Ships shown as registered at Gibraltar in the Mercantile Navy List for 1920

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
AFRICA951461893, Steam View entry for AFRICA in MNL 1920, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
AGUILA II1329121914, Motor View entry for AGUILA II in MNL 1920, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
AID1389161916, Steam View entry for AID in MNL 1920, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
AIDA1235601911, Steam View entry for AIDA in MNL 1920, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ALERTA1102311898, Steam View entry for ALERTA in MNL 1920, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ANGEL1329131911, Motor View entry for ANGEL in MNL 1920, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
AQUILON1113271902, Steam View entry for AQUILON in MNL 1920, page 27 MHACLIPMore...
BIENVENIDA1235541912, Motor View entry for BIENVENIDA in MNL 1920, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
CALPE1389181917, Steam View entry for CALPE in MNL 1920, page 85 MHACLIPMore...
CARMENCITA1329211917, Motor View entry for CARMENCITA in MNL 1920, page 93 MHACLIPMore...
CARMINA1389171916, Steam View entry for CARMINA in MNL 1920, page 93 MHACLIPMore...
COMETA1389191917, Steam View entry for COMETA in MNL 1920, page 123 MHACLIPMore...
DOLLIE951421890, Steam View entry for DOLLIE in MNL 1920, page 154 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN1329271915, Motor View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1920, page 154 MHACLIPMore...
DUIDKA1329291916, Motor View entry for DUIDKA in MNL 1920, page 162 MHACLIPMore...
ESCOLASTICA1235561911, Motor View entry for ESCOLASTICA in MNL 1920, page 188 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS1113341904, Steam View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1920, page 195 MHACLIPMore...
F L951491898, Steam View entry for F L in MNL 1920, page 196 MHACLIPMore...
GENERAL MAUDE951431917, Steam View entry for GENERAL MAUDE in MNL 1920, page 223 MHACLIPMore...
GENERAL WILSON1286221919, Steam View entry for GENERAL WILSON in MNL 1920, page 224 MHACLIPMore...
GIBEL DERSA786081906, Steam View entry for GIBEL DERSA in MNL 1920, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
GIBEL HABIB1112781913, Steam View entry for GIBEL HABIB in MNL 1920, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
GIBEL KEBIR1083751901, Steam View entry for GIBEL KEBIR in MNL 1920, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
GIBEL MUSA1059751896, Steam View entry for GIBEL MUSA in MNL 1920, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
GIBEL TARIK897611885, Steam View entry for GIBEL TARIK in MNL 1920, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
HERCULES560431866, Steam View entry for HERCULES in MNL 1920, page 261 MHACLIPMore...
HERMINIA110237Sail, Cutter View entry for HERMINIA in MNL 1920, page 810 MHACLIPMore...
JUANITA1102361899, Steam View entry for JUANITA in MNL 1920, page 306 MHACLIPMore...
JUBILEE951441893, Steam View entry for JUBILEE in MNL 1920, page 306 MHACLIPMore...
LIGHT BRIGADE45775Sail, Barque View entry for LIGHT BRIGADE in MNL 1920, page 855 MHACLIPMore...
LITTLE PET81035Sail, Schooner View entry for LITTLE PET in MNL 1920, page 859 MHACLIPMore...
LOUIS C1389201918, Steam View entry for LOUIS C in MNL 1920, page 359 MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET1113331903, Steam View entry for MARGARET in MNL 1920, page 377 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA DE LORETTO110240Sail, Felucca View entry for MARIA DE LORETTO in MNL 1920, page 876 MHACLIPMore...
MARY1102351913, Steam View entry for MARY in MNL 1920, page 381 MHACLIPMore...
NELLIE951481897, Steam View entry for NELLIE in MNL 1920, page 415 MHACLIPMore...
NELSON1235461916, Motor View entry for NELSON in MNL 1920, page 415 MHACLIPMore...
OLINDA118692Sail, Ketch View entry for OLINDA in MNL 1920, page 916 MHACLIPMore...
PEPICA1235581911, Motor View entry for PEPICA in MNL 1920, page 457 MHACLIPMore...
PEPITA1113261902, Steam View entry for PEPITA in MNL 1920, page 457 MHACLIPMore...
RAFAEL1329301917, Steam View entry for RAFAEL in MNL 1920, page 487 MHACLIPMore...
RAMIS1235511916, Motor View entry for RAMIS in MNL 1920, page 489 MHACLIPMore...
RESCUE1113351904, Steam View entry for RESCUE in MNL 1920, page 496 MHACLIPMore...
RITA951501898, Steam View entry for RITA in MNL 1920, page 501 MHACLIPMore...
ROCKET1237271906, Steam View entry for ROCKET in MNL 1920, page 504 MHACLIPMore...
SAN ANDRES1235501916, Motor View entry for SAN ANDRES in MNL 1920, page 525 MHACLIPMore...
SAN FRANCISCO1235521910, Motor View entry for SAN FRANCISCO in MNL 1920, page 525 MHACLIPMore...
SAN LUIS1329161918, Motor View entry for SAN LUIS in MNL 1920, page 525 MHACLIPMore...
SEAGULL1113321903, Steam View entry for SEAGULL in MNL 1920, page 536 MHACLIPMore...
SUNBEAM1145491916, Motor View entry for SUNBEAM in MNL 1920, page 569 MHACLIPMore...
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