Ships shown as registered at Vancouver, BC 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.

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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A M 1107457Sail View entry for A M 1 in MNL 1900, page 388 MHACLIPMore...
ABERDEEN1006751893, Steam View entry for ABERDEEN in MNL 1900, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES948951891, Steam View entry for AGNES in MNL 1900, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE1077231900, Steam View entry for ALICE in MNL 1900, page 754 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA459561899, Steam View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1900, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ANTIC1071531898, Steam View entry for ANTIC in MNL 1900, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
APRIL100671Sail View entry for APRIL in MNL 1900, page 410 MHACLIPMore...
AUTOLYCUS1031561895, Steam View entry for AUTOLYCUS in MNL 1900, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
B K C 1107719Sail View entry for B K C 1 in MNL 1900, page 416 MHACLIPMore...
B K C 2107720Sail View entry for B K C 2 in MNL 1900, page 416 MHACLIPMore...
BAILEY1077151899, Steam View entry for BAILEY in MNL 1900, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
BEAVER1006781893, Steam View entry for BEAVER in MNL 1900, page 35 MHACLIPMore...
BONANZA726661899, Steam View entry for BONANZA in MNL 1900, page 44 MHACLIPMore...
BURPEE1071571898, Steam View entry for BURPEE in MNL 1900, page 51 MHACLIPMore...
BURT971551897, Steam View entry for BURT in MNL 1900, page 52 MHACLIPMore...
BUTE1001951891, Steam View entry for BUTE in MNL 1900, page 52 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA1071451898, Steam View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1900, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
CAPILANO1002031892, Steam View entry for CAPILANO in MNL 1900, page 58 MHACLIPMore...
CHEHALES1031651897, Steam View entry for CHEHALES in MNL 1900, page 66 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF COLUMBIA1031571896, Steam View entry for CITY OF COLUMBIA in MNL 1900, page 70 MHACLIPMore...
CLANSMAN1077111899, Steam View entry for CLANSMAN in MNL 1900, page 73 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA W YOUNG907981895, Steam View entry for CLARA W YOUNG in MNL 1900, page 73 MHACLIPMore...
COMOX1002021891, Steam View entry for COMOX in MNL 1900, page 79 MHACLIPMore...
COQUITLAM1002051892, Steam View entry for COQUITLAM in MNL 1900, page 81 MHACLIPMore...
CRUSADER103162Sail, Schooner View entry for CRUSADER in MNL 1900, page 455 MHACLIPMore...
CUTCH881781891, Steam View entry for CUTCH in MNL 1900, page 87 MHACLIPMore...
DEFIANCE1077171899, Steam View entry for DEFIANCE in MNL 1900, page 93 MHACLIPMore...
DENVER1033101898, Steam View entry for DENVER in MNL 1900, page 94 MHACLIPMore...
DONNEY1031541895, Steam View entry for DONNEY in MNL 1900, page 98 MHACLIPMore...
DREADNAUGHT949071892, Steam View entry for DREADNAUGHT in MNL 1900, page 100 MHACLIPMore...
DRONE1002091892, Steam View entry for DRONE in MNL 1900, page 101 MHACLIPMore...
DUCHESNAY1071511898, Steam View entry for DUCHESNAY in MNL 1900, page 101 MHACLIPMore...
DUFF107443Sail, Barge View entry for DUFF in MNL 1900, page 467 MHACLIPMore...
E C E 1107455Sail View entry for E C E 1 in MNL 1900, page 468 MHACLIPMore...
ELECTRON107150Sail View entry for ELECTRON in MNL 1900, page 475 MHACLIPMore...
EMBLEM107718Sail View entry for EMBLEM in MNL 1900, page 482 MHACLIPMore...
EMMELINE1031631896, Steam View entry for EMMELINE in MNL 1900, page 115 MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS1006791894, Steam View entry for EMPRESS in MNL 1900, page 116 MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS1074481898, Steam View entry for EMPRESS in MNL 1900, page 116 MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE1031601896, Steam View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1900, page 118 MHACLIPMore...
ERMINE1031531895, Steam View entry for ERMINE in MNL 1900, page 119 MHACLIPMore...
ETTA WHITE641541892, Steam View entry for ETTA WHITE in MNL 1900, page 121 MHACLIPMore...
F R M & D CO NO 11031511894, Steam View entry for F R M & D CO NO 1 in MNL 1900, page 125 MHACLIPMore...
FINGAL1031521895, Steam View entry for FINGAL in MNL 1900, page 129 MHACLIPMore...
FLYER1077121899, Steam View entry for FLYER in MNL 1900, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
FRASER1031591896, Steam View entry for FRASER in MNL 1900, page 135 MHACLIPMore...
GLADYS1077221899, Steam View entry for GLADYS in MNL 1900, page 144 MHACLIPMore...
GLENORA1071491898, Steam View entry for GLENORA in MNL 1900, page 147 MHACLIPMore...
HAMLIN1071441898, Steam View entry for HAMLIN in MNL 1900, page 156 MHACLIPMore...
HUMMER1074591899, Steam View entry for HUMMER in MNL 1900, page 170 MHACLIPMore...
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