Ships shown as registered at Newport in the Mercantile Navy List for 1880

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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ADMIRAL73137Sail, Smack View entry for ADMIRAL in MNL 1880, page 149 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE GRAHAM56533Sail, Barque View entry for ALICE GRAHAM in MNL 1880, page 159 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE LYNE79163Sail, Brigantine View entry for ALICE LYNE in MNL 1880, page 159 MHACLIPMore...
ARGOSY76319Sail, Sloop View entry for ARGOSY in MNL 1880, page 176 MHACLIPMore...
AURORA71434Sail, Brig View entry for AURORA in MNL 1880, page 180 MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE MAUD70138Sail, Barque View entry for BLANCHE MAUD in MNL 1880, page 192 MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE MAUD73611Sail, Cutter View entry for BLANCHE MAUD in MNL 1880, page 192 MHACLIPMore...
BOB CHAMBERS497471875, Steam View entry for BOB CHAMBERS in MNL 1880, page 17 MHACLIPMore...
BRINKBURN PRIORY60512Sail, Barque View entry for BRINKBURN PRIORY in MNL 1880, page 197 MHACLIPMore...
BRISTOL PACKET16935Sail, Smack View entry for BRISTOL PACKET in MNL 1880, page 197 MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA682011872, Steam View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1880, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
BRYN IVOR53347Sail, Barque View entry for BRYN IVOR in MNL 1880, page 201 MHACLIPMore...
BURTON13055Sail, Smack View entry for BURTON in MNL 1880, page 201 MHACLIPMore...
CAERLEON22957Sail, Sloop View entry for CAERLEON in MNL 1880, page 203 MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA654291873, Steam View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1880, page 21 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE MORRIS76315Sail, Barque View entry for CAROLINE MORRIS in MNL 1880, page 207 MHACLIPMore...
CAVALIERE SQUARDELLI68210Sail, Brig View entry for CAVALIERE SQUARDELLI in MNL 1880, page 210 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES P KNIGHT71420Sail, Brigantine View entry for CHARLES P KNIGHT in MNL 1880, page 214 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE ANNIE79196Sail, Smack View entry for CHARLOTTE ANNIE in MNL 1880, page 215 MHACLIPMore...
CHASE5580Sail, Smack View entry for CHASE in MNL 1880, page 215 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF LIMA44143Sail, Barque View entry for CITY OF LIMA in MNL 1880, page 218 MHACLIPMore...
CORNUBIA18145Sail, Brigantine View entry for CORNUBIA in MNL 1880, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
D H BILLS79167Sail, Barkantine View entry for D H BILLS in MNL 1880, page 232 MHACLIPMore...
DAISY66303Sail, Barque View entry for DAISY in MNL 1880, page 233 MHACLIPMore...
DAUNTLESS73139Sail, Cutter View entry for DAUNTLESS in MNL 1880, page 235 MHACLIPMore...
DICTATOR71409Sail, Brigantine View entry for DICTATOR in MNL 1880, page 239 MHACLIPMore...
EDGAR13103Sail, Smack View entry for EDGAR in MNL 1880, page 249 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH MORGAN56521Sail, Schooner View entry for EDITH MORGAN in MNL 1880, page 250 MHACLIPMore...
ELAINE71468Sail, Brigantine View entry for ELAINE in MNL 1880, page 252 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH73138Sail, Cutter View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1880, page 257 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY MARIA22967Sail, Dandy View entry for EMILY MARIA in MNL 1880, page 265 MHACLIPMore...
EMMA JANE76318Sail, Smack View entry for EMMA JANE in MNL 1880, page 267 MHACLIPMore...
ENID565291867, Steam View entry for ENID in MNL 1880, page 44 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL633851871, Steam View entry for ETHEL in MNL 1880, page 46 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY13062Sail, Sloop View entry for FANNY in MNL 1880, page 280 MHACLIPMore...
FIFTY NINE791641878, Steam View entry for FIFTY NINE in MNL 1880, page 49 MHACLIPMore...
FLEETWING63383Sail, Cutter View entry for FLEETWING in MNL 1880, page 285 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE53344Sail, Brig View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1880, page 287 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE180581866, Steam View entry for FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE in MNL 1880, page 50 MHACLIPMore...
FORERUNNER43511Sail, Ketch View entry for FORERUNNER in MNL 1880, page 289 MHACLIPMore...
FOREST BELLE63384Sail, Schooner View entry for FOREST BELLE in MNL 1880, page 290 MHACLIPMore...
FOREST PRINCE56525Sail, Schooner View entry for FOREST PRINCE in MNL 1880, page 290 MHACLIPMore...
FOREST PRINCESS56535Sail, Brigantine View entry for FOREST PRINCESS in MNL 1880, page 290 MHACLIPMore...
FOREST QUEEN16938Sail, Brigantine View entry for FOREST QUEEN in MNL 1880, page 290 MHACLIPMore...
G I JONES56524Sail, Barque View entry for G I JONES in MNL 1880, page 295 MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE & MARY16308Sail, Ketch View entry for GEORGE & MARY in MNL 1880, page 301 MHACLIPMore...
GLEANER79165Sail, Smack View entry for GLEANER in MNL 1880, page 305 MHACLIPMore...
GOLDEN SUNSET73136Sail, Barque View entry for GOLDEN SUNSET in MNL 1880, page 307 MHACLIPMore...
GWENT763201878, Steam View entry for GWENT in MNL 1880, page 58 MHACLIPMore...
HALTON CASTLE44696Sail, Barque View entry for HALTON CASTLE in MNL 1880, page 313 MHACLIPMore...
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