Ships shown as registered at Port Hawkesbury in the Mercantile Navy List for 1915

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 Port Hawkesbury may also be found under Hawkesbury, NS or Ship Harbour, NS.

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
ALERT90736Sail, Schooner View entry for ALERT in MNL 1915, page 662 MHACLIPMore...
CAMPANIA96778Sail, Schooner View entry for CAMPANIA in MNL 1915, page 702 MHACLIPMore...
CHETICAMP126575Sail, Schooner View entry for CHETICAMP in MNL 1915, page 711 MHACLIPMore...
CLANSMAN967621890, Steam View entry for CLANSMAN in MNL 1915, page 118 MHACLIPMore...
COLIBRI85392Sail, Schooner View entry for COLIBRI in MNL 1915, page 716 MHACLIPMore...
CORA WELLS1307871913, Motor View entry for CORA WELLS in MNL 1915, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
CRICKET103324Sail, Schooner View entry for CRICKET in MNL 1915, page 722 MHACLIPMore...
CROWN PRINCE64710Sail, Schooner View entry for CROWN PRINCE in MNL 1915, page 722 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH ANN103325Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH ANN in MNL 1915, page 750 MHACLIPMore...
ELLA MAY103328Sail, Schooner View entry for ELLA MAY in MNL 1915, page 751 MHACLIPMore...
EMMA PROCTOR83083Sail, Schooner View entry for EMMA PROCTOR in MNL 1915, page 756 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY YOUNG77763Sail, Schooner View entry for FANNY YOUNG in MNL 1915, page 769 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA BELL83098Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORA BELL in MNL 1915, page 773 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA MATTHEWS130781Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORA MATTHEWS in MNL 1915, page 773 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE96774Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1915, page 773 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE C LAWRENCE46907Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORENCE C LAWRENCE in MNL 1915, page 774 MHACLIPMore...
FLYING STAR103317Sail, Schooner View entry for FLYING STAR in MNL 1915, page 775 MHACLIPMore...
FRED L M PAINT1117911902, Steam View entry for FRED L M PAINT in MNL 1915, page 219 MHACLIPMore...
GREAT DIPPER126573Sail, Schooner View entry for GREAT DIPPER in MNL 1915, page 795 MHACLIPMore...
HATTIE L B126579Sail, Schooner View entry for HATTIE L B in MNL 1915, page 804 MHACLIPMore...
HECTOR90735Sail, Schooner View entry for HECTOR in MNL 1915, page 805 MHACLIPMore...
HECTOR W MCG90859Sail, Schooner View entry for HECTOR W MCG in MNL 1915, page 805 MHACLIPMore...
HELEN M CROSBY90734Sail, Schooner View entry for HELEN M CROSBY in MNL 1915, page 806 MHACLIPMore...
HENNEPIN126578Sail, Schooner View entry for HENNEPIN in MNL 1915, page 806 MHACLIPMore...
HENRY L PHILLIPS103311Sail, Schooner View entry for HENRY L PHILLIPS in MNL 1915, page 807 MHACLIPMore...
HILDA MAUDE100161Sail, Schooner View entry for HILDA MAUDE in MNL 1915, page 810 MHACLIPMore...
ISOBEL1117961906, Motor View entry for ISOBEL in MNL 1915, page 293 MHACLIPMore...
J S M130785Sail, Schooner View entry for J S M in MNL 1915, page 823 MHACLIPMore...
JENNIE83091Sail, Schooner View entry for JENNIE in MNL 1915, page 829 MHACLIPMore...
JOSEPH ANN83097Sail, Schooner View entry for JOSEPH ANN in MNL 1915, page 834 MHACLIPMore...
KARINA II130782Sail, Schooner View entry for KARINA II in MNL 1915, page 838 MHACLIPMore...
KATIE J111795Sail, Schooner View entry for KATIE J in MNL 1915, page 839 MHACLIPMore...
LAURA103316Sail, Schooner View entry for LAURA in MNL 1915, page 851 MHACLIPMore...
LAURENT AU COIN126574Sail, Schooner View entry for LAURENT AU COIN in MNL 1915, page 852 MHACLIPMore...
LILLIE103315Sail, Schooner View entry for LILLIE in MNL 1915, page 858 MHACLIPMore...
LITTLE HEIR103318Sail, Schooner View entry for LITTLE HEIR in MNL 1915, page 860 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZIE A69964Sail, Schooner View entry for LIZZIE A in MNL 1915, page 862 MHACLIPMore...
LOUISE96775Sail, Schooner View entry for LOUISE in MNL 1915, page 866 MHACLIPMore...
LUCY103330Sail, Schooner View entry for LUCY in MNL 1915, page 867 MHACLIPMore...
M C G BOUDREAU126576Sail, Schooner View entry for M C G BOUDREAU in MNL 1915, page 870 MHACLIPMore...
MARIE96771Sail, Schooner View entry for MARIE in MNL 1915, page 879 MHACLIPMore...
MARIE C111798Sail, Sloop View entry for MARIE C in MNL 1915, page 880 MHACLIPMore...
MARIE H LE BLANC130784Sail, Schooner View entry for MARIE H LE BLANC in MNL 1915, page 880 MHACLIPMore...
MARIE JOSEPH96777Sail, Schooner View entry for MARIE JOSEPH in MNL 1915, page 880 MHACLIPMore...
MARY103314Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY in MNL 1915, page 884 MHACLIPMore...
MARY LAMBERT96769Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY LAMBERT in MNL 1915, page 888 MHACLIPMore...
MERMAID111797Sail, Schooner View entry for MERMAID in MNL 1915, page 896 MHACLIPMore...
MINNIE72067Sail, Schooner View entry for MINNIE in MNL 1915, page 899 MHACLIPMore...
MIZPAH103326Sail, Schooner View entry for MIZPAH in MNL 1915, page 902 MHACLIPMore...
MORNING STAR83100Sail, Schooner View entry for MORNING STAR in MNL 1915, page 905 MHACLIPMore...
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