Ships shown as registered at Newport 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  ? .

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ACTIVE453001888, Steam View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1900, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ALASSIO863591883, Steam View entry for ALASSIO in MNL 1900, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT1062571899, Steam View entry for ALERT in MNL 1900, page 754 MHACLIPMore...
ARGOSY76319Sail, Sloop View entry for ARGOSY in MNL 1900, page 411 MHACLIPMore...
ARROW78458Sail, Sloop View entry for ARROW in MNL 1900, page 412 MHACLIPMore...
AUCKLAND CASTLE863581883, Steam View entry for AUCKLAND CASTLE in MNL 1900, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
BELLE OF THE USK988751891, Steam View entry for BELLE OF THE USK in MNL 1900, page 36 MHACLIPMore...
BURTON13055Sail, Smack View entry for BURTON in MNL 1900, page 432 MHACLIPMore...
CAERLEON22957Sail, Sloop View entry for CAERLEON in MNL 1900, page 433 MHACLIPMore...
CASSIA863601884, Steam View entry for CASSIA in MNL 1900, page 61 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES P KNIGHT71420Sail, Brigantine View entry for CHARLES P KNIGHT in MNL 1900, page 442 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE ANNIE79166Sail, Smack View entry for CHARLOTTE ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 443 MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF YORK790481882, Steam View entry for CITY OF YORK in MNL 1900, page 71 MHACLIPMore...
CRIMEA913701889, Steam View entry for CRIMEA in MNL 1900, page 85 MHACLIPMore...
DAUNTLESS73139Sail, Cutter View entry for DAUNTLESS in MNL 1900, page 459 MHACLIPMore...
EDGAR13103Sail, Smack View entry for EDGAR in MNL 1900, page 471 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH825571883, Steam View entry for EDITH in MNL 1900, page 109 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH15324Sail, Ketch View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1900, page 477 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH73138Sail, Cutter View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1900, page 477 MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN14231Sail, Schooner View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1900, page 479 MHACLIPMore...
ELORRIO988811894, Steam View entry for ELORRIO in MNL 1900, page 114 MHACLIPMore...
EMILY MARIA22967Sail, Dandy View entry for EMILY MARIA in MNL 1900, page 483 MHACLIPMore...
EMMA & ELLEN69221Sail, Dandy View entry for EMMA & ELLEN in MNL 1900, page 484 MHACLIPMore...
ENID565291867, Steam View entry for ENID in MNL 1900, page 117 MHACLIPMore...
ETHEL633851871, Steam View entry for ETHEL in MNL 1900, page 120 MHACLIPMore...
FLEETWING63383Sail, Cutter View entry for FLEETWING in MNL 1900, page 499 MHACLIPMore...
FLORA91364Sail, Cutter View entry for FLORA in MNL 1900, page 500 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE53344Sail, Brigantine View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1900, page 501 MHACLIPMore...
FOREST BELLE63384Sail, Schooner View entry for FOREST BELLE in MNL 1900, page 503 MHACLIPMore...
FRIARY825591882, Steam View entry for FRIARY in MNL 1900, page 136 MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE & MARY16308Sail, Ketch View entry for GEORGE & MARY in MNL 1900, page 513 MHACLIPMore...
GOLDCLIFFE825581882, Steam View entry for GOLDCLIFFE in MNL 1900, page 148 MHACLIPMore...
GWENDOLINE870231898, Steam View entry for GWENDOLINE in MNL 1900, page 154 MHACLIPMore...
HAWK42407Sail, Schooner View entry for HAWK in MNL 1900, page 528 MHACLIPMore...
IRWIN863541883, Steam View entry for IRWIN in MNL 1900, page 178 MHACLIPMore...
ISCA496971895, Steam View entry for ISCA in MNL 1900, page 178 MHACLIPMore...
J B WOOD66411Sail, Schooner View entry for J B WOOD in MNL 1900, page 546 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN11631Sail, Trow View entry for JOHN in MNL 1900, page 554 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN LAWRENCE988801894, Steam View entry for JOHN LAWRENCE in MNL 1900, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN MARYCHURCH838031892, Steam View entry for JOHN MARYCHURCH in MNL 1900, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
KINGFISHER897561884, Steam View entry for KINGFISHER in MNL 1900, page 195 MHACLIPMore...
LADY MARY13191Sail, Sloop View entry for LADY MARY in MNL 1900, page 569 MHACLIPMore...
LADY WOLSELEY91351Sail, Barque View entry for LADY WOLSELEY in MNL 1900, page 570 MHACLIPMore...
LAURINA82551Sail, Cutter View entry for LAURINA in MNL 1900, page 573 MHACLIPMore...
LEADER79162Sail, Smack View entry for LEADER in MNL 1900, page 574 MHACLIPMore...
LILLIAN MORRIS73131Sail, Barque View entry for LILLIAN MORRIS in MNL 1900, page 577 MHACLIPMore...
LINCOLNSHIRE560791888, Steam View entry for LINCOLNSHIRE in MNL 1900, page 209 MHACLIPMore...
LITTLE ANNIE65118Sail, Sloop View entry for LITTLE ANNIE in MNL 1900, page 579 MHACLIPMore...
LIVONIA71429Sail, Brigantine View entry for LIVONIA in MNL 1900, page 580 MHACLIPMore...
LLANTHEWY897591884, Steam View entry for LLANTHEWY in MNL 1900, page 211 MHACLIPMore...
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