Ships shown as registered at Annapolis, NS in the Mercantile Navy List for 1880

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 B STRONACH69685Sail, Brigantine View entry for A B STRONACH in MNL 1880, page 144 MHACLIPMore...
A ELLIOTT75425Sail, Schooner View entry for A ELLIOTT in MNL 1880, page 145 MHACLIPMore...
ADAH52037Sail, Schooner View entry for ADAH in MNL 1880, page 148 MHACLIPMore...
ADELIA57470Sail, Schooner View entry for ADELIA in MNL 1880, page 149 MHACLIPMore...
ALBUERA69682Sail, Barque View entry for ALBUERA in MNL 1880, page 155 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT69693Sail, Schooner View entry for ALERT in MNL 1880, page 155 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE MILLS42234Sail, Schooner View entry for ALICE MILLS in MNL 1880, page 159 MHACLIPMore...
ALMA48034Sail, Schooner View entry for ALMA in MNL 1880, page 160 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA52032Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNA in MNL 1880, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
ANNAPOLIS69676Sail, Barque View entry for ANNAPOLIS in MNL 1880, page 169 MHACLIPMore...
ARCTIC69680Sail, Brigantine View entry for ARCTIC in MNL 1880, page 175 MHACLIPMore...
ARCTURUS69689Sail, Barque View entry for ARCTURUS in MNL 1880, page 175 MHACLIPMore...
ATWOOD69695Sail, Schooner View entry for ATWOOD in MNL 1880, page 180 MHACLIPMore...
BALTIC75416Sail, Brigantine View entry for BALTIC in MNL 1880, page 183 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE69683Sail, Barque View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1880, page 184 MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH QUEEN52033Sail, Brig View entry for BRITISH QUEEN in MNL 1880, page 198 MHACLIPMore...
C B WEAVER75428Sail, Schooner View entry for C B WEAVER in MNL 1880, page 202 MHACLIPMore...
CARRIBEAN75423Sail, Brigantine View entry for CARRIBEAN in MNL 1880, page 207 MHACLIPMore...
CARRIE DELAP69688Sail, Barque View entry for CARRIE DELAP in MNL 1880, page 208 MHACLIPMore...
COL EDDY75422Sail, Schooner View entry for COL EDDY in MNL 1880, page 222 MHACLIPMore...
COQUETTE41807Sail, Sloop View entry for COQUETTE in MNL 1880, page 226 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN75426Sail, Schooner View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1880, page 241 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN75430Sail, Schooner View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1880, page 241 MHACLIPMore...
DREADNAUGHT57472Sail, Schooner View entry for DREADNAUGHT in MNL 1880, page 243 MHACLIPMore...
E D BIGELOW69691Sail, Barque View entry for E D BIGELOW in MNL 1880, page 245 MHACLIPMore...
EFFIE YOUNG75421Sail, Schooner View entry for EFFIE YOUNG in MNL 1880, page 251 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH69698Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1880, page 256 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZAR BACHELOR48039Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZAR BACHELOR in MNL 1880, page 260 MHACLIPMore...
EMMA E POTTER476Sail, Schooner View entry for EMMA E POTTER in MNL 1880, page 267 MHACLIPMore...
ESCORT52041Sail, Schooner View entry for ESCORT in MNL 1880, page 272 MHACLIPMore...
ETTA57475Sail, Schooner View entry for ETTA in MNL 1880, page 273 MHACLIPMore...
FEARLESS42227Sail, Brigantine View entry for FEARLESS in MNL 1880, page 283 MHACLIPMore...
FOREST57464Sail, Schooner View entry for FOREST in MNL 1880, page 289 MHACLIPMore...
FRANK L69690Sail, Schooner View entry for FRANK L in MNL 1880, page 293 MHACLIPMore...
FRED LEAVITT574781871, Steam View entry for FRED LEAVITT in MNL 1880, page 52 MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE E CORBITT69684Sail, Barkantine View entry for GEORGE E CORBITT in MNL 1880, page 300 MHACLIPMore...
GRACE57469Sail, Barque View entry for GRACE in MNL 1880, page 309 MHACLIPMore...
GRANVILLE BELLE69686Sail, Barque View entry for GRANVILLE BELLE in MNL 1880, page 309 MHACLIPMore...
H K RICHARDS75419Sail, Schooner View entry for H K RICHARDS in MNL 1880, page 313 MHACLIPMore...
HAZELHURST69700Sail, Barque View entry for HAZELHURST in MNL 1880, page 319 MHACLIPMore...
HELENA48035Sail, Schooner View entry for HELENA in MNL 1880, page 321 MHACLIPMore...
HOME54363Sail, Schooner View entry for HOME in MNL 1880, page 327 MHACLIPMore...
I G CURTIS77954Sail, Schooner View entry for I G CURTIS in MNL 1880, page 331 MHACLIPMore...
I W OLIVER57490Sail, Barque View entry for I W OLIVER in MNL 1880, page 331 MHACLIPMore...
IGO80004Sail, Schooner View entry for IGO in MNL 1880, page 333 MHACLIPMore...
IONA75429Sail, Schooner View entry for IONA in MNL 1880, page 336 MHACLIPMore...
ISABELL MOTT69681Sail, Ship View entry for ISABELL MOTT in MNL 1880, page 337 MHACLIPMore...
IVICA69679Sail, Schooner View entry for IVICA in MNL 1880, page 339 MHACLIPMore...
JAMES STAFFORD77955Sail, Barque View entry for JAMES STAFFORD in MNL 1880, page 343 MHACLIPMore...
JESSIE RAY52080Sail, Schooner View entry for JESSIE RAY in MNL 1880, page 351 MHACLIPMore...
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