Ships shown as registered at Aberystwyth 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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ACORN49661Sail, Schooner View entry for ACORN in MNL 1880, page 146 MHACLIPMore...
ADA & ALICE47203Sail, Schooner View entry for ADA & ALICE in MNL 1880, page 148 MHACLIPMore...
ADELA S HILLS67636Sail, Barque View entry for ADELA S HILLS in MNL 1880, page 148 MHACLIPMore...
ADRIENNE73933Sail, Brig View entry for ADRIENNE in MNL 1880, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
ADROIT8857Sail, Schooner View entry for ADROIT in MNL 1880, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE791451879, Steam View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1880, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
AERON BELLE15769Sail, Schooner View entry for AERON BELLE in MNL 1880, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
AERON LASS9830Sail, Schooner View entry for AERON LASS in MNL 1880, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
AERON QUEEN13114Sail, Schooner View entry for AERON QUEEN in MNL 1880, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
AERON VALE28297Sail, Brig View entry for AERON VALE in MNL 1880, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
AFFINES9354Sail, Schooner View entry for AFFINES in MNL 1880, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
AGENORIA67645Sail, Brigantine View entry for AGENORIA in MNL 1880, page 151 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES FRASER29033Sail, Schooner View entry for AGNES FRASER in MNL 1880, page 152 MHACLIPMore...
ALA CHARLES28299Sail, Schooner View entry for ALA CHARLES in MNL 1880, page 153 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT44731Sail, Schooner View entry for ALERT in MNL 1880, page 155 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE13128Sail, Schooner View entry for ALICE in MNL 1880, page 158 MHACLIPMore...
ALICIA44727Sail, Schooner View entry for ALICIA in MNL 1880, page 159 MHACLIPMore...
ALL RIGHT20668Sail, Smack View entry for ALL RIGHT in MNL 1880, page 160 MHACLIPMore...
ANN17006Sail, Schooner View entry for ANN in MNL 1880, page 165 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & BETSEY28761Sail, Schooner View entry for ANN & BETSEY in MNL 1880, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & ELIZABETH15770Sail, Schooner View entry for ANN & ELIZABETH in MNL 1880, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & MARY42578Sail, Brigantine View entry for ANN & MARY in MNL 1880, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
ANN DAVIES47063Sail, Smack View entry for ANN DAVIES in MNL 1880, page 167 MHACLIPMore...
ANN JONES67632Sail, Schooner View entry for ANN JONES in MNL 1880, page 167 MHACLIPMore...
ANN WARREN18796Sail, Schooner View entry for ANN WARREN in MNL 1880, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA MARIA13266Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNA MARIA in MNL 1880, page 169 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE & MARY14228Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNE & MARY in MNL 1880, page 170 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE DAVIES27605Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNE DAVIES in MNL 1880, page 170 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE JANE42590Sail, Brigantine View entry for ANNE JANE in MNL 1880, page 170 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE MAUDE49652Sail, Brig View entry for ANNIE MAUDE in MNL 1880, page 172 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE56402Sail, Smack View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1880, page 173 MHACLIPMore...
ARGO1878Sail, Schooner View entry for ARGO in MNL 1880, page 175 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE21747Sail, Schooner View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1880, page 184 MHACLIPMore...
BEE9869Sail, Sloop View entry for BEE in MNL 1880, page 185 MHACLIPMore...
BERLIN35873Sail, Barque View entry for BERLIN in MNL 1880, page 188 MHACLIPMore...
BERTIE44229Sail, Barque View entry for BERTIE in MNL 1880, page 188 MHACLIPMore...
BERYL9839Sail, Smack View entry for BERYL in MNL 1880, page 189 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE JACKET28764Sail, Schooner View entry for BLUE JACKET in MNL 1880, page 193 MHACLIPMore...
BURNCOOSE25418Sail, Schooner View entry for BURNCOOSE in MNL 1880, page 201 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIA23526Sail, Barque View entry for CAMBRIA in MNL 1880, page 204 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIAN67623Sail, Schooner View entry for CAMBRIAN in MNL 1880, page 204 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIAN BELLE11194Sail, Brig View entry for CAMBRIAN BELLE in MNL 1880, page 204 MHACLIPMore...
CANDACE9835Sail, Schooner View entry for CANDACE in MNL 1880, page 205 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE SPOONER67640Sail, Barque View entry for CAROLINE SPOONER in MNL 1880, page 207 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE14592Sail, Schooner View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1880, page 209 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE56405Sail, Schooner View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1880, page 209 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE & MARY27303Sail, Schooner View entry for CATHERINE & MARY in MNL 1880, page 210 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE ANNE44734Sail, Schooner View entry for CATHERINE ANNE in MNL 1880, page 209 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE MORGAN44739Sail, Schooner View entry for CATHERINE MORGAN in MNL 1880, page 210 MHACLIPMore...
CECIL BRINDLEY56416Sail, Schooner View entry for CECIL BRINDLEY in MNL 1880, page 210 MHACLIPMore...
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