Ships shown as registered at Cardiff in the Mercantile Navy List for 1880

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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ABERAMAN72516Sail, Ship View entry for ABERAMAN in MNL 1880, page 145 MHACLIPMore...
ABERCARNE72512Sail, Ship View entry for ABERCARNE in MNL 1880, page 145 MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVITY814591879, Steam View entry for ACTIVITY in MNL 1880, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL752511875, Steam View entry for ADMIRAL in MNL 1880, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE561121869, Steam View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1880, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ALLIANCE689601877, Steam View entry for ALLIANCE in MNL 1880, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ANITA50435Sail, Sloop View entry for ANITA in MNL 1880, page 165 MHACLIPMore...
ANN26704Sail, Smack View entry for ANN in MNL 1880, page 166 MHACLIPMore...
ANN MARIA25577Sail, Sloop View entry for ANN MARIA in MNL 1880, page 167 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE M79388Sail, Smack View entry for ANNIE M in MNL 1880, page 172 MHACLIPMore...
ARDINGTON817801879, Steam View entry for ARDINGTON in MNL 1880, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ARTISTIC44251Sail, Brigantine View entry for ARTISTIC in MNL 1880, page 178 MHACLIPMore...
BARATANACH81779Sail, Cutter View entry for BARATANACH in MNL 1880, page 183 MHACLIPMore...
BEE210251877, Steam View entry for BEE in MNL 1880, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
BEIGNON817781879, Steam View entry for BEIGNON in MNL 1880, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
BLACK EAGLE272041860, Steam View entry for BLACK EAGLE in MNL 1880, page 16 MHACLIPMore...
BLACK WATCH702661874, Steam View entry for BLACK WATCH in MNL 1880, page 16 MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE681331872, Steam View entry for BLANCHE in MNL 1880, page 16 MHACLIPMore...
BRITTANY651231871, Steam View entry for BRITTANY in MNL 1880, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
BROTHERS55206Sail, Galliot View entry for BROTHERS in MNL 1880, page 199 MHACLIPMore...
BULL DOG214581878, Steam View entry for BULL DOG in MNL 1880, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
CAERLEON681401873, Steam View entry for CAERLEON in MNL 1880, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
CAESAREA681471873, Steam View entry for CAESAREA in MNL 1880, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDON53349Sail, Brigantine View entry for CALEDON in MNL 1880, page 203 MHACLIPMore...
CAMPANIL651331872, Steam View entry for CAMPANIL in MNL 1880, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
CANUTE59908Sail, Ship View entry for CANUTE in MNL 1880, page 205 MHACLIPMore...
CARDIFF725131875, Steam View entry for CARDIFF in MNL 1880, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
CARDIFF CASTLE504361866, Steam View entry for CARDIFF CASTLE in MNL 1880, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
CARDIGAN73926Sail, Brigantine View entry for CARDIGAN in MNL 1880, page 206 MHACLIPMore...
CASTLETON817741879, Steam View entry for CASTLETON in MNL 1880, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
CHATSWORTH681371873, Steam View entry for CHATSWORTH in MNL 1880, page 24 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF GLOSTER725291876, Steam View entry for CITY OF GLOSTER in MNL 1880, page 27 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA70270Sail, Schooner View entry for CLARA in MNL 1880, page 219 MHACLIPMore...
CLEMENTIA60258Sail, Barque View entry for CLEMENTIA in MNL 1880, page 220 MHACLIPMore...
COCHRINA72522Sail, Barque View entry for COCHRINA in MNL 1880, page 222 MHACLIPMore...
CONTRACTOR139411873, Steam View entry for CONTRACTOR in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
COQUET636081877, Steam View entry for COQUET in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
CORA MARIA817721879, Steam View entry for CORA MARIA in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
CORNISHMAN793871878, Steam View entry for CORNISHMAN in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
CORNWALL681321872, Steam View entry for CORNWALL in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
CORY BROTHERS772011877, Steam View entry for CORY BROTHERS in MNL 1880, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
COSMO793981879, Steam View entry for COSMO in MNL 1880, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
CRYSTAL SPRING79385Sail, Smack View entry for CRYSTAL SPRING in MNL 1880, page 230 MHACLIPMore...
DAISY280271866, Steam View entry for DAISY in MNL 1880, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
DART39551875, Steam View entry for DART in MNL 1880, page 35 MHACLIPMore...
DEVON681351872, Steam View entry for DEVON in MNL 1880, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
DOWLAIS793941879, Steam View entry for DOWLAIS in MNL 1880, page 38 MHACLIPMore...
DRUID651221871, Steam View entry for DRUID in MNL 1880, page 38 MHACLIPMore...
DUNROBIN725351876, Steam View entry for DUNROBIN in MNL 1880, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
EARL OF BEACONSFIELD725391877, Steam View entry for EARL OF BEACONSFIELD in MNL 1880, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
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