Ships shown as registered at Cork 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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ACADIA16271Sail View entry for ACADIA in MNL 1870, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVE39311Sail View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1870, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
AEOLUS27349Sail View entry for AEOLUS in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AGNUS28000Sail View entry for AGNUS in MNL 1870, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
AILEEN44402Sail View entry for AILEEN in MNL 1870, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS20900Sail View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1870, page 10 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT8568Steam View entry for ALBERT in MNL 1870, page 10 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA13963Sail View entry for ALEXANDRINA VICTORIA in MNL 1870, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE8455Sail View entry for ALICE in MNL 1870, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ALMA39078Sail View entry for ALMA in MNL 1870, page 16 MHACLIPMore...
ALMA45465Sail View entry for ALMA in MNL 1870, page 16 MHACLIPMore...
ANDOVER39874Sail View entry for ANDOVER in MNL 1870, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
ANN25140Sail View entry for ANN in MNL 1870, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE8484Sail View entry for ANNE in MNL 1870, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE58553Sail View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1870, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ARGONAUT8305Sail View entry for ARGONAUT in MNL 1870, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL13175Sail View entry for ARIEL in MNL 1870, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
ARRAN CASTLE15272Steam View entry for ARRAN CASTLE in MNL 1870, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR WHITE25411Sail View entry for ARTHUR WHITE in MNL 1870, page 33 MHACLIPMore...
AVALANCHE44420Sail View entry for AVALANCHE in MNL 1870, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
BANTRY44414Sail View entry for BANTRY in MNL 1870, page 38 MHACLIPMore...
BAT44410Sail View entry for BAT in MNL 1870, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BEAVER8429Sail View entry for BEAVER in MNL 1870, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
BEDOUIN21384Sail View entry for BEDOUIN in MNL 1870, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
BEE21025Sail View entry for BEE in MNL 1870, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
BELLE5867Sail View entry for BELLE in MNL 1870, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
BITTERN11600Steam View entry for BITTERN in MNL 1870, page 45 MHACLIPMore...
BLARNEY44397Sail View entry for BLARNEY in MNL 1870, page 46 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE-EYED MAID52544Sail View entry for BLUE-EYED MAID in MNL 1870, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BRICK8370Sail View entry for BRICK in MNL 1870, page 50 MHACLIPMore...
BRILLIANT44403Sail View entry for BRILLIANT in MNL 1870, page 51 MHACLIPMore...
BROTHERS27997Sail View entry for BROTHERS in MNL 1870, page 54 MHACLIPMore...
BROTHERS & SISTERS8387Sail View entry for BROTHERS & SISTERS in MNL 1870, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
BRUNEL28337Steam View entry for BRUNEL in MNL 1870, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA8377Sail View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1870, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA10147Sail View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1870, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
CAMILLA17063Sail View entry for CAMILLA in MNL 1870, page 59 MHACLIPMore...
CANADA8438Sail View entry for CANADA in MNL 1870, page 59 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE10130Sail View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1870, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE39094Sail View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1870, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE5868Sail View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1870, page 63 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE8306Sail View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1870, page 63 MHACLIPMore...
CELANDINE7388Sail View entry for CELANDINE in MNL 1870, page 65 MHACLIPMore...
CERES55496Steam View entry for CERES in MNL 1870, page 66 MHACLIPMore...
CHANCE10154Sail View entry for CHANCE in MNL 1870, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE58548Sail View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1870, page 69 MHACLIPMore...
CHLOE52552Steam View entry for CHLOE in MNL 1870, page 71 MHACLIPMore...
CITIZEN29423Steam View entry for CITIZEN in MNL 1870, page 73 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF CORK52560Steam View entry for CITY OF CORK in MNL 1870, page 73 MHACLIPMore...
COLLINA25446Sail View entry for COLLINA in MNL 1870, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
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