Ships shown as registered at Gibraltar in the Mercantile Navy List for 1870

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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ADELIA28331Steam View entry for ADELIA in MNL 1870, page 5 MHACLIPMore...
ADOLFO50619Sail View entry for ADOLFO in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AID50620Steam View entry for AID in MNL 1870, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION43035Sail View entry for ALBION in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ANGOSTURA43029Sail View entry for ANGOSTURA in MNL 1870, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ANN40419Sail View entry for ANN in MNL 1870, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ATLANTIC43025Sail View entry for ATLANTIC in MNL 1870, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
BELLA MARIA41696Sail View entry for BELLA MARIA in MNL 1870, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
BELLE43039Sail View entry for BELLE in MNL 1870, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINA41512Sail View entry for CAROLINA in MNL 1870, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
CATHARINE41607Sail View entry for CATHARINE in MNL 1870, page 63 MHACLIPMore...
CELESTIA43019Sail View entry for CELESTIA in MNL 1870, page 65 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA37122Sail View entry for CLARA in MNL 1870, page 74 MHACLIPMore...
CLEMENTINA40417Sail View entry for CLEMENTINA in MNL 1870, page 75 MHACLIPMore...
CONCORDIA11375Sail View entry for CONCORDIA in MNL 1870, page 80 MHACLIPMore...
CRITICADO42034Sail View entry for CRITICADO in MNL 1870, page 85 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN42045Sail View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1870, page 96 MHACLIPMore...
EUGENIE50601Sail View entry for EUGENIE in MNL 1870, page 128 MHACLIPMore...
EUROPE42031Sail View entry for EUROPE in MNL 1870, page 128 MHACLIPMore...
EVELYN43033Sail View entry for EVELYN in MNL 1870, page 129 MHACLIPMore...
FAIRY25203Sail View entry for FAIRY in MNL 1870, page 132 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY37128Sail View entry for FANNY in MNL 1870, page 135 MHACLIPMore...
FIVE SISTERS43037Sail View entry for FIVE SISTERS in MNL 1870, page 139 MHACLIPMore...
FLYING EAGLE43024Sail View entry for FLYING EAGLE in MNL 1870, page 142 MHACLIPMore...
FRANCIS III50604Sail View entry for FRANCIS III in MNL 1870, page 146 MHACLIPMore...
FREDONIA43020Sail View entry for FREDONIA in MNL 1870, page 147 MHACLIPMore...
FUEN SANTA41515Sail View entry for FUEN SANTA in MNL 1870, page 149 MHACLIPMore...
GAZELLE MESHOD40420Sail View entry for GAZELLE MESHOD in MNL 1870, page 152 MHACLIPMore...
GIACOMO37141Sail View entry for GIACOMO in MNL 1870, page 156 MHACLIPMore...
GIBRALTAR43038Sail View entry for GIBRALTAR in MNL 1870, page 156 MHACLIPMore...
GIBRALTAR57767Sail View entry for GIBRALTAR in MNL 1870, page 156 MHACLIPMore...
HECTOR37130Sail View entry for HECTOR in MNL 1870, page 172 MHACLIPMore...
HERCULES56043Steam View entry for HERCULES in MNL 1870, page 176 MHACLIPMore...
HERON41502Sail View entry for HERON in MNL 1870, page 177 MHACLIPMore...
IONIC50603Sail View entry for IONIC in MNL 1870, page 187 MHACLIPMore...
JACKAL56519Steam View entry for JACKAL in MNL 1870, page 192 MHACLIPMore...
JANE42287Sail View entry for JANE in MNL 1870, page 196 MHACLIPMore...
KATE50617Sail View entry for KATE in MNL 1870, page 212 MHACLIPMore...
LA PROTEGE DE LA VIERGE37140Sail View entry for LA PROTEGE DE LA VIERGE in MNL 1870, page 218 MHACLIPMore...
LE LION BELGE29724Steam View entry for LE LION BELGE in MNL 1870, page 224 MHACLIPMore...
LION57766Sail View entry for LION in MNL 1870, page 229 MHACLIPMore...
LORENZITO42042Sail View entry for LORENZITO in MNL 1870, page 234 MHACLIPMore...
LOUISA42048Sail View entry for LOUISA in MNL 1870, page 235 MHACLIPMore...
MANOLITO40425Sail View entry for MANOLITO in MNL 1870, page 242 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA TADEO57763Sail View entry for MARIA TADEO in MNL 1870, page 248 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA TERESA41494Sail View entry for MARIA TERESA in MNL 1870, page 248 MHACLIPMore...
MATILDA37138Sail View entry for MATILDA in MNL 1870, page 263 MHACLIPMore...
MORNING LIGHT43026Sail View entry for MORNING LIGHT in MNL 1870, page 274 MHACLIPMore...
NAVIGATOR50607Sail View entry for NAVIGATOR in MNL 1870, page 278 MHACLIPMore...
NEW NORTH STAR40418Sail View entry for NEW NORTH STAR in MNL 1870, page 281 MHACLIPMore...
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