Ships shown as registered at Port Louis in the Mercantile Navy List for 1860

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  ? .

Records for Port Louis may also be found under Mauritius.

Click a port name to see the records for that port

To show records for all the ports together, please click here

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ADOLPHE30449Sail, 32 tons View entry for ADOLPHE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ADOLPHINA30436Sail, 54 tons View entry for ADOLPHINA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AIME GEORGE30435Sail, 45 tons View entry for AIME GEORGE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRE30466Sail, 19 tons View entry for ALEXANDRE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE30405Sail, 85 tons View entry for ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALMA30496Sail, 18 tons View entry for ALMA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMELINA30500Sail, 33 tons View entry for AMELINA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNA30453Sail, 27 tons View entry for ANNA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AUSTRALIA30407Sail, 162 tons View entry for AUSTRALIA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITON30396Sail, 219 tons View entry for BRITON in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE30509Sail, 25 tons View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CASTRO30416Sail, 210 tons View entry for CASTRO in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CECILE30514Sail, 43 tons View entry for CECILE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE30337Sail, 72 tons View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHRISTINA30483Sail, 16 tons View entry for CHRISTINA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CREOLE DE L'UNION30482Sail, 19 tons View entry for CREOLE DE L'UNION in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
DART30433Sail, 88 tons View entry for DART in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
DAUPHIN30481Sail, 43 tons View entry for DAUPHIN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
DELHI30750Sail, 28 tons View entry for DELHI in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
DEUX COUSINS30431Sail, 32 tons View entry for DEUX COUSINS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
DIAVOLO30474Sail, 41 tons View entry for DIAVOLO in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELEANOR30414Sail, 149 tons View entry for ELEANOR in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA30447Sail, 20 tons View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
EMMA ISADORA30422Sail, 163 tons View entry for EMMA ISADORA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
EOLE30415Sail, 40 tons View entry for EOLE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ERNEST30454Sail, 32 tons View entry for ERNEST in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ESPERANCE30418Sail, 41 tons View entry for ESPERANCE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
EUDOXIE30439Sail, 26 tons View entry for EUDOXIE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
EVELINA30437Sail, 41 tons View entry for EVELINA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FELICIE30475Sail, 24 tons View entry for FELICIE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FELIX30440Sail, 25 tons View entry for FELIX in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FLINT30494Sail, 272 tons View entry for FLINT in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FLYING CLOUD31984Sail, 159 tons View entry for FLYING CLOUD in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FREDERICK30444Sail, 42 tons View entry for FREDERICK in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GENEREUX30478Sail, 16 tons View entry for GENEREUX in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GERMANI30493Sail, 40 tons View entry for GERMANI in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GRAND PORIENNE30491Sail, 51 tons View entry for GRAND PORIENNE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GREGORIO30413Sail, 74 tons View entry for GREGORIO in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GUSTAVE30485Sail, 16 tons View entry for GUSTAVE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
HARLEQUIN30399Sail, 184 tons View entry for HARLEQUIN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
HARRIET30460Sail, 40 tons View entry for HARRIET in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
HELOISE30465Sail, 18 tons View entry for HELOISE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
HENRIETTE & CLEMENCE30495Sail, 42 tons View entry for HENRIETTE & CLEMENCE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
HOPE30468Sail, 17 tons View entry for HOPE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
IBIS30517Sail, 120 tons View entry for IBIS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
IDA30401Sail, 167 tons View entry for IDA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
IRMA30473Sail, 52 tons View entry for IRMA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
J C ROSS30513Sail, 127 tons View entry for J C ROSS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
JEUNE ANTOINETTE30429Sail, 50 tons View entry for JEUNE ANTOINETTE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
JEUNE CHARLES30462Sail, 31 tons View entry for JEUNE CHARLES in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
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