Ships shown as registered at Barrington, NS 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
AMANDA90426Sail, Schooner View entry for AMANDA in MNL 1890, page 285 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE WILLIAMS85564Sail, Schooner View entry for BESSIE WILLIAMS in MNL 1890, page 309 MHACLIPMore...
DAISY VAUGHAN90427Sail, Schooner View entry for DAISY VAUGHAN in MNL 1890, page 347 MHACLIPMore...
ELDON C77603Sail, Schooner View entry for ELDON C in MNL 1890, page 364 MHACLIPMore...
EMMA B75558Sail, Schooner View entry for EMMA B in MNL 1890, page 376 MHACLIPMore...
FISH HAWK71338Sail, Schooner View entry for FISH HAWK in MNL 1890, page 392 MHACLIPMore...
FREDDIE M REYNOLDS71333Sail, Schooner View entry for FREDDIE M REYNOLDS in MNL 1890, page 400 MHACLIPMore...
GEORGIE HAROLD85568Sail, Schooner View entry for GEORGIE HAROLD in MNL 1890, page 408 MHACLIPMore...
HANNAH ELDRIDGE75552Sail, Schooner View entry for HANNAH ELDRIDGE in MNL 1890, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
HARRY MATHERS75545Sail, Schooner View entry for HARRY MATHERS in MNL 1890, page 423 MHACLIPMore...
HATTIE DELL85570Sail, Schooner View entry for HATTIE DELL in MNL 1890, page 424 MHACLIPMore...
HELENA MAUDE85563Sail, Schooner View entry for HELENA MAUDE in MNL 1890, page 427 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE90879Sail, Schooner View entry for HOPE in MNL 1890, page 432 MHACLIPMore...
J LYONS85566Sail, Schooner View entry for J LYONS in MNL 1890, page 445 MHACLIPMore...
JESSIE B85569Sail, Schooner View entry for JESSIE B in MNL 1890, page 452 MHACLIPMore...
JESSIE NEWELL71331Sail, Schooner View entry for JESSIE NEWELL in MNL 1890, page 452 MHACLIPMore...
JOE HOWE71339Sail, Schooner View entry for JOE HOWE in MNL 1890, page 453 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN MILLARD75779Sail, Schooner View entry for JOHN MILLARD in MNL 1890, page 455 MHACLIPMore...
KATE MCKINNON74051Sail, Schooner View entry for KATE MCKINNON in MNL 1890, page 462 MHACLIPMore...
LAURA E DOUGLASS74054Sail, Schooner View entry for LAURA E DOUGLASS in MNL 1890, page 472 MHACLIPMore...
LETTIE MAY90429Sail, Schooner View entry for LETTIE MAY in MNL 1890, page 476 MHACLIPMore...
LIGHT FOOT74052Sail, Schooner View entry for LIGHT FOOT in MNL 1890, page 477 MHACLIPMore...
MARTINO75550Sail, Schooner View entry for MARTINO in MNL 1890, page 504 MHACLIPMore...
MARY FRANCES74055Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY FRANCES in MNL 1890, page 510 MHACLIPMore...
MARY MAY83434Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY MAY in MNL 1890, page 512 MHACLIPMore...
MATILDA75560Sail, Schooner View entry for MATILDA in MNL 1890, page 514 MHACLIPMore...
MAY QUEEN77618Sail, Schooner View entry for MAY QUEEN in MNL 1890, page 516 MHACLIPMore...
MINNEHAHA74301Sail, Schooner View entry for MINNEHAHA in MNL 1890, page 522 MHACLIPMore...
MYRTLE85477Sail, Schooner View entry for MYRTLE in MNL 1890, page 529 MHACLIPMore...
ORESA85562Sail, Schooner View entry for ORESA in MNL 1890, page 544 MHACLIPMore...
PEERLESS74053Sail, Schooner View entry for PEERLESS in MNL 1890, page 551 MHACLIPMore...
PRECURSOR71035Sail, Schooner View entry for PRECURSOR in MNL 1890, page 559 MHACLIPMore...
RIGHT BOWER75554Sail, Schooner View entry for RIGHT BOWER in MNL 1890, page 575 MHACLIPMore...
RIVER ROSE75547Sail, Schooner View entry for RIVER ROSE in MNL 1890, page 577 MHACLIPMore...
SURPRISE75559Sail, Schooner View entry for SURPRISE in MNL 1890, page 616 MHACLIPMore...
SWAN90431Sail, Schooner View entry for SWAN in MNL 1890, page 618 MHACLIPMore...
WATCHMAN71334Sail, Schooner View entry for WATCHMAN in MNL 1890, page 649 MHACLIPMore...
WILL CARLETON90430Sail, Schooner View entry for WILL CARLETON in MNL 1890, page 655 MHACLIPMore...
ZOUAVE74336Sail, Schooner View entry for ZOUAVE in MNL 1890, page 665 MHACLIPMore...
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