Ships shown as registered at Fowey 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  ? .

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ADA PEARD73258Sail, Brigantine View entry for ADA PEARD in MNL 1915, page 657 MHACLIPMore...
ADELAIDE58295Sail, Brigantine View entry for ADELAIDE in MNL 1915, page 657 MHACLIPMore...
AIRY-MOUSE95731Sail, Cutter View entry for AIRY-MOUSE in MNL 1915, page 660 MHACLIPMore...
ALARM1319831912, Motor View entry for ALARM in MNL 1915, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
AMY62443Sail, Schooner View entry for AMY in MNL 1915, page 668 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE CAROLINE85826Sail, Ketch View entry for BEATRICE CAROLINE in MNL 1915, page 685 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE STEPHENS77362Sail, Schooner View entry for BESSIE STEPHENS in MNL 1915, page 689 MHACLIPMore...
COUNTESS OF JERSEY784371881, Steam View entry for COUNTESS OF JERSEY in MNL 1915, page 135 MHACLIPMore...
DEERHOUND870301898, Steam View entry for DEERHOUND in MNL 1915, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
DEVONIA47883Sail, Brigantine View entry for DEVONIA in MNL 1915, page 731 MHACLIPMore...
DOROTHY63966Sail, Ketch View entry for DOROTHY in MNL 1915, page 735 MHACLIPMore...
E S HOCKEN77364Sail, Brigantine View entry for E S HOCKEN in MNL 1915, page 741 MHACLIPMore...
EBOR109215Sail, Yawl View entry for EBOR in MNL 1915, page 742 MHACLIPMore...
ELLIN LLOYD77412Sail, Barkantine View entry for ELLIN LLOYD in MNL 1915, page 752 MHACLIPMore...
FANCY1160681913, Motor View entry for FANCY in MNL 1915, page 204 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE51146Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1915, page 773 MHACLIPMore...
FOAM85830Sail, Yawl View entry for FOAM in MNL 1915, page 775 MHACLIPMore...
FOY1160621902, Steam View entry for FOY in MNL 1915, page 216 MHACLIPMore...
FOYE1160641910, Motor View entry for FOYE in MNL 1915, page 217 MHACLIPMore...
G H BEVAN60637Sail, Schooner View entry for G H BEVAN in MNL 1915, page 782 MHACLIPMore...
GALLANT858221903, Steam View entry for GALLANT in MNL 1915, page 223 MHACLIPMore...
GIPSY95737Sail, Cutter View entry for GIPSY in MNL 1915, page 788 MHACLIPMore...
GLADORIS95740Sail, Yawl View entry for GLADORIS in MNL 1915, page 789 MHACLIPMore...
HARRIET WILLIAMS53355Sail, Schooner View entry for HARRIET WILLIAMS in MNL 1915, page 802 MHACLIPMore...
HELENA ANNA85257Sail, Schooner View entry for HELENA ANNA in MNL 1915, page 806 MHACLIPMore...
HONORAH116070Sail, Ketch View entry for HONORAH in MNL 1915, page 811 MHACLIPMore...
I'LL AWAY47971Sail, Schooner View entry for I'LL AWAY in MNL 1915, page 816 MHACLIPMore...
IMOGENE86666Sail, Schooner View entry for IMOGENE in MNL 1915, page 816 MHACLIPMore...
INDUSTRY95723Sail, Ketch View entry for INDUSTRY in MNL 1915, page 817 MHACLIPMore...
JANE SLADE63961Sail, Schooner View entry for JANE SLADE in MNL 1915, page 827 MHACLIPMore...
JESSIE76576Sail, Schooner View entry for JESSIE in MNL 1915, page 830 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN FARLEY47973Sail, Schooner View entry for JOHN FARLEY in MNL 1915, page 832 MHACLIPMore...
KATIE CLUETT73261Sail, Schooner View entry for KATIE CLUETT in MNL 1915, page 839 MHACLIPMore...
LITTLE GEM95729Sail, Schooner View entry for LITTLE GEM in MNL 1915, page 860 MHACLIPMore...
LITTLE MYSTERY85828Sail, Schooner View entry for LITTLE MYSTERY in MNL 1915, page 861 MHACLIPMore...
LITTLE PET81035Sail, Schooner View entry for LITTLE PET in MNL 1915, page 861 MHACLIPMore...
LITTLE SECRET85829Sail, Schooner View entry for LITTLE SECRET in MNL 1915, page 861 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZIE47970Sail, Ketch View entry for LIZZIE in MNL 1915, page 861 MHACLIPMore...
LIZZIE TRENBERTH58288Sail, Schooner View entry for LIZZIE TRENBERTH in MNL 1915, page 863 MHACLIPMore...
LYDIA CARDELL69842Sail, Schooner View entry for LYDIA CARDELL in MNL 1915, page 868 MHACLIPMore...
MARIA49985Sail, Barkantine View entry for MARIA in MNL 1915, page 878 MHACLIPMore...
MARJORIE131982Sail, Cutter View entry for MARJORIE in MNL 1915, page 882 MHACLIPMore...
MARTHA EDMONDS60768Sail, Brig View entry for MARTHA EDMONDS in MNL 1915, page 883 MHACLIPMore...
MARY ANN79954Sail, Brigantine View entry for MARY ANN in MNL 1915, page 885 MHACLIPMore...
NEREID95734Sail, Yawl View entry for NEREID in MNL 1915, page 912 MHACLIPMore...
OCEAN RANGER73259Sail, Brigantine View entry for OCEAN RANGER in MNL 1915, page 922 MHACLIPMore...
OCEAN SWELL73256Sail, Brigantine View entry for OCEAN SWELL in MNL 1915, page 922 MHACLIPMore...
OCEAN WAVE63964Sail, Schooner View entry for OCEAN WAVE in MNL 1915, page 922 MHACLIPMore...
OTTER957301911, Motor View entry for OTTER in MNL 1915, page 443 MHACLIPMore...
PAR957391902, Steam View entry for PAR in MNL 1915, page 448 MHACLIPMore...
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