Ships shown as registered at Digby, Nova Scotia 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
ADDIE B107476Sail, Sloop View entry for ADDIE B in MNL 1915, page 657 MHACLIPMore...
ALART111528Sail, Sloop View entry for ALART in MNL 1915, page 660 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT J LUTZ121818Sail, Schooner View entry for ALBERT J LUTZ in MNL 1915, page 661 MHACLIPMore...
ALCYONE116235Sail, Schooner View entry for ALCYONE in MNL 1915, page 662 MHACLIPMore...
ALDA112287Sail, Schooner View entry for ALDA in MNL 1915, page 662 MHACLIPMore...
ALPH B PARKER88598Sail, Schooner View entry for ALPH B PARKER in MNL 1915, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
AMOS M HOLT59372Sail, Schooner View entry for AMOS M HOLT in MNL 1915, page 668 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE1162381905, Steam View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1915, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE COGGINS72978Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE COGGINS in MNL 1915, page 672 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE MAY111526Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE MAY in MNL 1915, page 673 MHACLIPMore...
B & C100547Sail, Sloop View entry for B & C in MNL 1915, page 682 MHACLIPMore...
BAY QUEEN97188Sail, Schooner View entry for BAY QUEEN in MNL 1915, page 684 MHACLIPMore...
BEAR RIVER1218071905, Steam View entry for BEAR RIVER in MNL 1915, page 53 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE100545Sail, Schooner View entry for BESSIE in MNL 1915, page 688 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE JAY75599Sail, Schooner View entry for BLUE JAY in MNL 1915, page 692 MHACLIPMore...
BUDA80795Sail, Schooner View entry for BUDA in MNL 1915, page 698 MHACLIPMore...
CARRIE88409Sail, Schooner View entry for CARRIE in MNL 1915, page 704 MHACLIPMore...
CENTREVILLE1005491898, Steam View entry for CENTREVILLE in MNL 1915, page 101 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES HASKELL94704Sail, Schooner View entry for CHARLES HASKELL in MNL 1915, page 709 MHACLIPMore...
CHEVALIER111836Sail, Sloop View entry for CHEVALIER in MNL 1915, page 711 MHACLIPMore...
CITIZEN100533Sail, Schooner View entry for CITIZEN in MNL 1915, page 713 MHACLIPMore...
CLARE LASS121820Sail, Sloop View entry for CLARE LASS in MNL 1915, page 714 MHACLIPMore...
CORA GERTIE1268781911, Motor View entry for CORA GERTIE in MNL 1915, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
CORA MAY116236Sail, Schooner View entry for CORA MAY in MNL 1915, page 719 MHACLIPMore...
CURLEW103181Sail, Schooner View entry for CURLEW in MNL 1915, page 723 MHACLIPMore...
DOROTHY G SNOW126879Sail, Schooner View entry for DOROTHY G SNOW in MNL 1915, page 736 MHACLIPMore...
DOROTHY M SMART126874Sail, Schooner View entry for DOROTHY M SMART in MNL 1915, page 736 MHACLIPMore...
ECONOMIST83261Sail, Schooner View entry for ECONOMIST in MNL 1915, page 743 MHACLIPMore...
EDDIE J103066Sail, Schooner View entry for EDDIE J in MNL 1915, page 743 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH L85683Sail, Schooner View entry for EDITH L in MNL 1915, page 744 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH L112280Sail, Schooner View entry for EDITH L in MNL 1915, page 744 MHACLIPMore...
EDNA L116239Sail, Schooner View entry for EDNA L in MNL 1915, page 745 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH111522Sail, Sloop View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1915, page 749 MHACLIPMore...
ELMER77740Sail, Schooner View entry for ELMER in MNL 1915, page 753 MHACLIPMore...
EMERALD1037491912, Motor View entry for EMERALD in MNL 1915, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
EMERSON FAYE116446Sail, Schooner View entry for EMERSON FAYE in MNL 1915, page 754 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY R121817Sail, Schooner View entry for EMILY R in MNL 1915, page 755 MHACLIPMore...
ENCHANTRESS83202Sail, Schooner View entry for ENCHANTRESS in MNL 1915, page 757 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL107473Sail, Schooner View entry for ETHEL in MNL 1915, page 761 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL CLARKE94705Sail, Barkantine View entry for ETHEL CLARKE in MNL 1915, page 761 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL MAY107475Sail, Schooner View entry for ETHEL MAY in MNL 1915, page 761 MHACLIPMore...
ETTA H111527Sail, Schooner View entry for ETTA H in MNL 1915, page 762 MHACLIPMore...
EVELINE112281Sail, Schooner View entry for EVELINE in MNL 1915, page 764 MHACLIPMore...
FAWN75614Sail, Schooner View entry for FAWN in MNL 1915, page 769 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE H112282Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORENCE H in MNL 1915, page 774 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE MAY122249Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORENCE MAY in MNL 1915, page 774 MHACLIPMore...
GAZELLE83260Sail, Schooner View entry for GAZELLE in MNL 1915, page 784 MHACLIPMore...
GEM1005461897, Steam View entry for GEM in MNL 1915, page 226 MHACLIPMore...
GENEVA1169661909, Motor View entry for GENEVA in MNL 1915, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE L1218101906, Steam View entry for GEORGE L in MNL 1915, page 228 MHACLIPMore...
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