Ships shown as registered at Winnipeg in the Mercantile Navy List for 1890

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
ALGOMA780081883, Steam View entry for ALGOMA in MNL 1890, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE SPRAGUE904511887, Steam View entry for ALICE SPRAGUE in MNL 1890, page 10 MHACLIPMore...
ALMA T926921889, Steam View entry for ALMA T in MNL 1890, page 10 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE92699Sail View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1890, page 292 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE MC904471888, Steam View entry for ANNIE MC in MNL 1890, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE904521888, Steam View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1890, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ARK90450Sail View entry for ARK in MNL 1890, page 298 MHACLIPMore...
AURORA904421889, Steam View entry for AURORA in MNL 1890, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
BERENS RIVER88477Sail View entry for BERENS RIVER in MNL 1890, page 308 MHACLIPMore...
CALDWELL78013Sail View entry for CALDWELL in MNL 1890, page 321 MHACLIPMore...
CARO780121888, Steam View entry for CARO in MNL 1890, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
CHIEFTAIN926981889, Steam View entry for CHIEFTAIN in MNL 1890, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
CHIPPEWA78002Sail View entry for CHIPPEWA in MNL 1890, page 333 MHACLIPMore...
CHURCHILL RIVER90454Sail View entry for CHURCHILL RIVER in MNL 1890, page 334 MHACLIPMore...
COLVILLE740221875, Steam View entry for COLVILLE in MNL 1890, page 56 MHACLIPMore...
COUCHICHING88485Sail View entry for COUCHICHING in MNL 1890, page 343 MHACLIPMore...
COUCHICHING884961885, Steam View entry for COUCHICHING in MNL 1890, page 59 MHACLIPMore...
CRUISER780141884, Steam View entry for CRUISER in MNL 1890, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
D L MATHER780071884, Steam View entry for D L MATHER in MNL 1890, page 64 MHACLIPMore...
DOMINION90458Sail View entry for DOMINION in MNL 1890, page 354 MHACLIPMore...
DRYBERRY884891884, Steam View entry for DRYBERRY in MNL 1890, page 72 MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS780091883, Steam View entry for EMPRESS in MNL 1890, page 83 MHACLIPMore...
FISHER RIVER88487Sail View entry for FISHER RIVER in MNL 1890, page 392 MHACLIPMore...
FLEETWING884921884, Steam View entry for FLEETWING in MNL 1890, page 93 MHACLIPMore...
FORT FRANCIS78011Sail View entry for FORT FRANCIS in MNL 1890, page 398 MHACLIPMore...
FREIGHTER88481Sail View entry for FREIGHTER in MNL 1890, page 401 MHACLIPMore...
GLENDEVON884831884, Steam View entry for GLENDEVON in MNL 1890, page 105 MHACLIPMore...
GOLD SEAL88476Sail, Schooner View entry for GOLD SEAL in MNL 1890, page 414 MHACLIPMore...
GRACE88497Sail View entry for GRACE in MNL 1890, page 416 MHACLIPMore...
GRAHAME884781884, Steam View entry for GRAHAME in MNL 1890, page 108 MHACLIPMore...
GRAND RAPIDS88482Sail View entry for GRAND RAPIDS in MNL 1890, page 416 MHACLIPMore...
HARRY MONTGOMERY904531887, Steam View entry for HARRY MONTGOMERY in MNL 1890, page 113 MHACLIPMore...
HARTY77791Sail, Barge View entry for HARTY in MNL 1890, page 424 MHACLIPMore...
HIGHLAND MAID904591887, Steam View entry for HIGHLAND MAID in MNL 1890, page 118 MHACLIPMore...
IDA904601888, Steam View entry for IDA in MNL 1890, page 123 MHACLIPMore...
KATHLEEN884981885, Steam View entry for KATHLEEN in MNL 1890, page 136 MHACLIPMore...
KEEWATIN926931889, Steam View entry for KEEWATIN in MNL 1890, page 137 MHACLIPMore...
LADY ELLEN740271878, Steam View entry for LADY ELLEN in MNL 1890, page 143 MHACLIPMore...
LADY OF THE LAKE885001885, Steam View entry for LADY OF THE LAKE in MNL 1890, page 144 MHACLIPMore...
LAURA88473Sail View entry for LAURA in MNL 1890, page 472 MHACLIPMore...
MANITOBA88490Sail, Barge View entry for MANITOBA in MNL 1890, page 495 MHACLIPMore...
MARQUETTE777991889, Steam View entry for MARQUETTE in MNL 1890, page 161 MHACLIPMore...
MARQUIS884881884, Steam View entry for MARQUIS in MNL 1890, page 161 MHACLIPMore...
MARY HATCH884911884, Steam View entry for MARY HATCH in MNL 1890, page 162 MHACLIPMore...
MAY QUEEN780171884, Steam View entry for MAY QUEEN in MNL 1890, page 164 MHACLIPMore...
MERMAID92697Sail View entry for MERMAID in MNL 1890, page 519 MHACLIPMore...
MILES926961889, Steam View entry for MILES in MNL 1890, page 167 MHACLIPMore...
MILLIE HOWELL904481886, Steam View entry for MILLIE HOWELL in MNL 1890, page 167 MHACLIPMore...
MINNOW780181884, Steam View entry for MINNOW in MNL 1890, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
NELLIE77794Sail View entry for NELLIE in MNL 1890, page 532 MHACLIPMore...
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