Ships shown as registered at Ramsgate 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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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
A & L G94591Sail, Ketch View entry for A & L G in MNL 1910, page 564 MHACLIPMore...
A J W106554Sail, Ketch View entry for A J W in MNL 1910, page 563 MHACLIPMore...
ACME106559Sail, Ketch View entry for ACME in MNL 1910, page 565 MHACLIPMore...
ADA117369Sail, Ketch View entry for ADA in MNL 1910, page 566 MHACLIPMore...
ADELAM121363Sail, Cutter View entry for ADELAM in MNL 1910, page 567 MHACLIPMore...
ADIEU81924Sail, Ketch View entry for ADIEU in MNL 1910, page 567 MHACLIPMore...
ALERT77385Sail, Ketch View entry for ALERT in MNL 1910, page 572 MHACLIPMore...
ALESSIE128465Sail, Ketch View entry for ALESSIE in MNL 1910, page 572 MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED109112Sail, Ketch View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1910, page 573 MHACLIPMore...
ALLIANCE117359Sail, Ketch View entry for ALLIANCE in MNL 1910, page 576 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA81922Sail, Ketch View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1910, page 577 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE95718Sail, Ketch View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1910, page 585 MHACLIPMore...
ARROW94585Sail, Ketch View entry for ARROW in MNL 1910, page 588 MHACLIPMore...
AVONA99977Sail, Ketch View entry for AVONA in MNL 1910, page 592 MHACLIPMore...
BELLE OF THE FLEET68846Sail, Smack View entry for BELLE OF THE FLEET in MNL 1910, page 597 MHACLIPMore...
BEN MYCHREE117368Sail, Ketch View entry for BEN MYCHREE in MNL 1910, page 598 MHACLIPMore...
BIRICA128468Sail, Ketch View entry for BIRICA in MNL 1910, page 601 MHACLIPMore...
BONNIE BELLE84000Sail, Ketch View entry for BONNIE BELLE in MNL 1910, page 604 MHACLIPMore...
BOY JACK109101Sail, Ketch View entry for BOY JACK in MNL 1910, page 605 MHACLIPMore...
BOY WILL106566Sail, Ketch View entry for BOY WILL in MNL 1910, page 605 MHACLIPMore...
BRILLIANT94589Sail, Ketch View entry for BRILLIANT in MNL 1910, page 606 MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA106553Sail, Dandy View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1910, page 607 MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH QUEEN81921Sail, Ketch View entry for BRITISH QUEEN in MNL 1910, page 608 MHACLIPMore...
BUDGET128470Sail, Ketch View entry for BUDGET in MNL 1910, page 610 MHACLIPMore...
BUFFALO GAL19907Sail, Lugger View entry for BUFFALO GAL in MNL 1910, page 610 MHACLIPMore...
BUTTERCUP97914Sail, Ketch View entry for BUTTERCUP in MNL 1910, page 610 MHACLIPMore...
CAREFUL121380Sail, Ketch View entry for CAREFUL in MNL 1910, page 615 MHACLIPMore...
CHALLENGER84001Sail, Ketch View entry for CHALLENGER in MNL 1910, page 620 MHACLIPMore...
CHERUB117361Sail, Ketch View entry for CHERUB in MNL 1910, page 622 MHACLIPMore...
CICERONE99975Sail, Ketch View entry for CICERONE in MNL 1910, page 624 MHACLIPMore...
CLIPPER121369Sail, Ketch View entry for CLIPPER in MNL 1910, page 626 MHACLIPMore...
CONCORD121366Sail, Ketch View entry for CONCORD in MNL 1910, page 629 MHACLIPMore...
CONQUEST80249Sail, Ketch View entry for CONQUEST in MNL 1910, page 630 MHACLIPMore...
CORDELIA73497Sail, Ketch View entry for CORDELIA in MNL 1910, page 631 MHACLIPMore...
COSMOPOLITE110301Sail, Ketch View entry for COSMOPOLITE in MNL 1910, page 632 MHACLIPMore...
CRITERION84008Sail, Ketch View entry for CRITERION in MNL 1910, page 633 MHACLIPMore...
DEERHOUND104766Sail, Ketch View entry for DEERHOUND in MNL 1910, page 641 MHACLIPMore...
DEFENDER106551Sail, Ketch View entry for DEFENDER in MNL 1910, page 641 MHACLIPMore...
DEWDROP117353Sail, Ketch View entry for DEWDROP in MNL 1910, page 643 MHACLIPMore...
DIAMOND CROSS117364Sail, Dandy View entry for DIAMOND CROSS in MNL 1910, page 643 MHACLIPMore...
DON104751Sail, Ketch View entry for DON in MNL 1910, page 645 MHACLIPMore...
DORADO117363Sail, Dandy View entry for DORADO in MNL 1910, page 646 MHACLIPMore...
E & I G94597Sail, Ketch View entry for E & I G in MNL 1910, page 651 MHACLIPMore...
E L G128462Sail, Ketch View entry for E L G in MNL 1910, page 651 MHACLIPMore...
EARLY DAWN117366Sail, Ketch View entry for EARLY DAWN in MNL 1910, page 653 MHACLIPMore...
EDITH99979Sail, Dandy View entry for EDITH in MNL 1910, page 655 MHACLIPMore...
ELEANOR97709Sail, Ketch View entry for ELEANOR in MNL 1910, page 658 MHACLIPMore...
ELEANORA99978Sail, Ketch View entry for ELEANORA in MNL 1910, page 658 MHACLIPMore...
ELSIE104758Sail, Ketch View entry for ELSIE in MNL 1910, page 664 MHACLIPMore...
EMBLEM94583Sail, Ketch View entry for EMBLEM in MNL 1910, page 665 MHACLIPMore...
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