Ships shown as registered at Inverness 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  ? .

Records for Inverness may also be found under Fort William.

Click a port name to see the records for that port

To show records for all the ports together, please click here

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE10419Sail, Smack View entry for ALEXANDER MACKENZIE in MNL 1900, page 397 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & MARY62105Sail, Schooner View entry for ANN & MARY in MNL 1900, page 405 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE77536Sail, Schooner View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 406 MHACLIPMore...
ARGO102012Sail, Yawl View entry for ARGO in MNL 1900, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
BARBARA77537Sail View entry for BARBARA in MNL 1900, page 418 MHACLIPMore...
BELLA62700Sail, Schooner View entry for BELLA in MNL 1900, page 420 MHACLIPMore...
BULLDOG976021892, Steam View entry for BULLDOG in MNL 1900, page 51 MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE18963Sail, Sloop View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1900, page 438 MHACLIPMore...
CAVALIER62109Sail, Schooner View entry for CAVALIER in MNL 1900, page 439 MHACLIPMore...
CONSTANCE58269Sail, Schooner View entry for CONSTANCE in MNL 1900, page 451 MHACLIPMore...
DISPATCH95741Sail, Schooner View entry for DISPATCH in MNL 1900, page 464 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN26838Sail, Smack View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1900, page 464 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH70527Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1900, page 477 MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE29230Sail, Schooner View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1900, page 486 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA EMILY77539Sail, Schooner View entry for FLORA EMILY in MNL 1900, page 500 MHACLIPMore...
GLASGOW1352Sail, Barkantine View entry for GLASGOW in MNL 1900, page 516 MHACLIPMore...
GLENFIELD93441Sail, Smack View entry for GLENFIELD in MNL 1900, page 517 MHACLIPMore...
HILDA77529Sail, Schooner View entry for HILDA in MNL 1900, page 533 MHACLIPMore...
ISA REID62129Sail, Schooner View entry for ISA REID in MNL 1900, page 543 MHACLIPMore...
ISABELLA63067Sail, Schooner View entry for ISABELLA in MNL 1900, page 544 MHACLIPMore...
JESSIES93444Sail, Smack View entry for JESSIES in MNL 1900, page 553 MHACLIPMore...
LEADER93449Sail, Ketch View entry for LEADER in MNL 1900, page 573 MHACLIPMore...
LOUISA7712Sail, Schooner View entry for LOUISA in MNL 1900, page 585 MHACLIPMore...
MARY NISH62268Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY NISH in MNL 1900, page 607 MHACLIPMore...
MAY FLOWER56447Sail, Schooner View entry for MAY FLOWER in MNL 1900, page 610 MHACLIPMore...
MOCHRUM LASS49980Sail, Schooner View entry for MOCHRUM LASS in MNL 1900, page 619 MHACLIPMore...
NAIRNSHIRE62127Sail, Schooner View entry for NAIRNSHIRE in MNL 1900, page 625 MHACLIPMore...
NESS QUEEN845701893, Steam View entry for NESS QUEEN in MNL 1900, page 249 MHACLIPMore...
NIL DESPERANDUM77538Sail, Smack View entry for NIL DESPERANDUM in MNL 1900, page 629 MHACLIPMore...
NIMROD102014Sail View entry for NIMROD in MNL 1900, page 630 MHACLIPMore...
NOBLE62424Sail, Schooner View entry for NOBLE in MNL 1900, page 631 MHACLIPMore...
REGENT28981Sail, Schooner View entry for REGENT in MNL 1900, page 664 MHACLIPMore...
ROSEHAUGH685681883, Steam View entry for ROSEHAUGH in MNL 1900, page 304 MHACLIPMore...
SAGA1024711895, Steam View entry for SAGA in MNL 1900, page 309 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT DUTHUS62125Sail, Schooner View entry for SAINT DUTHUS in MNL 1900, page 678 MHACLIPMore...
SEA BELLE53144Sail, Schooner View entry for SEA BELLE in MNL 1900, page 687 MHACLIPMore...
SNOWFLAKE52511Sail, Schooner View entry for SNOWFLAKE in MNL 1900, page 697 MHACLIPMore...
SPEEDWELL290391870, Steam View entry for SPEEDWELL in MNL 1900, page 329 MHACLIPMore...
SUCCESS1020131899, Steam View entry for SUCCESS in MNL 1900, page 335 MHACLIPMore...
SURPRISE9524Sail, Cutter View entry for SURPRISE in MNL 1900, page 706 MHACLIPMore...
SVERRE93446Sail, Barque View entry for SVERRE in MNL 1900, page 708 MHACLIPMore...
VANGUARD58644Sail, Dandy View entry for VANGUARD in MNL 1900, page 727 MHACLIPMore...
WARLOCK638421893, Steam View entry for WARLOCK in MNL 1900, page 373 MHACLIPMore...
WINIFRED48565Sail, Schooner View entry for WINIFRED in MNL 1900, page 748 MHACLIPMore...
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