Ships shown as registered at Greenock in the Mercantile Navy List for 1920

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 1920, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
AILSA127541Sail, Cutter View entry for AILSA in MNL 1920, page 671 MHACLIPMore...
AMAZON1275601910, Motor View entry for AMAZON in MNL 1920, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
ANNA BHAN137056Sail, Smack View entry for ANNA BHAN in MNL 1920, page 681 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGANTOCK1422711919, Steam View entry for ARDGANTOCK in MNL 1920, page 29 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGARTH1353311913, Steam View entry for ARDGARTH in MNL 1920, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGARVEL1370491917, Steam View entry for ARDGARVEL in MNL 1920, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGLASS1422751919, Steam View entry for ARDGLASS in MNL 1920, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGOIL1370581917, Steam View entry for ARDGOIL in MNL 1920, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGOUR1370411914, Steam View entry for ARDGOUR in MNL 1920, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARDGOWAN1422591918, Steam View entry for ARDGOWAN in MNL 1920, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
ARRANDALE67932Sail, Smack View entry for ARRANDALE in MNL 1920, page 687 MHACLIPMore...
ASHPARK1422731919, Steam View entry for ASHPARK in MNL 1920, page 35 MHACLIPMore...
ASSAYE1092521899, Steam View entry for ASSAYE in MNL 1920, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
BEAMER932591911, Steam View entry for BEAMER in MNL 1920, page 51 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE1235241906, Motor View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1920, page 51 MHACLIPMore...
BEE72386Sail, Smack View entry for BEE in MNL 1920, page 695 MHACLIPMore...
BEE1275561910, Motor View entry for BEE in MNL 1920, page 52 MHACLIPMore...
BEECHPARK1422721919, Steam View entry for BEECHPARK in MNL 1920, page 52 MHACLIPMore...
BELTANA1318531912, Steam View entry for BELTANA in MNL 1920, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
BENALLA1353221913, Steam View entry for BENALLA in MNL 1920, page 57 MHACLIPMore...
BERRIMA1353321913, Steam View entry for BERRIMA in MNL 1920, page 58 MHACLIPMore...
BILBSTER1367671919, Steam View entry for BILBSTER in MNL 1920, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
BOLBEC1422651918, Steam View entry for BOLBEC in MNL 1920, page 65 MHACLIPMore...
BORDA1353401914, Steam View entry for BORDA in MNL 1920, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
BRIGHTLIGHT1140511901, Steam View entry for BRIGHTLIGHT in MNL 1920, page 73 MHACLIPMore...
BROOMPARK1370531917, Steam View entry for BROOMPARK in MNL 1920, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA1023901894, Steam View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1920, page 85 MHACLIPMore...
CAPE BRETON1173891904, Steam View entry for CAPE BRETON in MNL 1920, page 89 MHACLIPMore...
CAPELLA1181331914, Steam View entry for CAPELLA in MNL 1920, page 90 MHACLIPMore...
CARRONPARK1353211912, Steam View entry for CARRONPARK in MNL 1920, page 94 MHACLIPMore...
CERIGO128658Sail, Ketch View entry for CERIGO in MNL 1920, page 716 MHACLIPMore...
CHALISTER1353291913, Steam View entry for CHALISTER in MNL 1920, page 100 MHACLIPMore...
CHRYSOLITE1140671902, Steam View entry for CHRYSOLITE in MNL 1920, page 108 MHACLIPMore...
COLLEEN1370421914, Motor View entry for COLLEEN in MNL 1920, page 121 MHACLIPMore...
COWAL LASS127536Sail, Cutter View entry for COWAL LASS in MNL 1920, page 728 MHACLIPMore...
CRESS1422741919, Steam View entry for CRESS in MNL 1920, page 134 MHACLIPMore...
CYRA127545Sail, Cutter View entry for CYRA in MNL 1920, page 732 MHACLIPMore...
DAGONET897171897, Steam View entry for DAGONET in MNL 1920, page 141 MHACLIPMore...
DAUNTLESS768041890, Steam View entry for DAUNTLESS in MNL 1920, page 145 MHACLIPMore...
DAYLIGHT1092571900, Steam View entry for DAYLIGHT in MNL 1920, page 146 MHACLIPMore...
DEFIANCE874131884, Steam View entry for DEFIANCE in MNL 1920, page 147 MHACLIPMore...
DENPARK1286591916, Steam View entry for DENPARK in MNL 1920, page 149 MHACLIPMore...
DEVANHA1174001906, Steam View entry for DEVANHA in MNL 1920, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
EGYPT1055811897, Steam View entry for EGYPT in MNL 1920, page 174 MHACLIPMore...
ELECTRIC LIGHT932261890, Steam View entry for ELECTRIC LIGHT in MNL 1920, page 176 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH554401904, Steam View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1920, page 177 MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN1140601901, Steam View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1920, page 178 MHACLIPMore...
ETHNE127553Sail, Cutter View entry for ETHNE in MNL 1920, page 766 MHACLIPMore...
EUREKA86907Sail, Ketch View entry for EUREKA in MNL 1920, page 767 MHACLIPMore...
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