Ships shown as registered at Shanghai in the Mercantile Navy List for 1910

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
A 1114387Sail, Schooner View entry for A 1 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 10120124Sail, Schooner View entry for A 10 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 11120125Sail, Schooner View entry for A 11 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 12120126Sail, Schooner View entry for A 12 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 2114388Sail, Schooner View entry for A 2 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 3114389Sail, Schooner View entry for A 3 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 4114390Sail, Schooner View entry for A 4 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 5114391Sail, Schooner View entry for A 5 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 6114396Sail, Schooner View entry for A 6 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 7114399Sail, Schooner View entry for A 7 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 8114400Sail, Schooner View entry for A 8 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A 9120123Sail, Schooner View entry for A 9 in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
A M BISBEE729191903, Steam View entry for A M BISBEE in MNL 1910, page 1 MHACLIPMore...
ADA72775Sail, Schooner View entry for ADA in MNL 1910, page 566 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS728951901, Steam View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1910, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION114378Sail View entry for ALBION in MNL 1910, page 572 MHACLIPMore...
ALECTO120163Sail View entry for ALECTO in MNL 1910, page 572 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRA1201471905, Steam View entry for ALEXANDRA in MNL 1910, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ALGERINE72890Sail, Lugger View entry for ALGERINE in MNL 1910, page 574 MHACLIPMore...
AMEER114369Sail View entry for AMEER in MNL 1910, page 578 MHACLIPMore...
ANAMBA1239171909, Steam View entry for ANAMBA in MNL 1910, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL127184Sail View entry for ARIEL in MNL 1910, page 587 MHACLIPMore...
ASIA1201851907, Steam View entry for ASIA in MNL 1910, page 33 MHACLIPMore...
ASIATICA1271731909, Steam View entry for ASIATICA in MNL 1910, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
ATROPOS120164Sail View entry for ATROPOS in MNL 1910, page 590 MHACLIPMore...
AURI MARU727701881, Steam View entry for AURI MARU in MNL 1910, page 37 MHACLIPMore...
B 1120127Sail, Lugger View entry for B 1 in MNL 1910, page 593 MHACLIPMore...
B 2120128Sail, Lugger View entry for B 2 in MNL 1910, page 593 MHACLIPMore...
B 3120129Sail, Lugger View entry for B 3 in MNL 1910, page 593 MHACLIPMore...
B 4120130Sail, Lugger View entry for B 4 in MNL 1910, page 593 MHACLIPMore...
B 5120131Sail, Lugger View entry for B 5 in MNL 1910, page 593 MHACLIPMore...
BRITON114379Sail View entry for BRITON in MNL 1910, page 608 MHACLIPMore...
CADIZ31155Sail View entry for CADIZ in MNL 1910, page 612 MHACLIPMore...
CANTON816401906, Steam View entry for CANTON in MNL 1910, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
CASTOR1271791908, Steam View entry for CASTOR in MNL 1910, page 87 MHACLIPMore...
CHANGLI120191Sail, Lugger View entry for CHANGLI in MNL 1910, page 620 MHACLIPMore...
CHEFOO736261905, Steam View entry for CHEFOO in MNL 1910, page 93 MHACLIPMore...
CHIN LUNG728291893, Steam View entry for CHIN LUNG in MNL 1910, page 95 MHACLIPMore...
CHINSHAN72836Sail, Lugger View entry for CHINSHAN in MNL 1910, page 623 MHACLIPMore...
CHINWO72790Sail View entry for CHINWO in MNL 1910, page 623 MHACLIPMore...
CIGARETTE1201711906, Steam View entry for CIGARETTE in MNL 1910, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CLOTHO120160Sail View entry for CLOTHO in MNL 1910, page 626 MHACLIPMore...
CLUTHA X1271741908, Steam View entry for CLUTHA X in MNL 1910, page 107 MHACLIPMore...
COQUETTE120189Sail, Cutter View entry for COQUETTE in MNL 1910, page 631 MHACLIPMore...
DAISY127185Sail, Lugger View entry for DAISY in MNL 1910, page 638 MHACLIPMore...
DREDGER1201511905, Steam View entry for DREDGER in MNL 1910, page 142 MHACLIPMore...
ELISABETH NICHOLSON47226Sail, Brigantine View entry for ELISABETH NICHOLSON in MNL 1910, page 659 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY114353Sail, Lugger View entry for EMILY in MNL 1910, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
ERIN114380Sail View entry for ERIN in MNL 1910, page 671 MHACLIPMore...
EVADNE120196Sail, Cutter View entry for EVADNE in MNL 1910, page 675 MHACLIPMore...
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