Ships shown as registered at Montrose in the Mercantile Navy List for 1870

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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ACTIVE19443Sail View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1870, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ADVENTURE5450Sail View entry for ADVENTURE in MNL 1870, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES10211Sail View entry for AGNES in MNL 1870, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
AID7134Sail View entry for AID in MNL 1870, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ALBION27622Sail View entry for ALBION in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALECTO15620Sail View entry for ALECTO in MNL 1870, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT22264Sail View entry for ALERT in MNL 1870, page 12 MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN15630Sail View entry for ALLAN in MNL 1870, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
ANEMONE60289Sail View entry for ANEMONE in MNL 1870, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
ANNE28305Sail View entry for ANNE in MNL 1870, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE LARGIE51099Sail View entry for ANNIE LARGIE in MNL 1870, page 27 MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL12817Sail View entry for ARIEL in MNL 1870, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
AURORA60291Sail View entry for AURORA in MNL 1870, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY3533Sail View entry for BETSEY in MNL 1870, page 44 MHACLIPMore...
BOB CHAMBERS44298Steam View entry for BOB CHAMBERS in MNL 1870, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA21294Sail View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1870, page 52 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA21295Sail View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1870, page 58 MHACLIPMore...
CATHARINE28302Sail View entry for CATHARINE in MNL 1870, page 63 MHACLIPMore...
CHARITY10249Sail View entry for CHARITY in MNL 1870, page 67 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES17482Sail View entry for CHARLES in MNL 1870, page 68 MHACLIPMore...
CHARM19896Sail View entry for CHARM in MNL 1870, page 70 MHACLIPMore...
CHERUB55335Sail View entry for CHERUB in MNL 1870, page 70 MHACLIPMore...
COMET51098Sail View entry for COMET in MNL 1870, page 78 MHACLIPMore...
COQUETTE26161Sail View entry for COQUETTE in MNL 1870, page 82 MHACLIPMore...
COURIER60293Sail View entry for COURIER in MNL 1870, page 84 MHACLIPMore...
DIADEM141Sail View entry for DIADEM in MNL 1870, page 94 MHACLIPMore...
EAGLE47107Sail View entry for EAGLE in MNL 1870, page 102 MHACLIPMore...
EBENEZER51095Sail View entry for EBENEZER in MNL 1870, page 103 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE47109Sail View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1870, page 104 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH22298Sail View entry for EDITH in MNL 1870, page 105 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA14939Sail View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1870, page 110 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH44563Sail View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1870, page 113 MHACLIPMore...
EMERALD34125Sail View entry for EMERALD in MNL 1870, page 119 MHACLIPMore...
EMIGRANT12852Sail View entry for EMIGRANT in MNL 1870, page 119 MHACLIPMore...
ESK44560Sail View entry for ESK in MNL 1870, page 126 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELSIOR60283Sail View entry for EXCELSIOR in MNL 1870, page 130 MHACLIPMore...
EXPERT12810Sail View entry for EXPERT in MNL 1870, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
EXPRESS21299Sail View entry for EXPRESS in MNL 1870, page 131 MHACLIPMore...
FINELLA18677Sail View entry for FINELLA in MNL 1870, page 138 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA47106Sail View entry for FLORA in MNL 1870, page 140 MHACLIPMore...
FRIENDS15910Sail View entry for FRIENDS in MNL 1870, page 148 MHACLIPMore...
GOOD INTENT60294Sail View entry for GOOD INTENT in MNL 1870, page 425 MHACLIPMore...
HAIDEE7796Sail View entry for HAIDEE in MNL 1870, page 165 MHACLIPMore...
HARRIET28307Sail View entry for HARRIET in MNL 1870, page 169 MHACLIPMore...
HENRY32801Sail View entry for HENRY in MNL 1870, page 174 MHACLIPMore...
HO HOANG47102Sail View entry for HO HOANG in MNL 1870, page 179 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE6819Sail View entry for HOPE in MNL 1870, page 180 MHACLIPMore...
HOPE19061Sail View entry for HOPE in MNL 1870, page 180 MHACLIPMore...
INVERGORDON43092Sail View entry for INVERGORDON in MNL 1870, page 187 MHACLIPMore...
INVERMARK28982Sail View entry for INVERMARK in MNL 1870, page 187 MHACLIPMore...
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