Ships shown as registered at St George's, Grenada 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 St George's, Grenada may also be found under Grenada.

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
ADVANCE II125289Sail, Sloop View entry for ADVANCE II in MNL 1920, page 670 MHACLIPMore...
ADVENTURESS125292Sail, Sloop View entry for ADVENTURESS in MNL 1920, page 670 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRINE125283Sail, Sloop View entry for ALEXANDRINE in MNL 1920, page 674 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE105149Sail, Schooner View entry for ALICE in MNL 1920, page 675 MHACLIPMore...
ANN REBECCA125282Sail, Sloop View entry for ANN REBECCA in MNL 1920, page 681 MHACLIPMore...
ARKE125281Sail, Sloop View entry for ARKE in MNL 1920, page 686 MHACLIPMore...
BELLUS135405Sail, Sloop View entry for BELLUS in MNL 1920, page 696 MHACLIPMore...
BUSY BELLE140487Sail, Sloop View entry for BUSY BELLE in MNL 1920, page 707 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE91563Sail, Sloop View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1920, page 714 MHACLIPMore...
CINDERELLA H135419Sail, Sloop View entry for CINDERELLA H in MNL 1920, page 720 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA105141Sail, Sloop View entry for CLARA in MNL 1920, page 721 MHACLIPMore...
CLUTHA125271Sail, Sloop View entry for CLUTHA in MNL 1920, page 722 MHACLIPMore...
COLUMBIA125280Sail, Sloop View entry for COLUMBIA in MNL 1920, page 724 MHACLIPMore...
COMMODORE110271Sail, Schooner View entry for COMMODORE in MNL 1920, page 724 MHACLIPMore...
COMPANIERO140484Sail, Sloop View entry for COMPANIERO in MNL 1920, page 724 MHACLIPMore...
CONCORD125274Sail, Sloop View entry for CONCORD in MNL 1920, page 725 MHACLIPMore...
CONQUER ALL135396Sail, Sloop View entry for CONQUER ALL in MNL 1920, page 725 MHACLIPMore...
CONSOLATION F135403Sail, Sloop View entry for CONSOLATION F in MNL 1920, page 725 MHACLIPMore...
CONSTANT J125296Sail, Sloop View entry for CONSTANT J in MNL 1920, page 725 MHACLIPMore...
CORONET MAC125287Sail, Sloop View entry for CORONET MAC in MNL 1920, page 727 MHACLIPMore...
DARING101685Sail, Sloop View entry for DARING in MNL 1920, page 735 MHACLIPMore...
DIANA117909Sail, Sloop View entry for DIANA in MNL 1920, page 740 MHACLIPMore...
DIDO117927Sail, Sloop View entry for DIDO in MNL 1920, page 740 MHACLIPMore...
DIGNITY125276Sail, Sloop View entry for DIGNITY in MNL 1920, page 740 MHACLIPMore...
DOROTHY E135399Sail, Sloop View entry for DOROTHY E in MNL 1920, page 743 MHACLIPMore...
EASTERN STAR135402Sail, Sloop View entry for EASTERN STAR in MNL 1920, page 749 MHACLIPMore...
ELLA LEONORA140501Sail, Sloop View entry for ELLA LEONORA in MNL 1920, page 757 MHACLIPMore...
ELMA110274Sail, Sloop View entry for ELMA in MNL 1920, page 758 MHACLIPMore...
EMMET110278Sail, Sloop View entry for EMMET in MNL 1920, page 762 MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS117915Sail, Sloop View entry for EMPRESS in MNL 1920, page 762 MHACLIPMore...
ERMINE140492Sail, Sloop View entry for ERMINE in MNL 1920, page 764 MHACLIPMore...
ESTELLINA140488Sail, Sloop View entry for ESTELLINA in MNL 1920, page 765 MHACLIPMore...
EVA LOUISA140495Sail, Sloop View entry for EVA LOUISA in MNL 1920, page 768 MHACLIPMore...
EVERLINA125293Sail, Sloop View entry for EVERLINA in MNL 1920, page 769 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELLENCE140497Sail, Sloop View entry for EXCELLENCE in MNL 1920, page 769 MHACLIPMore...
FAITH91566Sail, Sloop View entry for FAITH in MNL 1920, page 772 MHACLIPMore...
FELICITY B140485Sail, Sloop View entry for FELICITY B in MNL 1920, page 774 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE EUGENIA140498Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORENCE EUGENIA in MNL 1920, page 777 MHACLIPMore...
FLORIS & MAC140502Sail, Sloop View entry for FLORIS & MAC in MNL 1920, page 778 MHACLIPMore...
FOREMOST110300Sail, Sloop View entry for FOREMOST in MNL 1920, page 779 MHACLIPMore...
GRACE105135Sail, Sloop View entry for GRACE in MNL 1920, page 797 MHACLIPMore...
GRACE J135416Sail, Sloop View entry for GRACE J in MNL 1920, page 797 MHACLIPMore...
GUIDING STAR110273Sail, Sloop View entry for GUIDING STAR in MNL 1920, page 799 MHACLIPMore...
HAZARD117911Sail, Sloop View entry for HAZARD in MNL 1920, page 807 MHACLIPMore...
HEED105127Sail, Sloop View entry for HEED in MNL 1920, page 808 MHACLIPMore...
HENRIETTA ACKIE135398Sail, Sloop View entry for HENRIETTA ACKIE in MNL 1920, page 809 MHACLIPMore...
HONOUR91579Sail, Sloop View entry for HONOUR in MNL 1920, page 813 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE43367Sail, Schooner View entry for HOPE in MNL 1920, page 813 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE C140486Sail, Sloop View entry for HOPE C in MNL 1920, page 813 MHACLIPMore...
ISLAND GEM110276Sail, Sloop View entry for ISLAND GEM in MNL 1920, page 823 MHACLIPMore...
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