Ships shown as registered at Penzance 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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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ALBATROSS91431Sail, Ketch View entry for ALBATROSS in MNL 1900, page 395 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA51302Sail, Schooner View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1900, page 401 MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE BELLE56714Sail, Schooner View entry for BESSIE BELLE in MNL 1900, page 422 MHACLIPMore...
CARNSEW910361888, Steam View entry for CARNSEW in MNL 1900, page 60 MHACLIPMore...
CHILDREN'S FRIEND96566Sail, Lugger View entry for CHILDREN'S FRIEND in MNL 1900, page 444 MHACLIPMore...
CHRYSOLITE58190Sail, Schooner View entry for CHRYSOLITE in MNL 1900, page 445 MHACLIPMore...
CHYANDOUR15507Sail, Schooner View entry for CHYANDOUR in MNL 1900, page 445 MHACLIPMore...
CLOCH877211894, Steam View entry for CLOCH in MNL 1900, page 75 MHACLIPMore...
COATH867301897, Steam View entry for COATH in MNL 1900, page 76 MHACLIPMore...
DASHWOOD78452Sail, Schooner View entry for DASHWOOD in MNL 1900, page 459 MHACLIPMore...
DIANA58379Sail, Lugger View entry for DIANA in MNL 1900, page 463 MHACLIPMore...
EUGENIE AUGUSTE86131Sail, Schooner View entry for EUGENIE AUGUSTE in MNL 1900, page 490 MHACLIPMore...
EXCELLENT58387Sail, Lugger View entry for EXCELLENT in MNL 1900, page 492 MHACLIPMore...
FEADON560691894, Steam View entry for FEADON in MNL 1900, page 127 MHACLIPMore...
GERVASE828211884, Steam View entry for GERVASE in MNL 1900, page 143 MHACLIPMore...
GOLDEN LIGHT47287Sail, Schooner View entry for GOLDEN LIGHT in MNL 1900, page 518 MHACLIPMore...
GREENCASTLE799581899, Steam View entry for GREENCASTLE in MNL 1900, page 151 MHACLIPMore...
GUARDIAN965651896, Steam View entry for GUARDIAN in MNL 1900, page 153 MHACLIPMore...
HAYLE965621893, Steam View entry for HAYLE in MNL 1900, page 159 MHACLIPMore...
INDIA678201899, Steam View entry for INDIA in MNL 1900, page 174 MHACLIPMore...
LADY OF THE LAKE58382Sail, Lugger View entry for LADY OF THE LAKE in MNL 1900, page 570 MHACLIPMore...
LAFROWDA56707Sail, Schooner View entry for LAFROWDA in MNL 1900, page 570 MHACLIPMore...
LODORE79080Sail, Ketch View entry for LODORE in MNL 1900, page 582 MHACLIPMore...
LUCIEN99329Sail, Schooner View entry for LUCIEN in MNL 1900, page 586 MHACLIPMore...
LYONNESSE910391889, Steam View entry for LYONNESSE in MNL 1900, page 217 MHACLIPMore...
M J HEDLEY991181894, Steam View entry for M J HEDLEY in MNL 1900, page 218 MHACLIPMore...
MARGUERITE91038Sail, Yawl View entry for MARGUERITE in MNL 1900, page 595 MHACLIPMore...
MARY JAMES29736Sail, Schooner View entry for MARY JAMES in MNL 1900, page 606 MHACLIPMore...
MERA94615Sail, Smack View entry for MERA in MNL 1900, page 613 MHACLIPMore...
MERCUTIO791541891, Steam View entry for MERCUTIO in MNL 1900, page 234 MHACLIPMore...
MIGNONETTE96436Sail, Ketch View entry for MIGNONETTE in MNL 1900, page 615 MHACLIPMore...
MIZPAH85245Sail, Lugger View entry for MIZPAH in MNL 1900, page 619 MHACLIPMore...
OLIVIA867421888, Steam View entry for OLIVIA in MNL 1900, page 261 MHACLIPMore...
ORMEROD897041891, Steam View entry for ORMEROD in MNL 1900, page 264 MHACLIPMore...
PRIDE OF THE SEA78075Sail, Ketch View entry for PRIDE OF THE SEA in MNL 1900, page 654 MHACLIPMore...
QUEEN85256Sail, Ketch View entry for QUEEN in MNL 1900, page 659 MHACLIPMore...
RESOLVE91037Sail, Dandy View entry for RESOLVE in MNL 1900, page 666 MHACLIPMore...
RINGLEADER85260Sail, Schooner View entry for RINGLEADER in MNL 1900, page 668 MHACLIPMore...
SALISBURY762041894, Steam View entry for SALISBURY in MNL 1900, page 313 MHACLIPMore...
SELINA22122Sail, Schooner View entry for SELINA in MNL 1900, page 690 MHACLIPMore...
STELLA MARIS91034Sail, Yawl View entry for STELLA MARIS in MNL 1900, page 703 MHACLIPMore...
SWEET HOPE91749Sail, Schooner View entry for SWEET HOPE in MNL 1900, page 709 MHACLIPMore...
TRELEIGH965641894, Steam View entry for TRELEIGH in MNL 1900, page 352 MHACLIPMore...
UGANDA47152Sail, Schooner View entry for UGANDA in MNL 1900, page 723 MHACLIPMore...
VILLAGE BELLE85254Sail, Schooner View entry for VILLAGE BELLE in MNL 1900, page 732 MHACLIPMore...
VRIL879911897, Steam View entry for VRIL in MNL 1900, page 369 MHACLIPMore...
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