Ships shown as registered at Grangemouth in the Mercantile Navy List for 1890

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
ABERFORTH811381884, Steam View entry for ABERFORTH in MNL 1890, page 1 MHACLIPMore...
ABERGRANGE681791874, Steam View entry for ABERGRANGE in MNL 1890, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ABERTAY909041888, Steam View entry for ABERTAY in MNL 1890, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ARGO22513Sail, Sloop View entry for ARGO in MNL 1890, page 296 MHACLIPMore...
AVON455491876, Steam View entry for AVON in MNL 1890, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
BANTON PACKET22514Sail, Sloop View entry for BANTON PACKET in MNL 1890, page 304 MHACLIPMore...
BLUCHER898021888, Steam View entry for BLUCHER in MNL 1890, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIAN811401885, Steam View entry for CALEDONIAN in MNL 1890, page 40 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE768721878, Steam View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1890, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
CARRON811361884, Steam View entry for CARRON in MNL 1890, page 44 MHACLIPMore...
COMET811301882, Steam View entry for COMET in MNL 1890, page 56 MHACLIPMore...
CUPID455461865, Steam View entry for CUPID in MNL 1890, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
CYRUS811341883, Steam View entry for CYRUS in MNL 1890, page 64 MHACLIPMore...
D47020Sail, Sloop View entry for D in MNL 1890, page 347 MHACLIPMore...
DART19789Sail, Sloop View entry for DART in MNL 1890, page 348 MHACLIPMore...
DERWENT681771874, Steam View entry for DERWENT in MNL 1890, page 68 MHACLIPMore...
EDDA811291881, Steam View entry for EDDA in MNL 1890, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
EMBLA811331883, Steam View entry for EMBLA in MNL 1890, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS18241Sail, Sloop View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1890, page 386 MHACLIPMore...
FLASH18242Sail, Sloop View entry for FLASH in MNL 1890, page 392 MHACLIPMore...
FORTH811391884, Steam View entry for FORTH in MNL 1890, page 96 MHACLIPMore...
FORTH909021887, Steam View entry for FORTH in MNL 1890, page 96 MHACLIPMore...
G47242Sail, Sloop View entry for G in MNL 1890, page 402 MHACLIPMore...
GLANCE18244Sail, Sloop View entry for GLANCE in MNL 1890, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
GLEAM18243Sail, Sloop View entry for GLEAM in MNL 1890, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
HAWTHORN814581887, Steam View entry for HAWTHORN in MNL 1890, page 114 MHACLIPMore...
HUGH47017Sail, Sloop View entry for HUGH in MNL 1890, page 434 MHACLIPMore...
ITUNA896551886, Steam View entry for ITUNA in MNL 1890, page 128 MHACLIPMore...
JANUS811351883, Steam View entry for JANUS in MNL 1890, page 130 MHACLIPMore...
JUNO811281880, Steam View entry for JUNO in MNL 1890, page 134 MHACLIPMore...
JUPITER681841876, Steam View entry for JUPITER in MNL 1890, page 134 MHACLIPMore...
LEITH28680Sail View entry for LEITH in MNL 1890, page 474 MHACLIPMore...
LOFNA768671877, Steam View entry for LOFNA in MNL 1890, page 151 MHACLIPMore...
METEOR811321882, Steam View entry for METEOR in MNL 1890, page 166 MHACLIPMore...
MUSGRAVE673031876, Steam View entry for MUSGRAVE in MNL 1890, page 173 MHACLIPMore...
NO 10628871871, Steam View entry for NO 10 in MNL 1890, page 182 MHACLIPMore...
NO 13768711878, Steam View entry for NO 13 in MNL 1890, page 182 MHACLIPMore...
NO 9628881871, Steam View entry for NO 9 in MNL 1890, page 182 MHACLIPMore...
NORNA909051889, Steam View entry for NORNA in MNL 1890, page 179 MHACLIPMore...
NUMBER TWELVE768691878, Steam View entry for NUMBER TWELVE in MNL 1890, page 181 MHACLIPMore...
OPAL56931Sail, Spritsail View entry for OPAL in MNL 1890, page 543 MHACLIPMore...
PALOMARES839051889, Steam View entry for PALOMARES in MNL 1890, page 189 MHACLIPMore...
PROMPT19788Sail, Sloop View entry for PROMPT in MNL 1890, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
RAPID62883Sail, Ketch View entry for RAPID in MNL 1890, page 569 MHACLIPMore...
SHAMROCK768681888, Steam View entry for SHAMROCK in MNL 1890, page 225 MHACLIPMore...
SKULDA811311882, Steam View entry for SKULDA in MNL 1890, page 229 MHACLIPMore...
TAY681831875, Steam View entry for TAY in MNL 1890, page 240 MHACLIPMore...
THAMES909031887, Steam View entry for THAMES in MNL 1890, page 242 MHACLIPMore...
VENUS569321868, Steam View entry for VENUS in MNL 1890, page 252 MHACLIPMore...
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