Ships shown as registered at Goole 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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ABEONA54501Sail, Schooner View entry for ABEONA in MNL 1900, page 389 MHACLIPMore...
AFFIANCE11Sail, Schooner View entry for AFFIANCE in MNL 1900, page 392 MHACLIPMore...
AGUILA54513Sail, Schooner View entry for AGUILA in MNL 1900, page 393 MHACLIPMore...
AIRE58748Sail, Schooner View entry for AIRE in MNL 1900, page 394 MHACLIPMore...
AIRE913081887, Steam View entry for AIRE in MNL 1900, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
ALARM44040Sail, Ketch View entry for ALARM in MNL 1900, page 394 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE KILNER98390Sail, Ketch View entry for ALICE KILNER in MNL 1900, page 399 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE LOUISA58728Sail, Schooner View entry for ALICE LOUISA in MNL 1900, page 399 MHACLIPMore...
ALLIANCE13371Sail, Ketch View entry for ALLIANCE in MNL 1900, page 400 MHACLIPMore...
ALTONA678211877, Steam View entry for ALTONA in MNL 1900, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
AMELIA & ANN3460Sail, Ketch View entry for AMELIA & ANN in MNL 1900, page 402 MHACLIPMore...
AMITY326Sail, Sloop View entry for AMITY in MNL 1900, page 402 MHACLIPMore...
ANN17121Sail, Ketch View entry for ANN in MNL 1900, page 404 MHACLIPMore...
ANN27703Sail, Schooner View entry for ANN in MNL 1900, page 404 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE98400Sail, Ketch View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 406 MHACLIPMore...
AQUILA47123Sail, Schooner View entry for AQUILA in MNL 1900, page 410 MHACLIPMore...
BEAUFORT1042171897, Steam View entry for BEAUFORT in MNL 1900, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
BEE54504Sail, Ketch View entry for BEE in MNL 1900, page 419 MHACLIPMore...
BERLIN983831891, Steam View entry for BERLIN in MNL 1900, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BERTHA104212Sail, Ketch View entry for BERTHA in MNL 1900, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
BLACK CAT58733Sail, Schooner View entry for BLACK CAT in MNL 1900, page 424 MHACLIPMore...
BRACKENHOLM58731Sail, Schooner View entry for BRACKENHOLM in MNL 1900, page 427 MHACLIPMore...
BRANTINGHAM1042181897, Steam View entry for BRANTINGHAM in MNL 1900, page 46 MHACLIPMore...
BRAVO91325Sail, Ketch View entry for BRAVO in MNL 1900, page 428 MHACLIPMore...
BRILLIANT17418Sail, Ketch View entry for BRILLIANT in MNL 1900, page 428 MHACLIPMore...
BURMA983821891, Steam View entry for BURMA in MNL 1900, page 51 MHACLIPMore...
BUTTERCUP67847Sail, Ketch View entry for BUTTERCUP in MNL 1900, page 432 MHACLIPMore...
CALDER913091887, Steam View entry for CALDER in MNL 1900, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE47989Sail, Ketch View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1900, page 442 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE58548Sail, Barque View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1900, page 442 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE KILNER67837Sail, Ketch View entry for CHARLOTTE KILNER in MNL 1900, page 443 MHACLIPMore...
CHINA678241877, Steam View entry for CHINA in MNL 1900, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA104215Sail, Ketch View entry for CLARA in MNL 1900, page 446 MHACLIPMore...
CLARITA56414Sail, Schooner View entry for CLARITA in MNL 1900, page 447 MHACLIPMore...
COREA983981895, Steam View entry for COREA in MNL 1900, page 81 MHACLIPMore...
CORNHILL979581899, Steam View entry for CORNHILL in MNL 1900, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
COURIER54908Sail, Schooner View entry for COURIER in MNL 1900, page 453 MHACLIPMore...
CUXHAVEN678361882, Steam View entry for CUXHAVEN in MNL 1900, page 87 MHACLIPMore...
DAISY67840Sail, Ketch View entry for DAISY in MNL 1900, page 457 MHACLIPMore...
DEMARIS27586Sail, Schooner View entry for DEMARIS in MNL 1900, page 461 MHACLIPMore...
DERWENT913161888, Steam View entry for DERWENT in MNL 1900, page 94 MHACLIPMore...
DINNINGTON673801874, Steam View entry for DINNINGTON in MNL 1900, page 96 MHACLIPMore...
DON983891892, Steam View entry for DON in MNL 1900, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
DORA983971894, Steam View entry for DORA in MNL 1900, page 98 MHACLIPMore...
DORA104216Sail, Schooner View entry for DORA in MNL 1900, page 465 MHACLIPMore...
DRESDEN678451884, Steam View entry for DRESDEN in MNL 1900, page 100 MHACLIPMore...
EAGLE29204Sail, Ketch View entry for EAGLE in MNL 1900, page 469 MHACLIPMore...
EASTHAM979831899, Steam View entry for EASTHAM in MNL 1900, page 107 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA & ALICE54503Sail, Ketch View entry for ELIZA & ALICE in MNL 1900, page 477 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH18251Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1900, page 477 MHACLIPMore...
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