Ships shown as registered at Kirkcaldy in the Mercantile Navy List for 1930

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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ABDEIL1247051921, Steam View entry for ABDEIL in MNL 1930, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ACORN1376181922, Steam View entry for ACORN in MNL 1930, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES GARDNER1447911920, Steam View entry for AGNES GARDNER in MNL 1930, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
ALICES1252591907, Steam View entry for ALICES in MNL 1930, page 14 MHACLIPMore...
ANSTER BELLE1318731920, Steam View entry for ANSTER BELLE in MNL 1930, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
BENE VERTAT1455491924, Steam View entry for BENE VERTAT in MNL 1930, page 54 MHACLIPMore...
BREADWINNER1269721907, Steam View entry for BREADWINNER in MNL 1930, page 68 MHACLIPMore...
CALLIOPSIS1447881928, Steam View entry for CALLIOPSIS in MNL 1930, page 84 MHACLIPMore...
CAMELLIA1252521907, Steam View entry for CAMELLIA in MNL 1930, page 86 MHACLIPMore...
CASSIOPEIA1447901924, Steam View entry for CASSIOPEIA in MNL 1930, page 95 MHACLIPMore...
COPIOUS1398881922, Steam View entry for COPIOUS in MNL 1930, page 128 MHACLIPMore...
COSMEA1349541924, Steam View entry for COSMEA in MNL 1930, page 133 MHACLIPMore...
DAISY1196721906, Steam View entry for DAISY in MNL 1930, page 142 MHACLIPMore...
ELSPETH SMITH1318661913, Motor View entry for ELSPETH SMITH in MNL 1930, page 672 MHACLIPMore...
EVENING STAR1252581907, Steam View entry for EVENING STAR in MNL 1930, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
EVENTIDE1247041922, Steam View entry for EVENTIDE in MNL 1930, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
FAITHLIE1142831920, Steam View entry for FAITHLIE in MNL 1930, page 189 MHACLIPMore...
FIFE NESS1447861925, Steam View entry for FIFE NESS in MNL 1930, page 194 MHACLIPMore...
GLENOGIL1022021894, Steam View entry for GLENOGIL in MNL 1930, page 220 MHACLIPMore...
GOLDEN SUNRAY1196131913, Steam View entry for GOLDEN SUNRAY in MNL 1930, page 223 MHACLIPMore...
HONEY BEE1196051923, Steam View entry for HONEY BEE in MNL 1930, page 252 MHACLIPMore...
INTEGRITY1252571907, Steam View entry for INTEGRITY in MNL 1930, page 263 MHACLIPMore...
KIMBERLEY1258331926, Steam View entry for KIMBERLEY in MNL 1930, page 294 MHACLIPMore...
KINCRAIG1327911920, Steam View entry for KINCRAIG in MNL 1930, page 295 MHACLIPMore...
KIRKCALDY HARBOUR DREDGER NO 11318671913, Steam View entry for KIRKCALDY HARBOUR DREDGER NO 1 in MNL 1930, page 299 MHACLIPMore...
LASHER1318811921, Steam View entry for LASHER in MNL 1930, page 315 MHACLIPMore...
LENA & FRANCOIS1269791929, Steam View entry for LENA & FRANCOIS in MNL 1930, page 318 MHACLIPMore...
LUCY MACKAY1259321913, Steam View entry for LUCY MACKAY in MNL 1930, page 335 MHACLIPMore...
MACE1321811923, Steam View entry for MACE in MNL 1930, page 339 MHACLIPMore...
MAGGIES1252511907, Steam View entry for MAGGIES in MNL 1930, page 341 MHACLIPMore...
MENAT1455521923, Steam View entry for MENAT in MNL 1930, page 361 MHACLIPMore...
MORNING STAR1175781907, Steam View entry for MORNING STAR in MNL 1930, page 373 MHACLIPMore...
NORMAN WILSON1408431923, Steam View entry for NORMAN WILSON in MNL 1930, page 390 MHACLIPMore...
OCEAN ANGLER1300201914, Steam View entry for OCEAN ANGLER in MNL 1930, page 399 MHACLIPMore...
PILOT STAR1455541925, Steam View entry for PILOT STAR in MNL 1930, page 425 MHACLIPMore...
PRESTON1175761906, Steam View entry for PRESTON in MNL 1930, page 434 MHACLIPMore...
PRIDE O'FIFE1269681907, Steam View entry for PRIDE O'FIFE in MNL 1930, page 434 MHACLIPMore...
PRIMROSE1252551907, Steam View entry for PRIMROSE in MNL 1930, page 435 MHACLIPMore...
REFLORESCO1318821924, Steam View entry for REFLORESCO in MNL 1930, page 453 MHACLIPMore...
RESTLESS WAVE1175791907, Steam View entry for RESTLESS WAVE in MNL 1930, page 456 MHACLIPMore...
RETRIEVER1258901920, Steam View entry for RETRIEVER in MNL 1930, page 456 MHACLIPMore...
ROTHESAY BAY1070381911, Steam View entry for ROTHESAY BAY in MNL 1930, page 468 MHACLIPMore...
SAINT AYLES1175771906, Steam View entry for SAINT AYLES in MNL 1930, page 475 MHACLIPMore...
SCOT1151041912, Steam View entry for SCOT in MNL 1930, page 491 MHACLIPMore...
SILVERSCALE1273331924, Steam View entry for SILVERSCALE in MNL 1930, page 502 MHACLIPMore...
SPES AUREA1455471926, Steam View entry for SPES AUREA in MNL 1930, page 514 MHACLIPMore...
SPES MELIOR1273951924, Steam View entry for SPES MELIOR in MNL 1930, page 514 MHACLIPMore...
UBEROUS1318761921, Steam View entry for UBEROUS in MNL 1930, page 561 MHACLIPMore...
UNITY1252541907, Steam View entry for UNITY in MNL 1930, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
VENUS1252601907, Steam View entry for VENUS in MNL 1930, page 568 MHACLIPMore...
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