Ships shown as registered at Greenock in the Mercantile Navy List for 1910

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
ACOLITE874221908, Steam View entry for ACOLITE in MNL 1910, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE818271881, Steam View entry for ADVANCE in MNL 1910, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AEROLITE773551902, Steam View entry for AEROLITE in MNL 1910, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AILSA127541Sail, Cutter View entry for AILSA in MNL 1910, page 569 MHACLIPMore...
ALCA931911887, Steam View entry for ALCA in MNL 1910, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALINE127550Sail, Cutter View entry for ALINE in MNL 1910, page 576 MHACLIPMore...
ALMORA102374Sail, Barque View entry for ALMORA in MNL 1910, page 577 MHACLIPMore...
ANNASONA81824Sail, Cutter View entry for ANNASONA in MNL 1910, page 581 MHACLIPMore...
ARABIA1055871898, Steam View entry for ARABIA in MNL 1910, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGOIL1275471909, Steam View entry for ARDGOIL in MNL 1910, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGOWAN1173991906, Steam View entry for ARDGOWAN in MNL 1910, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGRYFE1275511909, Steam View entry for ARDGRYFE in MNL 1910, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ARETHUSA98314Sail, Barque View entry for ARETHUSA in MNL 1910, page 586 MHACLIPMore...
ARRANDALE67932Sail, Smack View entry for ARRANDALE in MNL 1910, page 588 MHACLIPMore...
ASSAYE1092521899, Steam View entry for ASSAYE in MNL 1910, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
ATTILA70448Sail, Schooner View entry for ATTILA in MNL 1910, page 590 MHACLIPMore...
AVON63431Sail, Cutter View entry for AVON in MNL 1910, page 592 MHACLIPMore...
AVON912741904, Steam View entry for AVON in MNL 1910, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BANNOCKBURN1275401908, Steam View entry for BANNOCKBURN in MNL 1910, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
BEAMER932591893, Steam View entry for BEAMER in MNL 1910, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE1235241906, Steam View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1910, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BEDOUIN44075Sail, Schooner View entry for BEDOUIN in MNL 1910, page 596 MHACLIPMore...
BEE72386Sail, Smack View entry for BEE in MNL 1910, page 596 MHACLIPMore...
BLYTHSWOOD72388Sail, Ship View entry for BLYTHSWOOD in MNL 1910, page 603 MHACLIPMore...
BRANDANE1235361907, Steam View entry for BRANDANE in MNL 1910, page 65 MHACLIPMore...
BRIGHTLIGHT1140511901, Steam View entry for BRIGHTLIGHT in MNL 1910, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA1023901894, Steam View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1910, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
CALLUNA98304Sail, Barque View entry for CALLUNA in MNL 1910, page 612 MHACLIPMore...
CANDIA1055741896, Steam View entry for CANDIA in MNL 1910, page 81 MHACLIPMore...
CAPE ANTIBES1173801903, Steam View entry for CAPE ANTIBES in MNL 1910, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
CAPE BRETON1173891904, Steam View entry for CAPE BRETON in MNL 1910, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
CAPE CORSO1173961905, Steam View entry for CAPE CORSO in MNL 1910, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
CAPELLA118133Sail, Sloop View entry for CAPELLA in MNL 1910, page 614 MHACLIPMore...
CATHCARTPARK1055831897, Steam View entry for CATHCARTPARK in MNL 1910, page 87 MHACLIPMore...
CELTICBURN98320Sail, Barque View entry for CELTICBURN in MNL 1910, page 619 MHACLIPMore...
CHRYSOLITE1140671902, Steam View entry for CHRYSOLITE in MNL 1910, page 96 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA1092411898, Steam View entry for CLARA in MNL 1910, page 103 MHACLIPMore...
COLONSAY761791878, Steam View entry for COLONSAY in MNL 1910, page 109 MHACLIPMore...
CORUISK127531Sail, Cutter View entry for CORUISK in MNL 1910, page 632 MHACLIPMore...
COWAL LASS127536Sail, Cutter View entry for COWAL LASS in MNL 1910, page 633 MHACLIPMore...
CYRA127545Sail, Cutter View entry for CYRA in MNL 1910, page 636 MHACLIPMore...
DAGONET897171887, Steam View entry for DAGONET in MNL 1910, page 126 MHACLIPMore...
DAUNTLESS768041890, Steam View entry for DAUNTLESS in MNL 1910, page 129 MHACLIPMore...
DAYLIGHT1092571900, Steam View entry for DAYLIGHT in MNL 1910, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
DECHMONT98660Sail, Ship View entry for DECHMONT in MNL 1910, page 640 MHACLIPMore...
DEERPARK1140551901, Steam View entry for DEERPARK in MNL 1910, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
DEFIANCE874131894, Steam View entry for DEFIANCE in MNL 1910, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
DELHI1173981905, Steam View entry for DELHI in MNL 1910, page 132 MHACLIPMore...
DEVANHA1174001906, Steam View entry for DEVANHA in MNL 1910, page 134 MHACLIPMore...
DONCELLA109244Sail, Cutter View entry for DONCELLA in MNL 1910, page 646 MHACLIPMore...
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