Ships shown as registered at Cork 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  ? .

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
AEOLIA82779Sail, Cutter View entry for AEOLIA in MNL 1915, page 658 MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT844511881, Steam View entry for ALBERT in MNL 1915, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
AORANGI1080081899, Motor View entry for AORANGI in MNL 1915, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ARDMORE1283011909, Steam View entry for ARDMORE in MNL 1915, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
AVOCET1095071900, Steam View entry for AVOCET in MNL 1915, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
BANDON1283051910, Steam View entry for BANDON in MNL 1915, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BEAMISH & CRAWFORD1201011905, Motor View entry for BEAMISH & CRAWFORD in MNL 1915, page 53 MHACLIPMore...
BITTERN1283081912, Steam View entry for BITTERN in MNL 1915, page 65 MHACLIPMore...
CAMEO569271899, Steam View entry for CAMEO in MNL 1915, page 89 MHACLIPMore...
CARTSBURN761841899, Steam View entry for CARTSBURN in MNL 1915, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CLISHAM78252Sail, Dandy View entry for CLISHAM in MNL 1915, page 715 MHACLIPMore...
COCKCHAFER844691885, Steam View entry for COCKCHAFER in MNL 1915, page 123 MHACLIPMore...
COLLEEN802111913, Motor View entry for COLLEEN in MNL 1915, page 124 MHACLIPMore...
DAMSEL1283071911, Motor View entry for DAMSEL in MNL 1915, page 146 MHACLIPMore...
DOTTEREL1151181904, Steam View entry for DOTTEREL in MNL 1915, page 162 MHACLIPMore...
EGRET1151171903, Steam View entry for EGRET in MNL 1915, page 178 MHACLIPMore...
ELFIN68097Sail View entry for ELFIN in MNL 1915, page 748 MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE92008Sail, Yawl View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1915, page 758 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA92006Sail View entry for FLORA in MNL 1915, page 772 MHACLIPMore...
FROLIC74614Sail, Yawl View entry for FROLIC in MNL 1915, page 780 MHACLIPMore...
FULMAR1151121902, Steam View entry for FULMAR in MNL 1915, page 221 MHACLIPMore...
GERALDINE96118Sail, Ketch View entry for GERALDINE in MNL 1915, page 787 MHACLIPMore...
GIOLLA FARRAIGE1201101909, Motor View entry for GIOLLA FARRAIGE in MNL 1915, page 230 MHACLIPMore...
GLENGARIFF1018371893, Steam View entry for GLENGARIFF in MNL 1915, page 235 MHACLIPMore...
HARELDA1095101901, Steam View entry for HARELDA in MNL 1915, page 253 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE526481902, Steam View entry for HOPE in MNL 1915, page 271 MHACLIPMore...
IMBER1357161914, Steam View entry for IMBER in MNL 1915, page 281 MHACLIPMore...
INNISCARRA1151161903, Steam View entry for INNISCARRA in MNL 1915, page 285 MHACLIPMore...
INNISFALLEN1066021896, Steam View entry for INNISFALLEN in MNL 1915, page 285 MHACLIPMore...
JABIRU1283061911, Steam View entry for JABIRU in MNL 1915, page 296 MHACLIPMore...
JAMES O'NEILL115120Sail, Schooner View entry for JAMES O'NEILL in MNL 1915, page 826 MHACLIPMore...
KATHLEEN & MAY104473Sail, Schooner View entry for KATHLEEN & MAY in MNL 1915, page 839 MHACLIPMore...
KELPIE68811Sail, Cutter View entry for KELPIE in MNL 1915, page 840 MHACLIPMore...
KENMARE1042781895, Steam View entry for KENMARE in MNL 1915, page 315 MHACLIPMore...
KITTIWAKE1201071906, Steam View entry for KITTIWAKE in MNL 1915, page 323 MHACLIPMore...
LADY ELSIE1201061906, Steam View entry for LADY ELSIE in MNL 1915, page 331 MHACLIPMore...
LESTRIS1201021905, Steam View entry for LESTRIS in MNL 1915, page 341 MHACLIPMore...
LILY1062791898, Steam View entry for LILY in MNL 1915, page 345 MHACLIPMore...
LISMORE1201041905, Steam View entry for LISMORE in MNL 1915, page 347 MHACLIPMore...
LOUGH MAHON1062721897, Steam View entry for LOUGH MAHON in MNL 1915, page 358 MHACLIPMore...
MABEL979591910, Steam View entry for MABEL in MNL 1915, page 364 MHACLIPMore...
MAID OF ERIN84465Sail, Yawl View entry for MAID OF ERIN in MNL 1915, page 874 MHACLIPMore...
MARAQUITA1051671913, Motor View entry for MARAQUITA in MNL 1915, page 374 MHACLIPMore...
MARION96108Sail, Schooner View entry for MARION in MNL 1915, page 881 MHACLIPMore...
MERGANSER1201091908, Steam View entry for MERGANSER in MNL 1915, page 389 MHACLIPMore...
MESSENGER II1283021909, Motor View entry for MESSENGER II in MNL 1915, page 390 MHACLIPMore...
MINNEHAHA18185Sail, Schooner View entry for MINNEHAHA in MNL 1915, page 899 MHACLIPMore...
NUMBER ONE585511869, Steam View entry for NUMBER ONE in MNL 1915, page 427 MHACLIPMore...
NUMBER TWO585521869, Steam View entry for NUMBER TWO in MNL 1915, page 427 MHACLIPMore...
NYROCA1151151903, Steam View entry for NYROCA in MNL 1915, page 430 MHACLIPMore...
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