Ships shown as registered at Richibucto, 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
303126778Sail, Schooner View entry for 303 in MNL 1915, page 1010 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES HUDSON78046Sail, Schooner View entry for AGNES HUDSON in MNL 1915, page 659 MHACLIPMore...
AUTUMN BELLE94791Sail, Schooner View entry for AUTUMN BELLE in MNL 1915, page 680 MHACLIPMore...
CHRISTINA831031886, Steam View entry for CHRISTINA in MNL 1915, page 110 MHACLIPMore...
COMET947991901, Steam View entry for COMET in MNL 1915, page 126 MHACLIPMore...
CONDUCTOR116681Sail, Schooner View entry for CONDUCTOR in MNL 1915, page 718 MHACLIPMore...
DOROTHY F1267711910, Motor View entry for DOROTHY F in MNL 1915, page 161 MHACLIPMore...
DWINA75624Sail, Schooner View entry for DWINA in MNL 1915, page 739 MHACLIPMore...
FISHERMAN'S PRIDE1267751910, Motor View entry for FISHERMAN'S PRIDE in MNL 1915, page 210 MHACLIPMore...
FRED H126776Sail, Schooner View entry for FRED H in MNL 1915, page 779 MHACLIPMore...
FULTA130665Sail, Schooner View entry for FULTA in MNL 1915, page 780 MHACLIPMore...
HARRY DICKSON116688Sail, Schooner View entry for HARRY DICKSON in MNL 1915, page 803 MHACLIPMore...
HERB-CURWIN130663Sail, Schooner View entry for HERB-CURWIN in MNL 1915, page 808 MHACLIPMore...
JARDINEVILLE130662Sail, Schooner View entry for JARDINEVILLE in MNL 1915, page 828 MHACLIPMore...
JOSEPH DOUCET116689Sail, Schooner View entry for JOSEPH DOUCET in MNL 1915, page 834 MHACLIPMore...
KATIE BELL83105Sail, Schooner View entry for KATIE BELL in MNL 1915, page 839 MHACLIPMore...
LAPEWALEN130664Sail, Schooner View entry for LAPEWALEN in MNL 1915, page 851 MHACLIPMore...
M G MORGAN130666Sail, Schooner View entry for M G MORGAN in MNL 1915, page 870 MHACLIPMore...
MAPLE LEAF94800Sail, Schooner View entry for MAPLE LEAF in MNL 1915, page 876 MHACLIPMore...
MARION IRVING1166821908, Steam View entry for MARION IRVING in MNL 1915, page 377 MHACLIPMore...
MAUD WESTON74368Sail, Schooner View entry for MAUD WESTON in MNL 1915, page 891 MHACLIPMore...
MAY ENGLISH94793Sail, Schooner View entry for MAY ENGLISH in MNL 1915, page 892 MHACLIPMore...
MINNIE E MOODY94792Sail, Schooner View entry for MINNIE E MOODY in MNL 1915, page 900 MHACLIPMore...
MINNIE LONG83104Sail, Schooner View entry for MINNIE LONG in MNL 1915, page 900 MHACLIPMore...
OCELOT1166841908, Motor View entry for OCELOT in MNL 1915, page 433 MHACLIPMore...
POWERFUL947981901, Steam View entry for POWERFUL in MNL 1915, page 469 MHACLIPMore...
RICHIBUCTO PEARL1306611914, Motor View entry for RICHIBUCTO PEARL in MNL 1915, page 496 MHACLIPMore...
S & G1267731910, Motor View entry for S & G in MNL 1915, page 512 MHACLIPMore...
SAMUEL G1267771911, Motor View entry for SAMUEL G in MNL 1915, page 521 MHACLIPMore...
SEA ADDER1166851908, Motor View entry for SEA ADDER in MNL 1915, page 530 MHACLIPMore...
SEA MOUSE71308Sail, Schooner View entry for SEA MOUSE in MNL 1915, page 978 MHACLIPMore...
SILVER FOX1306671914, Motor View entry for SILVER FOX in MNL 1915, page 539 MHACLIPMore...
SLIPPERY JACK1166861908, Motor View entry for SLIPPERY JACK in MNL 1915, page 545 MHACLIPMore...
STELLA88465Sail, Schooner View entry for STELLA in MNL 1915, page 994 MHACLIPMore...
SYLVALIE1267721910, Motor View entry for SYLVALIE in MNL 1915, page 569 MHACLIPMore...
WAWOTA126774Sail, Schooner View entry for WAWOTA in MNL 1915, page 1036 MHACLIPMore...
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