Ships shown as registered at Turks Island 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  ? .

Records for Turks Island may also be found under Grand Clay or Grand Turk.

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
A R M A128669Sail, Sloop View entry for A R M A in MNL 1915, page 654 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE D128675Sail, Sloop View entry for ALICE D in MNL 1915, page 664 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA NEAL128763Sail, Sloop View entry for ANNA NEAL in MNL 1915, page 670 MHACLIPMore...
BELVY110498Sail, Sloop View entry for BELVY in MNL 1915, page 687 MHACLIPMore...
BIJOU118572Sail, Schooner View entry for BIJOU in MNL 1915, page 690 MHACLIPMore...
CAIRO118565Sail, Sloop View entry for CAIRO in MNL 1915, page 701 MHACLIPMore...
CUBA48443Sail, Brig View entry for CUBA in MNL 1915, page 723 MHACLIPMore...
D M W128663Sail, Sloop View entry for D M W in MNL 1915, page 725 MHACLIPMore...
DREAD118578Sail, Sloop View entry for DREAD in MNL 1915, page 737 MHACLIPMore...
E C C110491Sail, Sloop View entry for E C C in MNL 1915, page 740 MHACLIPMore...
E T128666Sail, Sloop View entry for E T in MNL 1915, page 740 MHACLIPMore...
EAR BELL128670Sail, Sloop View entry for EAR BELL in MNL 1915, page 741 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH100083Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1915, page 750 MHACLIPMore...
ELM110494Sail, Sloop View entry for ELM in MNL 1915, page 752 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY S MALCOLM118579Sail, Schooner View entry for EMILY S MALCOLM in MNL 1915, page 755 MHACLIPMore...
G N C128674Sail, Sloop View entry for G N C in MNL 1915, page 781 MHACLIPMore...
GHOST110495Sail, Sloop View entry for GHOST in MNL 1915, page 788 MHACLIPMore...
I D110482Sail, Sloop View entry for I D in MNL 1915, page 814 MHACLIPMore...
LAURA PRIDE48107Sail, Schooner View entry for LAURA PRIDE in MNL 1915, page 852 MHACLIPMore...
NEPHEW128671Sail View entry for NEPHEW in MNL 1915, page 912 MHACLIPMore...
OMER46668Sail, Brigantine View entry for OMER in MNL 1915, page 924 MHACLIPMore...
P & I128668Sail, Sloop View entry for P & I in MNL 1915, page 929 MHACLIPMore...
PINK PEARL118580Sail, Sloop View entry for PINK PEARL in MNL 1915, page 939 MHACLIPMore...
PREJUDICE128672Sail, Sloop View entry for PREJUDICE in MNL 1915, page 943 MHACLIPMore...
ROVER22530Sail, Barkantine View entry for ROVER in MNL 1915, page 964 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT GEORGE118573Sail, Sloop View entry for SAINT GEORGE in MNL 1915, page 969 MHACLIPMore...
SEA TRAIN104669Sail, Sloop View entry for SEA TRAIN in MNL 1915, page 979 MHACLIPMore...
SUSAN H128662Sail, Sloop View entry for SUSAN H in MNL 1915, page 998 MHACLIPMore...
SWIFT110484Sail, Sloop View entry for SWIFT in MNL 1915, page 1000 MHACLIPMore...
TRY110481Sail, Sloop View entry for TRY in MNL 1915, page 1015 MHACLIPMore...
UNION110487Sail, Sloop View entry for UNION in MNL 1915, page 1019 MHACLIPMore...
VIGILANT97430Sail, Schooner View entry for VIGILANT in MNL 1915, page 1026 MHACLIPMore...
WOODPECKER110490Sail, Schooner View entry for WOODPECKER in MNL 1915, page 1046 MHACLIPMore...
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