Ships shown as registered at Basseterre, St Kitts 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  ? .

Records for Basseterre, St Kitts may also be found under St Christopher or St Kitts.

Click a port name to see the records for that port

To show records for all the ports together, please click here

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ADVANCE108592Sail, Sloop View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1920, page 670 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRIA MURIEL129612Sail, Schooner View entry for ALEXANDRIA MURIEL in MNL 1920, page 674 MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED80220Sail, Sloop View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1920, page 674 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA GUMBS122678Sail, Sloop View entry for ANNA GUMBS in MNL 1920, page 681 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE66102Sail, Sloop View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1920, page 682 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA JOHNSON129619Sail, Sloop View entry for BERTHA JOHNSON in MNL 1920, page 697 MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY R122677Sail, Sloop View entry for BETSEY R in MNL 1920, page 699 MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA101526Sail, Sloop View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1920, page 705 MHACLIPMore...
CALYPSO97458Sail, Sloop View entry for CALYPSO in MNL 1920, page 710 MHACLIPMore...
CASSOWARY94004Sail, Sloop View entry for CASSOWARY in MNL 1920, page 713 MHACLIPMore...
CEDAR BRANCH122676Sail, Sloop View entry for CEDAR BRANCH in MNL 1920, page 715 MHACLIPMore...
COMET139463Sail, Sloop View entry for COMET in MNL 1920, page 724 MHACLIPMore...
CONFIDENCE97460Sail, Schooner View entry for CONFIDENCE in MNL 1920, page 725 MHACLIPMore...
CONVINCER139468Sail, Sloop View entry for CONVINCER in MNL 1920, page 726 MHACLIPMore...
CROWN OF GRANADA139464Sail, Sloop View entry for CROWN OF GRANADA in MNL 1920, page 730 MHACLIPMore...
DAUNTLESS94003Sail, Sloop View entry for DAUNTLESS in MNL 1920, page 736 MHACLIPMore...
DORA HENVILLE122672Sail, Sloop View entry for DORA HENVILLE in MNL 1920, page 742 MHACLIPMore...
DUCHESS P129620Sail, Sloop View entry for DUCHESS P in MNL 1920, page 746 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH AMY129607Sail, Sloop View entry for EDITH AMY in MNL 1920, page 751 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD64009Sail, Brigantine View entry for EDWARD in MNL 1920, page 752 MHACLIPMore...
EILEEN139461Sail, Sloop View entry for EILEEN in MNL 1920, page 754 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH61753Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1920, page 756 MHACLIPMore...
ELLA74858Sail, Sloop View entry for ELLA in MNL 1920, page 757 MHACLIPMore...
ELLA FLORENCE104994Sail, Sloop View entry for ELLA FLORENCE in MNL 1920, page 757 MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS104995Sail, Sloop View entry for EMPRESS in MNL 1920, page 762 MHACLIPMore...
ENDURANCE139466Sail, Sloop View entry for ENDURANCE in MNL 1920, page 762 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS42026Sail, Schooner View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1920, page 770 MHACLIPMore...
GAZELLE108603Sail, Sloop View entry for GAZELLE in MNL 1920, page 788 MHACLIPMore...
GENESTA108599Sail, Sloop View entry for GENESTA in MNL 1920, page 789 MHACLIPMore...
GLADYS108600Sail, Sloop View entry for GLADYS in MNL 1920, page 793 MHACLIPMore...
GOOD TEMPLAR94010Sail, Sloop View entry for GOOD TEMPLAR in MNL 1920, page 796 MHACLIPMore...
GREENWOOD1015301895, Steam View entry for GREENWOOD in MNL 1920, page 243 MHACLIPMore...
HELENE83573Sail, Sloop View entry for HELENE in MNL 1920, page 808 MHACLIPMore...
HENKES104991Sail, Sloop View entry for HENKES in MNL 1920, page 809 MHACLIPMore...
IDA139467Sail, Sloop View entry for IDA in MNL 1920, page 816 MHACLIPMore...
INDEPENDENT101529Sail, Sloop View entry for INDEPENDENT in MNL 1920, page 818 MHACLIPMore...
INDIAN LEOPARD129611Sail, Sloop View entry for INDIAN LEOPARD in MNL 1920, page 818 MHACLIPMore...
ISELINA122663Sail, Sloop View entry for ISELINA in MNL 1920, page 822 MHACLIPMore...
ISMAY129609Sail, Sloop View entry for ISMAY in MNL 1920, page 823 MHACLIPMore...
ITALIA48102Sail, Brig View entry for ITALIA in MNL 1920, page 823 MHACLIPMore...
LADY JANE129615Sail, Sloop View entry for LADY JANE in MNL 1920, page 848 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZIE69559Sail, Sloop View entry for LIZZIE in MNL 1920, page 860 MHACLIPMore...
LOTTIE JONES122679Sail, Sloop View entry for LOTTIE JONES in MNL 1920, page 863 MHACLIPMore...
MAYFLOWER94001Sail, Sloop View entry for MAYFLOWER in MNL 1920, page 888 MHACLIPMore...
MEADOW104998Sail, Sloop View entry for MEADOW in MNL 1920, page 889 MHACLIPMore...
NELLA122662Sail, Sloop View entry for NELLA in MNL 1920, page 904 MHACLIPMore...
PEARL75097Sail, Sloop View entry for PEARL in MNL 1920, page 926 MHACLIPMore...
PLEASURE97453Sail, Sloop View entry for PLEASURE in MNL 1920, page 932 MHACLIPMore...
PRIDE108595Sail, Sloop View entry for PRIDE in MNL 1920, page 935 MHACLIPMore...
PRINCESS ROYAL139462Sail, Sloop View entry for PRINCESS ROYAL in MNL 1920, page 936 MHACLIPMore...
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