Ships shown as registered at Colombo 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
ABDOOR RAYMAN31034Sail, Brigantine View entry for ABDOOR RAYMAN in MNL 1915, page 655 MHACLIPMore...
ALLIMADAT130101Sail, Dhoney View entry for ALLIMADAT in MNL 1915, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
ALLY CAUDER BUX31099Sail, Schooner View entry for ALLY CAUDER BUX in MNL 1915, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA MARIA30985Sail, Dhoney View entry for ANNA MARIA in MNL 1915, page 670 MHACLIPMore...
ARABIA31299Sail, Schooner View entry for ARABIA in MNL 1915, page 675 MHACLIPMore...
CADER BOX31085Sail, Brig View entry for CADER BOX in MNL 1915, page 701 MHACLIPMore...
CADER BOX31107Sail, Brig View entry for CADER BOX in MNL 1915, page 701 MHACLIPMore...
CANDASWAMY PURAVY31105Sail, Brig View entry for CANDASWAMY PURAVY in MNL 1915, page 703 MHACLIPMore...
CEYLON ISLAND30973Sail, Schooner View entry for CEYLON ISLAND in MNL 1915, page 708 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH31115Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1915, page 749 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH31456Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1915, page 749 MHACLIPMore...
EMMANUEL31123Sail, Schooner View entry for EMMANUEL in MNL 1915, page 756 MHACLIPMore...
FATHA HOOL MOHEEN HYDROSE31065Sail, Schooner View entry for FATHA HOOL MOHEEN HYDROSE in MNL 1915, page 769 MHACLIPMore...
FATHUR RAHAMAN30921Sail, Brig View entry for FATHUR RAHAMAN in MNL 1915, page 769 MHACLIPMore...
FATTAL JEBAD30916Sail, Brig View entry for FATTAL JEBAD in MNL 1915, page 769 MHACLIPMore...
FELICITE61178Sail, Schooner View entry for FELICITE in MNL 1915, page 770 MHACLIPMore...
GUNGA FATHA KARIM81081Sail View entry for GUNGA FATHA KARIM in MNL 1915, page 797 MHACLIPMore...
GUNGA HIADRIE81094Sail View entry for GUNGA HIADRIE in MNL 1915, page 797 MHACLIPMore...
GUNJO JAIRUMPUSSA81082Sail View entry for GUNJO JAIRUMPUSSA in MNL 1915, page 797 MHACLIPMore...
HYDROSE81074Sail, Brig View entry for HYDROSE in MNL 1915, page 814 MHACLIPMore...
INDUSTRY810841896, Steam View entry for INDUSTRY in MNL 1915, page 284 MHACLIPMore...
JAFFNA810971903, Steam View entry for JAFFNA in MNL 1915, page 297 MHACLIPMore...
JOSEPHINE31130Sail, Schooner View entry for JOSEPHINE in MNL 1915, page 835 MHACLIPMore...
KOSOOMOGAIDIN31055Sail, Brig View entry for KOSOOMOGAIDIN in MNL 1915, page 846 MHACLIPMore...
LADY HELENA31425Sail, Schooner View entry for LADY HELENA in MNL 1915, page 848 MHACLIPMore...
LADY INCHCAPE1301021912, Steam View entry for LADY INCHCAPE in MNL 1915, page 332 MHACLIPMore...
LETCHEMY30917Sail, Schooner View entry for LETCHEMY in MNL 1915, page 856 MHACLIPMore...
LETCHIMINA30997Sail, Dhoney View entry for LETCHIMINA in MNL 1915, page 856 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA30963Sail, Brig View entry for MARIA in MNL 1915, page 878 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA ANTHONY CLEMANCY31051Sail, Dhoney View entry for MARIA ANTHONY CLEMANCY in MNL 1915, page 879 MHACLIPMore...
MARY82022Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY in MNL 1915, page 883 MHACLIPMore...
MEENATCHI SUNDRAM81087Sail, Brig View entry for MEENATCHI SUNDRAM in MNL 1915, page 894 MHACLIPMore...
MEERAMATHAM31083Sail, Brig View entry for MEERAMATHAM in MNL 1915, page 894 MHACLIPMore...
MEERASAIB31109Sail, Brig View entry for MEERASAIB in MNL 1915, page 894 MHACLIPMore...
MOHAMADO ELLIAS81075Sail, Brig View entry for MOHAMADO ELLIAS in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHATHIN BOX77129Sail, Brig View entry for MOHATHIN BOX in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHAYADEEN SAMDANY81069Sail, Brig View entry for MOHAYADEEN SAMDANY in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHEDIN BUX31033Sail, Schooner View entry for MOHEDIN BUX in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHEDIN PALE31037Sail, Dhoney View entry for MOHEDIN PALE in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHERDIN BOX30950Sail, Dhoney View entry for MOHERDIN BOX in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHIDEEN BUX81088Sail, Dhoney View entry for MOHIDEEN BUX in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHIDIN CADER HYDROOS31079Sail, Brig View entry for MOHIDIN CADER HYDROOS in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MOHODIN HYDROOS MIRA MADON31252Sail, Dhoney View entry for MOHODIN HYDROOS MIRA MADON in MNL 1915, page 903 MHACLIPMore...
MOHOMED EBROYMALLY81073Sail, Brig View entry for MOHOMED EBROYMALLY in MNL 1915, page 903 MHACLIPMore...
MOORAREY31045Sail, Brig View entry for MOORAREY in MNL 1915, page 904 MHACLIPMore...
MUHAMMAD SAHOOL HAMID KHAJA81090Sail, Brig View entry for MUHAMMAD SAHOOL HAMID KHAJA in MNL 1915, page 906 MHACLIPMore...
NASSAROOL AHMID31081Sail, Schooner View entry for NASSAROOL AHMID in MNL 1915, page 909 MHACLIPMore...
NASSUROOL AHMID81053Sail, Brig View entry for NASSUROOL AHMID in MNL 1915, page 909 MHACLIPMore...
PARVADY PRESSAD30940Sail, Brig View entry for PARVADY PRESSAD in MNL 1915, page 932 MHACLIPMore...
PASQUAL81062Sail, Brig View entry for PASQUAL in MNL 1915, page 932 MHACLIPMore...
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