Ships shown as registered at Milford 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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A T104112Sail, Ketch View entry for A T in MNL 1910, page 564 MHACLIPMore...
ABELARD1287441909, Steam View entry for ABELARD in MNL 1910, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION1274101907, Steam View entry for ALBION in MNL 1910, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE93437Sail, Ketch View entry for ALICE in MNL 1910, page 574 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA1216051905, Steam View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1910, page 17 MHACLIPMore...
AMY1124621903, Steam View entry for AMY in MNL 1910, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
ANGLE1274171908, Steam View entry for ANGLE in MNL 1910, page 22 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE93438Sail, Ketch View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1910, page 582 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE934351889, Steam View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1910, page 24 MHACLIPMore...
APLEY1274181908, Steam View entry for APLEY in MNL 1910, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ARDENT1274131908, Steam View entry for ARDENT in MNL 1910, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ARFON1274141908, Steam View entry for ARFON in MNL 1910, page 28 MHACLIPMore...
ATHALIA1274061909, Steam View entry for ATHALIA in MNL 1910, page 35 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE82976Sail, Ketch View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1910, page 595 MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE1274081907, Steam View entry for BEATRICE in MNL 1910, page 47 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE112455Sail, Ketch View entry for BESSIE in MNL 1910, page 599 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE JACKET995571906, Steam View entry for BLUE JACKET in MNL 1910, page 60 MHACLIPMore...
BOY HARRY121602Sail, Ketch View entry for BOY HARRY in MNL 1910, page 605 MHACLIPMore...
BUSH1274161908, Steam View entry for BUSH in MNL 1910, page 73 MHACLIPMore...
CALDY1274201908, Steam View entry for CALDY in MNL 1910, page 77 MHACLIPMore...
CALIPH1216101906, Steam View entry for CALIPH in MNL 1910, page 78 MHACLIPMore...
CALLIOPE1274071907, Steam View entry for CALLIOPE in MNL 1910, page 78 MHACLIPMore...
CALYPSO1124601901, Steam View entry for CALYPSO in MNL 1910, page 78 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIA1216031905, Steam View entry for CAMBRIA in MNL 1910, page 79 MHACLIPMore...
CAMEO1216161907, Steam View entry for CAMEO in MNL 1910, page 80 MHACLIPMore...
CELTIA1216201907, Steam View entry for CELTIA in MNL 1910, page 89 MHACLIPMore...
CENTAUR1124671904, Steam View entry for CENTAUR in MNL 1910, page 89 MHACLIPMore...
CHANTICLEER1149911907, Steam View entry for CHANTICLEER in MNL 1910, page 92 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES PEARCE15530Sail, Smack View entry for CHARLES PEARCE in MNL 1910, page 621 MHACLIPMore...
CIRCE999941892, Steam View entry for CIRCE in MNL 1910, page 97 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA86524Sail, Ketch View entry for CLARA in MNL 1910, page 625 MHACLIPMore...
CLEOPATRA1274041907, Steam View entry for CLEOPATRA in MNL 1910, page 105 MHACLIPMore...
COLWYN1124511899, Steam View entry for COLWYN in MNL 1910, page 110 MHACLIPMore...
COMUS983761891, Steam View entry for COMUS in MNL 1910, page 111 MHACLIPMore...
CORNET1124531909, Steam View entry for CORNET in MNL 1910, page 958 MHACLIPMore...
CRISTAL47081Sail, Ketch View entry for CRISTAL in MNL 1910, page 962 MHACLIPMore...
CUCKOO1041691907, Steam View entry for CUCKOO in MNL 1910, page 123 MHACLIPMore...
DEWSLAND1274051907, Steam View entry for DEWSLAND in MNL 1910, page 135 MHACLIPMore...
DINAS1287471909, Steam View entry for DINAS in MNL 1910, page 136 MHACLIPMore...
DOMINION114243Sail, Ketch View entry for DOMINION in MNL 1910, page 645 MHACLIPMore...
DORINDY82971Sail, Cutter View entry for DORINDY in MNL 1910, page 646 MHACLIPMore...
DOWLAIS1124521899, Steam View entry for DOWLAIS in MNL 1910, page 142 MHACLIPMore...
EARNEST872751898, Steam View entry for EARNEST in MNL 1910, page 151 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH121611Sail, Ketch View entry for EDITH in MNL 1910, page 655 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH WILLIAMS53157Sail, Smack View entry for EDITH WILLIAMS in MNL 1910, page 655 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD VII1216091906, Steam View entry for EDWARD VII in MNL 1910, page 156 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH71870Sail, Ketch View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1910, page 660 MHACLIPMore...
EMERALD1216011905, Steam View entry for EMERALD in MNL 1910, page 162 MHACLIPMore...
ESMERALDA68344Sail, Cutter View entry for ESMERALDA in MNL 1910, page 671 MHACLIPMore...
ESSEX1216071906, Steam View entry for ESSEX in MNL 1910, page 169 MHACLIPMore...
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