Ships shown as registered at Fremantle in the Mercantile Navy List for 1940

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
ABEMAMA138200Sail, Schooner View entry for ABEMAMA in MNL 1940, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
ADA95361Sail, Lugger View entry for ADA in MNL 1940, page 890 MHACLIPMore...
ADA102254Sail, Schooner View entry for ADA in MNL 1940, page 890 MHACLIPMore...
ADA WILLIAMS117812Sail, Schooner View entry for ADA WILLIAMS in MNL 1940, page 890 MHACLIPMore...
ADVENTURE120023Sail View entry for ADVENTURE in MNL 1940, page 891 MHACLIPMore...
AGATHA114480Sail, Schooner View entry for AGATHA in MNL 1940, page 892 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS75324Sail, Lugger View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1940, page 893 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS1200451908, Steam View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1940, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
ALINORA119027Sail, Schooner View entry for ALINORA in MNL 1940, page 896 MHACLIPMore...
ALISON MAY131697Sail, Gaffsail View entry for ALISON MAY in MNL 1940, page 896 MHACLIPMore...
AMETHYST101499Sail, Schooner View entry for AMETHYST in MNL 1940, page 898 MHACLIPMore...
AMY106246Sail, Schooner View entry for AMY in MNL 1940, page 898 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE118515Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1940, page 900 MHACLIPMore...
ANTEPOLO131678Sail, Ketch View entry for ANTEPOLO in MNL 1940, page 901 MHACLIPMore...
ARCHINA131672Sail, Ketch View entry for ARCHINA in MNL 1940, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
ARU131667Sail, Ketch View entry for ARU in MNL 1940, page 904 MHACLIPMore...
ASAHI120005Sail, Schooner View entry for ASAHI in MNL 1940, page 904 MHACLIPMore...
ASHBURTON75315Sail, Schooner View entry for ASHBURTON in MNL 1940, page 904 MHACLIPMore...
AUK118997Sail, Ketch View entry for AUK in MNL 1940, page 905 MHACLIPMore...
AUMERIC1316321916, Auxilliary motor, page 459 View entry for AUMERIC in MNL 1940, page 459 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Schooner, page 905 View entry for AUMERIC in MNL 1940, page 905 
AURORA118998Sail, Schooner View entry for AURORA in MNL 1940, page 906 MHACLIPMore...
AWANDRA1401661930, Motor View entry for AWANDRA in MNL 1940, page 460 MHACLIPMore...
AWANUI II131700Sail, Sloop View entry for AWANUI II in MNL 1940, page 906 MHACLIPMore...
AWANUI III140174Sail, Sloop View entry for AWANUI III in MNL 1940, page 907 MHACLIPMore...
AWHINA875281900, Steam View entry for AWHINA in MNL 1940, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
AXIS131624Sail, Schooner View entry for AXIS in MNL 1940, page 907 MHACLIPMore...
BALFOUR-MATTHEW83647Sail, Lugger View entry for BALFOUR-MATTHEW in MNL 1940, page 909 MHACLIPMore...
BAMBINA1401781934, Motor View entry for BAMBINA in MNL 1940, page 463 MHACLIPMore...
BARBARA124997Sail, Schooner View entry for BARBARA in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BELLA117792Sail, Schooner View entry for BELLA in MNL 1940, page 912 MHACLIPMore...
BERRINGARRA131623Sail, Cutter View entry for BERRINGARRA in MNL 1940, page 913 MHACLIPMore...
BETTY117817Sail, Schooner View entry for BETTY in MNL 1940, page 915 MHACLIPMore...
BETTY MARGARET131640Sail, Schooner View entry for BETTY MARGARET in MNL 1940, page 915 MHACLIPMore...
BINTANG1316581916, Auxilliary motor, page 472 View entry for BINTANG in MNL 1940, page 472 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Schooner, page 915 View entry for BINTANG in MNL 1940, page 915 
BINTANG PUTEH131655Sail, Schooner View entry for BINTANG PUTEH in MNL 1940, page 915 MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE114496Sail, Schooner View entry for BLANCHE in MNL 1940, page 917 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE BIRD1250281910, Motor View entry for BLUE BIRD in MNL 1940, page 474 MHACLIPMore...
BONNIE LASSIE125022Sail, Schooner View entry for BONNIE LASSIE in MNL 1940, page 919 MHACLIPMore...
BONZA125021Sail, Schooner View entry for BONZA in MNL 1940, page 919 MHACLIPMore...
BOREAS140171Sail, Schooner View entry for BOREAS in MNL 1940, page 920 MHACLIPMore...
BOUNCE125029Sail, Schooner View entry for BOUNCE in MNL 1940, page 920 MHACLIPMore...
BOYD131613Sail, Ketch View entry for BOYD in MNL 1940, page 920 MHACLIPMore...
BRONLAN1250341937, Auxilliary motor, page 484 View entry for BRONLAN in MNL 1940, page 484 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Ketch, page 923 View entry for BRONLAN in MNL 1940, page 923 
BRONOLA131685Sail, Schooner View entry for BRONOLA in MNL 1940, page 923 MHACLIPMore...
BRONORA131686Sail, Schooner View entry for BRONORA in MNL 1940, page 923 MHACLIPMore...
BULLETIN125039Sail, Schooner View entry for BULLETIN in MNL 1940, page 924 MHACLIPMore...
BUNBURY125026Sail, Schooner View entry for BUNBURY in MNL 1940, page 924 MHACLIPMore...
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