Ships shown as registered at Rangoon in the Mercantile Navy List for 1930

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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ABDUL KHADIR JAILANI151789Sail, Schooner View entry for ABDUL KHADIR JAILANI in MNL 1930, page 869 MHACLIPMore...
AHHLU1534561926, Motor View entry for AHHLU in MNL 1930, page 607 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRA1293151916, Steam View entry for ALEXANDRA in MNL 1930, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE695501879, Steam View entry for ALICE in MNL 1930, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE917511887, Steam View entry for ALICE in MNL 1930, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ALLISON1515271921, Steam View entry for ALLISON in MNL 1930, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
APOLLO69544Sail, Barque View entry for APOLLO in MNL 1930, page 885 MHACLIPMore...
ARAKAN887221884, Steam View entry for ARAKAN in MNL 1930, page 24 MHACLIPMore...
ARYA1393841919, Auxilliary motor, page 617 View entry for ARYA in MNL 1930, page 617 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Brig, page 887 View entry for ARYA in MNL 1930, page 887 
ARYAVARTA1393911921, Auxilliary motor, page 617 View entry for ARYAVARTA in MNL 1930, page 617 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Brig, page 887 View entry for ARYAVARTA in MNL 1930, page 887 
AUNG BAN151322Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG BAN in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG CHAN YA151331Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG CHAN YA in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG DE PA139399Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG DE PA in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG MIN GLA GYI151529Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG MIN GLA GYI in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG MYAT THEIN151324Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG MYAT THEIN in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG SIN GYI151332Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG SIN GYI in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG THE DA151536Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG THE DA in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG THEIN BYAN151537Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG THEIN BYAN in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG THEIN NGWE1560311928, Auxilliary motor, page 620 View entry for AUNG THEIN NGWE in MNL 1930, page 620 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Schooner, page 889 View entry for AUNG THEIN NGWE in MNL 1930, page 889 
AUNG TOE BWA151323Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG TOE BWA in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNG TOE THA151335Sail, Schooner View entry for AUNG TOE THA in MNL 1930, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
AUNGBAN1335911920, Steam View entry for AUNGBAN in MNL 1930, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
BADARPUR1517831922, Steam View entry for BADARPUR in MNL 1930, page 37 MHACLIPMore...
BAN NEE151320Sail, Schooner View entry for BAN NEE in MNL 1930, page 895 MHACLIPMore...
BEACON1366881924, Steam View entry for BEACON in MNL 1930, page 46 MHACLIPMore...
BEME959401904, Steam View entry for BEME in MNL 1930, page 51 MHACLIPMore...
BHAGIRATHI1560341928, Steam View entry for BHAGIRATHI in MNL 1930, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
BILLION1515351929, Auxilliary motor, page 628 View entry for BILLION in MNL 1930, page 628 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Schooner, page 900 View entry for BILLION in MNL 1930, page 900 
BO MIN151794Sail, Schooner View entry for BO MIN in MNL 1930, page 903 MHACLIPMore...
BURMANNIA1517881923, Steam View entry for BURMANNIA in MNL 1930, page 79 MHACLIPMore...
BYAN & HLWA151540Sail, Schooner View entry for BYAN & HLWA in MNL 1930, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BYAT1560361929, Steam View entry for BYAT in MNL 1930, page 80 MHACLIPMore...
BYEN1517971924, Steam View entry for BYEN in MNL 1930, page 80 MHACLIPMore...
CADER BUX887281885, Steam View entry for CADER BUX in MNL 1930, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
CHATTISWARI139387Sail, Brig View entry for CHATTISWARI in MNL 1930, page 923 MHACLIPMore...
CHAUK1517841922, Steam View entry for CHAUK in MNL 1930, page 103 MHACLIPMore...
CHITSAYA151793Sail, Schooner View entry for CHITSAYA in MNL 1930, page 924 MHACLIPMore...
CORMORANT1293081914, Steam View entry for CORMORANT in MNL 1930, page 130 MHACLIPMore...
CURLEW959501909, Steam View entry for CURLEW in MNL 1930, page 139 MHACLIPMore...
DACCA88729Sail, Schooner View entry for DACCA in MNL 1930, page 937 MHACLIPMore...
DALLA864721899, Steam View entry for DALLA in MNL 1930, page 143 MHACLIPMore...
DAMAZEDI1534641927, Steam View entry for DAMAZEDI in MNL 1930, page 143 MHACLIPMore...
DAUNG AUNG BAN151533Sail, Schooner View entry for DAUNG AUNG BAN in MNL 1930, page 939 MHACLIPMore...
DELHI139389Sail, Brig View entry for DELHI in MNL 1930, page 941 MHACLIPMore...
DUNNEDAW959461911, Steam View entry for DUNNEDAW in MNL 1930, page 162 MHACLIPMore...
ELSA959321899, Steam View entry for ELSA in MNL 1930, page 175 MHACLIPMore...
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