 1920, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR103098Sail View entry for ARTHUR in MNL 1920, page 687 MHACLIPMore...
ASIA94886Sail View entry for ASIA in MNL 1920, page 688 MHACLIPMore...
ASINHAZE1384961917, Motor View entry for ASINHAZE in MNL 1920, page 35 MHACLIPMore...
ASSINIBOIA1259841907, Steam View entry for ASSINIBOIA in MNL 1920, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
ATHABASKA857641910, Steam View entry for ATHABASKA in MNL 1920, page 37 MHACLIPMore...
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