Ships shown as registered at Adelaide 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
ACTIVE64218Sail, Ketch View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1915, page 655 MHACLIPMore...
ADA BELL793331893, Steam View entry for ADA BELL in MNL 1915, page 5 MHACLIPMore...
ADONIS32126Sail, Barge View entry for ADONIS in MNL 1915, page 657 MHACLIPMore...
ALBEMARLE89408Sail View entry for ALBEMARLE in MNL 1915, page 661 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT79338Sail View entry for ALBERT in MNL 1915, page 661 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT57535Sail, Ketch View entry for ALERT in MNL 1915, page 662 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE79345Sail, Barge View entry for ALICE in MNL 1915, page 663 MHACLIPMore...
ALLINGA1055781897, Steam View entry for ALLINGA in MNL 1915, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA79308Sail, Cutter View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1915, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE74773Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1915, page 671 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE WATT57512Sail, Barge View entry for ANNIE WATT in MNL 1915, page 674 MHACLIPMore...
AQUARIUS79309Sail View entry for AQUARIUS in MNL 1915, page 675 MHACLIPMore...
ARAB106161Sail, Ketch View entry for ARAB in MNL 1915, page 675 MHACLIPMore...
ARCADIA1174241911, Steam View entry for ARCADIA in MNL 1915, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARGYLE703621898, Steam View entry for ARGYLE in MNL 1915, page 33 MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL74840Sail, Schooner View entry for ARIEL in MNL 1915, page 676 MHACLIPMore...
AVOCA747841893, Steam View entry for AVOCA in MNL 1915, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE BELL836681883, Steam View entry for BLUE BELL in MNL 1915, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
BOURKE74792Sail, Barge View entry for BOURKE in MNL 1915, page 693 MHACLIPMore...
BRONZEWING57531Sail, Ketch View entry for BRONZEWING in MNL 1915, page 697 MHACLIPMore...
BROUGHTON64219Sail, Schooner View entry for BROUGHTON in MNL 1915, page 698 MHACLIPMore...
BUCK55604Sail, Ketch View entry for BUCK in MNL 1915, page 698 MHACLIPMore...
BULLARRA894291891, Steam View entry for BULLARRA in MNL 1915, page 81 MHACLIPMore...
CADELL747751884, Steam View entry for CADELL in MNL 1915, page 85 MHACLIPMore...
CAPELLA57532Sail, Ketch View entry for CAPELLA in MNL 1915, page 703 MHACLIPMore...
CARROO1082231904, Steam View entry for CARROO in MNL 1915, page 96 MHACLIPMore...
CATO793461883, Steam View entry for CATO in MNL 1915, page 99 MHACLIPMore...
CECELIA64222Sail, Ketch View entry for CECELIA in MNL 1915, page 706 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF OXFORD936301897, Steam View entry for CITY OF OXFORD in MNL 1915, page 115 MHACLIPMore...
CLEMENTINA71775Sail, Ketch View entry for CLEMENTINA in MNL 1915, page 714 MHACLIPMore...
COBAR79342Sail, Barge View entry for COBAR in MNL 1915, page 715 MHACLIPMore...
COORONG51551Sail, Hulk View entry for COORONG in MNL 1915, page 719 MHACLIPMore...
CREST OF THE WAVE32128Sail, Ketch View entry for CREST OF THE WAVE in MNL 1915, page 722 MHACLIPMore...
CROUPIER79332Sail View entry for CROUPIER in MNL 1915, page 722 MHACLIPMore...
DASHING WAVE32149Sail, Barge View entry for DASHING WAVE in MNL 1915, page 728 MHACLIPMore...
DEFIANCE836351889, Steam View entry for DEFIANCE in MNL 1915, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
DERWENT588301874, Steam View entry for DERWENT in MNL 1915, page 153 MHACLIPMore...
DUCK74776Sail, Barge View entry for DUCK in MNL 1915, page 738 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE43142Sail, Schooner View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1915, page 742 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE74766Sail View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1915, page 742 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH894391896, Steam View entry for EDITH in MNL 1915, page 176 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH ALICE57508Sail, Barge View entry for EDITH ALICE in MNL 1915, page 744 MHACLIPMore...
ELEANOR496131865, Steam View entry for ELEANOR in MNL 1915, page 180 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH47438Sail View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1915, page 749 MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN717801891, Steam View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1915, page 183 MHACLIPMore...
ELSIE74794Sail, Barge View entry for ELSIE in MNL 1915, page 753 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY89438Sail, Barge View entry for EMILY in MNL 1915, page 754 MHACLIPMore...
ETTY79319Sail, Ketch View entry for ETTY in MNL 1915, page 762 MHACLIPMore...
EURO1047421897, Steam View entry for EURO in MNL 1915, page 198 MHACLIPMore...
EVA117417Sail, Ketch View entry for EVA in MNL 1915, page 763 MHACLIPMore...
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