Ships shown as registered at Richibucto, 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
A & R L CO 81581721936, Motor View entry for A & R L CO 8 in MNL 1940, page 432 MHACLIPMore...
A & R L CO 91581731936, Motor View entry for A & R L CO 9 in MNL 1940, page 432 MHACLIPMore...
A L MAILLET1306681916, Motor View entry for A L MAILLET in MNL 1940, page 432 MHACLIPMore...
ALVETHA1546051930, Motor View entry for ALVETHA in MNL 1940, page 444 MHACLIPMore...
BUCTOUCHE BEST1383201927, Motor View entry for BUCTOUCHE BEST in MNL 1940, page 485 MHACLIPMore...
DENNIS & ANGUS158174Sail View entry for DENNIS & ANGUS in MNL 1940, page 956 MHACLIPMore...
DENNIS & ANGUS NO 2158175Sail View entry for DENNIS & ANGUS NO 2 in MNL 1940, page 956 MHACLIPMore...
DENNIS & ANGUS NO 3158177Sail View entry for DENNIS & ANGUS NO 3 in MNL 1940, page 956 MHACLIPMore...
DORTH1546091931, Motor View entry for DORTH in MNL 1940, page 531 MHACLIPMore...
DWINA75624Sail, Schooner View entry for DWINA in MNL 1940, page 964 MHACLIPMore...
FIVE WEEKS1306701916, Motor View entry for FIVE WEEKS in MNL 1940, page 561 MHACLIPMore...
GRAND PRE1546101932, Motor View entry for GRAND PRE in MNL 1940, page 583 MHACLIPMore...
GULF RAIDER1581761936, Motor View entry for GULF RAIDER in MNL 1940, page 586 MHACLIPMore...
HERB-CURWIN130663Sail, Schooner View entry for HERB-CURWIN in MNL 1940, page 1021 MHACLIPMore...
HIGH STEPPER1546081931, Motor View entry for HIGH STEPPER in MNL 1940, page 598 MHACLIPMore...
JARDINEVILLE130662Sail, Schooner View entry for JARDINEVILLE in MNL 1940, page 1040 MHACLIPMore...
JOSEPH DOUCET116689Sail, Schooner View entry for JOSEPH DOUCET in MNL 1940, page 1044 MHACLIPMore...
LEN D1581711936, Motor View entry for LEN D in MNL 1940, page 652 MHACLIPMore...
MAHALIA M1383181927, Motor View entry for MAHALIA M in MNL 1940, page 670 MHACLIPMore...
MARCELL M1546021927, Motor View entry for MARCELL M in MNL 1940, page 675 MHACLIPMore...
MARION IRVING1166821908, Steam View entry for MARION IRVING in MNL 1940, page 249 MHACLIPMore...
MAUD WESTON74368Sail, Schooner View entry for MAUD WESTON in MNL 1940, page 1102 MHACLIPMore...
MILDRED N1546011927, Motor View entry for MILDRED N in MNL 1940, page 693 MHACLIPMore...
MODEL A130669Sail, Schooner View entry for MODEL A in MNL 1940, page 1111 MHACLIPMore...
REGINA E1546031928, Motor View entry for REGINA E in MNL 1940, page 774 MHACLIPMore...
RICHIBUCTO1383131920, Steam View entry for RICHIBUCTO in MNL 1940, page 322 MHACLIPMore...
RICHIBUCTO PEARL1306611914, Motor View entry for RICHIBUCTO PEARL in MNL 1940, page 777 MHACLIPMore...
RONALD E1166591936, Steam View entry for RONALD E in MNL 1940, page 326 MHACLIPMore...
ROSIE D1546071931, Motor View entry for ROSIE D in MNL 1940, page 784 MHACLIPMore...
SYLVALEE1267721910, Motor View entry for SYLVALEE in MNL 1940, page 831 MHACLIPMore...
THELMA V1383161936, Motor View entry for THELMA V in MNL 1940, page 840 MHACLIPMore...
TOM PLUM1383191927, Motor View entry for TOM PLUM in MNL 1940, page 845 MHACLIPMore...
TWO A M1383171927, Motor View entry for TWO A M in MNL 1940, page 851 MHACLIPMore...
WAWOTA126774Sail, Schooner View entry for WAWOTA in MNL 1940, page 1243 MHACLIPMore...
ZELEA1383141924, Motor View entry for ZELEA in MNL 1940, page 884 MHACLIPMore...
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