Ships shown as registered at Shanghai in the Mercantile Navy List for 1900

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.

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
ADA72775Sail, Schooner View entry for ADA in MNL 1900, page 391 MHACLIPMore...
AINOKO72817Sail, Schooner View entry for AINOKO in MNL 1900, page 394 MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL72736Sail View entry for ARIEL in MNL 1900, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
AURI MARU727701881, Steam View entry for AURI MARU in MNL 1900, page 27 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE72737Sail, Schooner View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1900, page 419 MHACLIPMore...
CADIZ31155Sail View entry for CADIZ in MNL 1900, page 433 MHACLIPMore...
CHANG ON728151893, Steam View entry for CHANG ON in MNL 1900, page 65 MHACLIPMore...
CHIN LUNG728291893, Steam View entry for CHIN LUNG in MNL 1900, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
CHIN-ON72872Sail View entry for CHIN-ON in MNL 1900, page 444 MHACLIPMore...
CHINSHAN72836Sail, Lugger View entry for CHINSHAN in MNL 1900, page 444 MHACLIPMore...
COLLINGROVE60990Sail, Ship View entry for COLLINGROVE in MNL 1900, page 448 MHACLIPMore...
CONTEST58065Sail, Barque View entry for CONTEST in MNL 1900, page 451 MHACLIPMore...
COREA21333Sail View entry for COREA in MNL 1900, page 452 MHACLIPMore...
DAI ON72859Sail, Hulk View entry for DAI ON in MNL 1900, page 457 MHACLIPMore...
EILEEN72865Sail, Schooner View entry for EILEEN in MNL 1900, page 474 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH NICHOLSON47226Sail, Barque View entry for ELIZABETH NICHOLSON in MNL 1900, page 764 MHACLIPMore...
ELLA622961889, Steam View entry for ELLA in MNL 1900, page 113 MHACLIPMore...
ESMERALDA72805Sail, Schooner View entry for ESMERALDA in MNL 1900, page 488 MHACLIPMore...
EWO727731882, Steam View entry for EWO in MNL 1900, page 123 MHACLIPMore...
FA FU728561898, Steam View entry for FA FU in MNL 1900, page 125 MHACLIPMore...
FA WAN728541897, Steam View entry for FA WAN in MNL 1900, page 125 MHACLIPMore...
FA-TSAI728551898, Steam View entry for FA-TSAI in MNL 1900, page 125 MHACLIPMore...
FOKELIN485121883, Steam View entry for FOKELIN in MNL 1900, page 133 MHACLIPMore...
FU YUN728371895, Steam View entry for FU YUN in MNL 1900, page 137 MHACLIPMore...
FUH-LE635591883, Steam View entry for FUH-LE in MNL 1900, page 137 MHACLIPMore...
G H WAPPAUS72781Sail, Barque View entry for G H WAPPAUS in MNL 1900, page 508 MHACLIPMore...
GEM727581880, Steam View entry for GEM in MNL 1900, page 141 MHACLIPMore...
GEOFFREY72827Sail View entry for GEOFFREY in MNL 1900, page 511 MHACLIPMore...
GEORGIETTA72838Sail, Hulk View entry for GEORGIETTA in MNL 1900, page 513 MHACLIPMore...
GRIP727661881, Steam View entry for GRIP in MNL 1900, page 153 MHACLIPMore...
GUIDING STAR70927Sail, Barque View entry for GUIDING STAR in MNL 1900, page 522 MHACLIPMore...
GUTZTAFF727991886, Steam View entry for GUTZTAFF in MNL 1900, page 154 MHACLIPMore...
HEDVIG72739Sail, Barque View entry for HEDVIG in MNL 1900, page 529 MHACLIPMore...
HELENA72782Sail, Schooner View entry for HELENA in MNL 1900, page 529 MHACLIPMore...
HERCULES727911884, Steam View entry for HERCULES in MNL 1900, page 162 MHACLIPMore...
HERON679771887, Steam View entry for HERON in MNL 1900, page 163 MHACLIPMore...
HOANG HO727491899, Steam View entry for HOANG HO in MNL 1900, page 166 MHACLIPMore...
HSI SHAN72819Sail, Lugger View entry for HSI SHAN in MNL 1900, page 536 MHACLIPMore...
HYDASPES657301898, Steam View entry for HYDASPES in MNL 1900, page 171 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN PRENTICE72861Sail, Schooner View entry for JOHN PRENTICE in MNL 1900, page 556 MHACLIPMore...
KAIPING72852Sail, Lugger View entry for KAIPING in MNL 1900, page 560 MHACLIPMore...
KEE HING72869Sail, Lighter View entry for KEE HING in MNL 1900, page 562 MHACLIPMore...
KONG NAM728501897, Steam View entry for KONG NAM in MNL 1900, page 198 MHACLIPMore...
KONGOO728481896, Steam View entry for KONGOO in MNL 1900, page 198 MHACLIPMore...
LANCHOW72843Sail, Lugger View entry for LANCHOW in MNL 1900, page 571 MHACLIPMore...
LEECHNEN728581898, Steam View entry for LEECHNEN in MNL 1900, page 206 MHACLIPMore...
LOTUS72807Sail, Lugger View entry for LOTUS in MNL 1900, page 585 MHACLIPMore...
LUCIA70689Sail, Barque View entry for LUCIA in MNL 1900, page 586 MHACLIPMore...
LUTAI72841Sail, Lugger View entry for LUTAI in MNL 1900, page 587 MHACLIPMore...
MADRAS31143Sail View entry for MADRAS in MNL 1900, page 590 MHACLIPMore...
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