Ships shown as registered at Winnipeg in the Mercantile Navy List for 1940

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
AKLAVIK1507961937, Motor View entry for AKLAVIK in MNL 1940, page 438 MHACLIPMore...
ALDA II1571651935, Motor View entry for ALDA II in MNL 1940, page 439 MHACLIPMore...
AMELIA MAC1302711910, Steam View entry for AMELIA MAC in MNL 1940, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ARMENON1386241919, Steam View entry for ARMENON in MNL 1940, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
ATHABASCA RIVER1507921922, Steam View entry for ATHABASCA RIVER in MNL 1940, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
BALDUR1302741911, Steam View entry for BALDUR in MNL 1940, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE 100152585Sail View entry for BARGE 100 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE 201156562Sail View entry for BARGE 201 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE 203157171Sail View entry for BARGE 203 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE 204157172Sail View entry for BARGE 204 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE 300152586Sail View entry for BARGE 300 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 150157161Sail View entry for BARGE NO 150 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 206171633Sail View entry for BARGE NO 206 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 207171634Sail View entry for BARGE NO 207 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 250171635Sail View entry for BARGE NO 250 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 252171636Sail View entry for BARGE NO 252 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 253171637Sail View entry for BARGE NO 253 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 302171638Sail View entry for BARGE NO 302 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARGE NO 9156580Sail View entry for BARGE NO 9 in MNL 1940, page 910 MHACLIPMore...
BARNEY THOMAS1565691931, Motor View entry for BARNEY THOMAS in MNL 1940, page 464 MHACLIPMore...
BEAVER LAKE1716321939, Motor View entry for BEAVER LAKE in MNL 1940, page 466 MHACLIPMore...
BETTYLEW1571641935, Motor View entry for BETTYLEW in MNL 1940, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
BJORNSON H1525891929, Motor View entry for BJORNSON H in MNL 1940, page 473 MHACLIPMore...
BRADBURY1525811926, Steam View entry for BRADBURY in MNL 1940, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BUCK1525881935, Motor View entry for BUCK in MNL 1940, page 485 MHACLIPMore...
BUFFALO LAKE1565671931, Motor View entry for BUFFALO LAKE in MNL 1940, page 485 MHACLIPMore...
CANADUSA1505211921, Motor View entry for CANADUSA in MNL 1940, page 490 MHACLIPMore...
CHICKAMA1565721932, Motor View entry for CHICKAMA in MNL 1940, page 501 MHACLIPMore...
CROSS FOX1571701938, Motor View entry for CROSS FOX in MNL 1940, page 514 MHACLIPMore...
DEASE LAKE1565791935, Motor View entry for DEASE LAKE in MNL 1940, page 521 MHACLIPMore...
DIAMOND QUEEN1571761938, Motor View entry for DIAMOND QUEEN in MNL 1940, page 525 MHACLIPMore...
DISTRIBUTOR III1505231921, Steam View entry for DISTRIBUTOR III in MNL 1940, page 109 MHACLIPMore...
ELINOR J1565641930, Motor View entry for ELINOR J in MNL 1940, page 542 MHACLIPMore...
ENGLISH BROOK1525871928, Motor View entry for ENGLISH BROOK in MNL 1940, page 547 MHACLIPMore...
EVELYN J1565751932, Motor View entry for EVELYN J in MNL 1940, page 554 MHACLIPMore...
FLYING STAR1565631929, Motor View entry for FLYING STAR in MNL 1940, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
FOND DU LAC1507971923, Motor View entry for FOND DU LAC in MNL 1940, page 564 MHACLIPMore...
FORT NELSON150798Sail View entry for FORT NELSON in MNL 1940, page 990 MHACLIPMore...
FORT RESOLUTION1505261922, Motor View entry for FORT RESOLUTION in MNL 1940, page 565 MHACLIPMore...
FORT ROSS1571741938, Motor View entry for FORT ROSS in MNL 1940, page 565 MHACLIPMore...
FRIDAY1384121916, Steam View entry for FRIDAY in MNL 1940, page 144 MHACLIPMore...
GOLDFIELD1342521914, Steam View entry for GOLDFIELD in MNL 1940, page 156 MHACLIPMore...
GRACE J1571631935, Motor View entry for GRACE J in MNL 1940, page 582 MHACLIPMore...
GRANITE ROCK1342511914, Steam View entry for GRANITE ROCK in MNL 1940, page 159 MHACLIPMore...
HEARNE LAKE1565781935, Motor View entry for HEARNE LAKE in MNL 1940, page 594 MHACLIPMore...
HECLA1384131916, Steam View entry for HECLA in MNL 1940, page 171 MHACLIPMore...
HUSK1571731938, Motor View entry for HUSK in MNL 1940, page 603 MHACLIPMore...
IDELL1001351892, Steam View entry for IDELL in MNL 1940, page 183 MHACLIPMore...
J H MONTGOMERY1384151938, Steam View entry for J H MONTGOMERY in MNL 1940, page 190 MHACLIPMore...
J R SPEAR1222731909, Motor View entry for J R SPEAR in MNL 1940, page 616 MHACLIPMore...
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