Ships shown as registered at Aberystwyth in the Mercantile Navy List for 1870

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
ABERYSTWITH28993Steam View entry for ABERYSTWITH in MNL 1870, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ACORN49661Sail View entry for ACORN in MNL 1870, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVE14105Sail View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1870, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ADELAIDE11192Sail View entry for ADELAIDE in MNL 1870, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
ADORAM15767Sail View entry for ADORAM in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
ADROIT8857Sail View entry for ADROIT in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AERON BELLE15769Sail View entry for AERON BELLE in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AERON LASS9830Sail View entry for AERON LASS in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AERON MAID9863Sail View entry for AERON MAID in MNL 1870, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
AERON QUEEN13114Sail View entry for AERON QUEEN in MNL 1870, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
AERON VALE28297Sail View entry for AERON VALE in MNL 1870, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
AFFINES9354Sail View entry for AFFINES in MNL 1870, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
AGENORIA1094Sail View entry for AGENORIA in MNL 1870, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES FRASER29033Sail View entry for AGNES FRASER in MNL 1870, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ALA CHARLES28299Sail View entry for ALA CHARLES in MNL 1870, page 9 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT9804Sail View entry for ALERT in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT28549Sail View entry for ALERT in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT44731Sail View entry for ALERT in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE13128Sail View entry for ALICE in MNL 1870, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ALICIA44727Sail View entry for ALICIA in MNL 1870, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
ALL RIGHT20668Sail View entry for ALL RIGHT in MNL 1870, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
AMITY9859Sail View entry for AMITY in MNL 1870, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
ANN17006Sail View entry for ANN in MNL 1870, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & BETSEY28761Sail View entry for ANN & BETSEY in MNL 1870, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & ELIZABETH15770Sail View entry for ANN & ELIZABETH in MNL 1870, page 24 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & MARY42578Sail View entry for ANN & MARY in MNL 1870, page 24 MHACLIPMore...
ANN DAVIES47063Sail View entry for ANN DAVIES in MNL 1870, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
ANN ELIZA44729Sail View entry for ANN ELIZA in MNL 1870, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
ANN WARREN18796Sail View entry for ANN WARREN in MNL 1870, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA MARIA13266Sail View entry for ANNA MARIA in MNL 1870, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE22761Sail View entry for ANNE in MNL 1870, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE & MARY1684Sail View entry for ANNE & MARY in MNL 1870, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE & MARY14228Sail View entry for ANNE & MARY in MNL 1870, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE CATHERINE27610Sail View entry for ANNE CATHERINE in MNL 1870, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE DAVIES27605Sail View entry for ANNE DAVIES in MNL 1870, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE ELIZABETH9278Sail View entry for ANNE ELIZABETH in MNL 1870, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE JANE42590Sail View entry for ANNE JANE in MNL 1870, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE MAUDE49652Sail View entry for ANNIE MAUDE in MNL 1870, page 27 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE56402Sail View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1870, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ARETAS27868Sail View entry for ARETAS in MNL 1870, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARGO1878Sail View entry for ARGO in MNL 1870, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARICA21752Sail View entry for ARICA in MNL 1870, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
ATALANTA10279Sail View entry for ATALANTA in MNL 1870, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
ATLANTIC42585Sail View entry for ATLANTIC in MNL 1870, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
AURORA47062Sail View entry for AURORA in MNL 1870, page 35 MHACLIPMore...
BATTUS22980Sail View entry for BATTUS in MNL 1870, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE21747Sail View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1870, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BEE9847Sail View entry for BEE in MNL 1870, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
BEE9851Sail View entry for BEE in MNL 1870, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
BEE9869Sail View entry for BEE in MNL 1870, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
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