Ships shown as registered at Auckland in the Mercantile Navy List for 1900

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
ADA94239Sail, Ketch View entry for ADA in MNL 1900, page 390 MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL837571898, Steam View entry for ADMIRAL in MNL 1900, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
AKAROA746361896, Steam View entry for AKAROA in MNL 1900, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
ALCESTIS58022Sail, Barque View entry for ALCESTIS in MNL 1900, page 396 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRA827091882, Steam View entry for ALEXANDRA in MNL 1900, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
AOTEA1022731895, Steam View entry for AOTEA in MNL 1900, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
AOTEA1062011899, Steam View entry for AOTEA in MNL 1900, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
ARATAPU78354Sail, Brigantine View entry for ARATAPU in MNL 1900, page 410 MHACLIPMore...
ATALANTA66546Sail, Schooner View entry for ATALANTA in MNL 1900, page 414 MHACLIPMore...
AUSTRALIAN82718Sail, Cutter View entry for AUSTRALIAN in MNL 1900, page 415 MHACLIPMore...
AWANUI94237Sail, Schooner View entry for AWANUI in MNL 1900, page 416 MHACLIPMore...
BEE94233Sail, Schooner View entry for BEE in MNL 1900, page 419 MHACLIPMore...
BIRKENHEAD875171885, Steam View entry for BIRKENHEAD in MNL 1900, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE826921881, Steam View entry for BLANCHE in MNL 1900, page 42 MHACLIPMore...
BOULARIE102319Sail, Yawl View entry for BOULARIE in MNL 1900, page 427 MHACLIPMore...
BRAVO102291Sail, Schooner View entry for BRAVO in MNL 1900, page 428 MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA875351885, Steam View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1900, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BROTHERS1023161899, Steam View entry for BROTHERS in MNL 1900, page 755 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIDGE57792Sail, Ketch View entry for CAMBRIDGE in MNL 1900, page 434 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE50951Sail, Cutter View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1900, page 438 MHACLIPMore...
CHAMPION70374Sail, Cutter View entry for CHAMPION in MNL 1900, page 441 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE52431Sail, Cutter View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1900, page 442 MHACLIPMore...
CHELMSFORD893981894, Steam View entry for CHELMSFORD in MNL 1900, page 66 MHACLIPMore...
CLANSMAN78373Sail, Schooner View entry for CLANSMAN in MNL 1900, page 446 MHACLIPMore...
CLANSMAN875201884, Steam View entry for CLANSMAN in MNL 1900, page 73 MHACLIPMore...
CLIO57821Sail, Ketch View entry for CLIO in MNL 1900, page 447 MHACLIPMore...
CLOUD102301Sail, Barque View entry for CLOUD in MNL 1900, page 448 MHACLIPMore...
COMMERZIENRATH RODBERTUS102284Sail, Barque View entry for COMMERZIENRATH RODBERTUS in MNL 1900, page 449 MHACLIPMore...
CORALIE66574Sail, Cutter View entry for CORALIE in MNL 1900, page 452 MHACLIPMore...
COROMANDEL783741879, Steam View entry for COROMANDEL in MNL 1900, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
CROYDON LASS73523Sail, Schooner View entry for CROYDON LASS in MNL 1900, page 455 MHACLIPMore...
DAD94255Sail, Schooner View entry for DAD in MNL 1900, page 457 MHACLIPMore...
DAYSPRING102276Sail, Cutter View entry for DAYSPRING in MNL 1900, page 460 MHACLIPMore...
DEFIANCE78391Sail, Brigantine View entry for DEFIANCE in MNL 1900, page 461 MHACLIPMore...
DEVONPORT578141870, Steam View entry for DEVONPORT in MNL 1900, page 95 MHACLIPMore...
DOUGLAS827131882, Steam View entry for DOUGLAS in MNL 1900, page 99 MHACLIPMore...
DUNGARVON102262Sail, Ketch View entry for DUNGARVON in MNL 1900, page 468 MHACLIPMore...
DURHAM703531876, Steam View entry for DURHAM in MNL 1900, page 105 MHACLIPMore...
EAGLE875431887, Steam View entry for EAGLE in MNL 1900, page 106 MHACLIPMore...
EFFORT578291871, Steam View entry for EFFORT in MNL 1900, page 110 MHACLIPMore...
EILEEN94262Sail, Ketch View entry for EILEEN in MNL 1900, page 474 MHACLIPMore...
ELEANOR70373Sail, Cutter View entry for ELEANOR in MNL 1900, page 475 MHACLIPMore...
EMPREZA29939Sail, Barque View entry for EMPREZA in MNL 1900, page 485 MHACLIPMore...
EON94258Sail, Schooner View entry for EON in MNL 1900, page 487 MHACLIPMore...
ESK82681Sail, Cutter View entry for ESK in MNL 1900, page 488 MHACLIPMore...
ESSIE94259Sail, Ketch View entry for ESSIE in MNL 1900, page 488 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL J942421891, Steam View entry for ETHEL J in MNL 1900, page 120 MHACLIPMore...
EVENING STAR70193Sail, Cutter View entry for EVENING STAR in MNL 1900, page 492 MHACLIPMore...
EXAMINER64346Sail, Barque View entry for EXAMINER in MNL 1900, page 492 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELSIOR94268Sail, Schooner View entry for EXCELSIOR in MNL 1900, page 492 MHACLIPMore...
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