Ships shown as registered at Harwich 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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ADA GANE84033Sail, Ketch View entry for ADA GANE in MNL 1890, page 273 MHACLIPMore...
ADELAIDE811731880, Steam View entry for ADELAIDE in MNL 1890, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS48998Sail, Smack View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1890, page 278 MHACLIPMore...
ALCYONE84038Sail, Ketch View entry for ALCYONE in MNL 1890, page 279 MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED21833Sail, Sloop View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1890, page 281 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE81164Sail, Spritsail View entry for ALICE in MNL 1890, page 282 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE WATTS67264Sail, Ketch View entry for ALICE WATTS in MNL 1890, page 283 MHACLIPMore...
ALINE21359Sail, Spritsail View entry for ALINE in MNL 1890, page 283 MHACLIPMore...
AMY67258Sail, Ketch View entry for AMY in MNL 1890, page 287 MHACLIPMore...
ANEMONE54522Sail, Smack View entry for ANEMONE in MNL 1890, page 288 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE56435Sail, Ketch View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1890, page 295 MHACLIPMore...
AVALON527851867, Steam View entry for AVALON in MNL 1890, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
BRIGHTLINGSEA56434Sail, Ketch View entry for BRIGHTLINGSEA in MNL 1890, page 315 MHACLIPMore...
BUTTERFLY84032Sail, Spritsail View entry for BUTTERFLY in MNL 1890, page 320 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIDGE913281887, Steam View entry for CAMBRIDGE in MNL 1890, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
CLACTON81166Sail, Barkantine View entry for CLACTON in MNL 1890, page 335 MHACLIPMore...
CLAUD HAMILTON744311875, Steam View entry for CLAUD HAMILTON in MNL 1890, page 53 MHACLIPMore...
COGNAC PACKET22480Sail, Snow View entry for COGNAC PACKET in MNL 1890, page 337 MHACLIPMore...
COLCHESTER913321889, Steam View entry for COLCHESTER in MNL 1890, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
CORAL17808Sail, Cutter View entry for CORAL in MNL 1890, page 341 MHACLIPMore...
CYGNET84028Sail, Spritsail View entry for CYGNET in MNL 1890, page 346 MHACLIPMore...
CYNTHIA21361Sail, Barge View entry for CYNTHIA in MNL 1890, page 346 MHACLIPMore...
DOROTHY91335Sail, Spritsail View entry for DOROTHY in MNL 1890, page 355 MHACLIPMore...
DRACHENFELLS7908Sail, Spritsail View entry for DRACHENFELLS in MNL 1890, page 356 MHACLIPMore...
EASTWOOD7905Sail, Spritsail View entry for EASTWOOD in MNL 1890, page 360 MHACLIPMore...
ECHO11822Sail, Spritsail View entry for ECHO in MNL 1890, page 361 MHACLIPMore...
ECONOMY2871Sail, Brig View entry for ECONOMY in MNL 1890, page 361 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD & MARIA8285Sail, Spritsail View entry for EDWARD & MARIA in MNL 1890, page 363 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA18092Sail, Spritsail View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1890, page 366 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA H84029Sail, Ketch View entry for ELIZA H in MNL 1890, page 367 MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS74435Sail, Ketch View entry for EMPRESS in MNL 1890, page 377 MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE67260Sail, Ketch View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1890, page 379 MHACLIPMore...
ERA56422Sail, Ketch View entry for ERA in MNL 1890, page 380 MHACLIPMore...
EUREKA81168Sail, Spritsail View entry for EUREKA in MNL 1890, page 383 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELSIOR21354Sail, Spritsail View entry for EXCELSIOR in MNL 1890, page 385 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELSIOR84040Sail, Spritsail View entry for EXCELSIOR in MNL 1890, page 385 MHACLIPMore...
FARMER'S BOY78976Sail, Spritsail View entry for FARMER'S BOY in MNL 1890, page 390 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE74439Sail, Spritsail View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1890, page 394 MHACLIPMore...
FLOWER OF ESSEX18094Sail, Dandy View entry for FLOWER OF ESSEX in MNL 1890, page 396 MHACLIPMore...
FRANCES & JANE78979Sail, Schooner View entry for FRANCES & JANE in MNL 1890, page 399 MHACLIPMore...
FRANCIS78971Sail, Spritsail View entry for FRANCIS in MNL 1890, page 399 MHACLIPMore...
GAZELLE20826Sail, Spritsail View entry for GAZELLE in MNL 1890, page 405 MHACLIPMore...
GENESTA91327Sail, Ketch View entry for GENESTA in MNL 1890, page 406 MHACLIPMore...
GLENROSA84037Sail, Ketch View entry for GLENROSA in MNL 1890, page 413 MHACLIPMore...
GLORIANA67246Sail, Ketch View entry for GLORIANA in MNL 1890, page 413 MHACLIPMore...
HARWICH500531884, Steam View entry for HARWICH in MNL 1890, page 114 MHACLIPMore...
HARWICH56427Sail, Ketch View entry for HARWICH in MNL 1890, page 424 MHACLIPMore...
HARWICH744371877, Steam View entry for HARWICH in MNL 1890, page 114 MHACLIPMore...
HAWTHORN56423Sail, Cutter View entry for HAWTHORN in MNL 1890, page 425 MHACLIPMore...
HECTOR84039Sail, Spritsail View entry for HECTOR in MNL 1890, page 426 MHACLIPMore...
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