Ships shown as registered at Sunderland in the Mercantile Navy List for 1940

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
ANDELLE1462291925, Steam View entry for ANDELLE in MNL 1940, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE RITCHIE1448561922, Steam View entry for ANNIE RITCHIE in MNL 1940, page 15 MHACLIPMore...
ARGENTUM1239391930, Steam View entry for ARGENTUM in MNL 1940, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
BENEFICENT1620001931, Steam View entry for BENEFICENT in MNL 1940, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BLUE BELL1228371929, Steam View entry for BLUE BELL in MNL 1940, page 44 MHACLIPMore...
BRIAN1469271924, Steam View entry for BRIAN in MNL 1940, page 49 MHACLIPMore...
BRINKBURN1483461924, Steam View entry for BRINKBURN in MNL 1940, page 50 MHACLIPMore...
C 95137257Sail View entry for C 95 in MNL 1940, page 925 MHACLIPMore...
CINEMA STAR678461920, Steam View entry for CINEMA STAR in MNL 1940, page 76 MHACLIPMore...
COQUETDALE1469251923, Steam View entry for COQUETDALE in MNL 1940, page 90 MHACLIPMore...
EARLY DAWN1448591922, Steam View entry for EARLY DAWN in MNL 1940, page 117 MHACLIPMore...
EDENSIDE1448331921, Steam View entry for EDENSIDE in MNL 1940, page 119 MHACLIPMore...
EFOS1477351926, Steam View entry for EFOS in MNL 1940, page 120 MHACLIPMore...
FERNSIDE1448341921, Steam View entry for FERNSIDE in MNL 1940, page 135 MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE COOKE1469261923, Steam View entry for FLORENCE COOKE in MNL 1940, page 138 MHACLIPMore...
FULWELL1105611934, Steam View entry for FULWELL in MNL 1940, page 145 MHACLIPMore...
GERTRUDE90341Sail, Keel View entry for GERTRUDE in MNL 1940, page 1003 MHACLIPMore...
GOLDEN GLEAM1630491938, Motor View entry for GOLDEN GLEAM in MNL 1940, page 580 MHACLIPMore...
GRANVILLE681271907, Steam View entry for GRANVILLE in MNL 1940, page 160 MHACLIPMore...
GRAP1630461933, Steam View entry for GRAP in MNL 1940, page 160 MHACLIPMore...
HORNET871351920, Steam View entry for HORNET in MNL 1940, page 179 MHACLIPMore...
IOLANTHE1630471935, Auxilliary motor, page 610 View entry for IOLANTHE in MNL 1940, page 610 MHACLIPMore...
Auxilliary motor, Sloop, page 1031 View entry for IOLANTHE in MNL 1940, page 1031 
JEYPORE1372731920, Steam View entry for JEYPORE in MNL 1940, page 195 MHACLIPMore...
KERNEVEL1450051930, Steam View entry for KERNEVEL in MNL 1940, page 205 MHACLIPMore...
KING ALFRED1372681919, Steam View entry for KING ALFRED in MNL 1940, page 207 MHACLIPMore...
KING EDWARD VII1110831920, Steam View entry for KING EDWARD VII in MNL 1940, page 208 MHACLIPMore...
LAHORE1372721920, Steam View entry for LAHORE in MNL 1940, page 220 MHACLIPMore...
LORD BARNARD1448581922, Steam View entry for LORD BARNARD in MNL 1940, page 233 MHACLIPMore...
MANX SHEARWATER1618791935, Motor View entry for MANX SHEARWATER in MNL 1940, page 674 MHACLIPMore...
MILDRED988781920, Steam View entry for MILDRED in MNL 1940, page 258 MHACLIPMore...
NELLIE JANE1630501938, Motor View entry for NELLIE JANE in MNL 1940, page 712 MHACLIPMore...
R W C SCREW KEEL129792Sail View entry for R W C SCREW KEEL in MNL 1940, page 1162 MHACLIPMore...
REGFOS1297521929, Steam View entry for REGFOS in MNL 1940, page 319 MHACLIPMore...
REONORA1469291924, Steam View entry for REONORA in MNL 1940, page 320 MHACLIPMore...
ROKER1192081905, Steam View entry for ROKER in MNL 1940, page 326 MHACLIPMore...
ROSEDENE1665991939, Motor View entry for ROSEDENE in MNL 1940, page 783 MHACLIPMore...
SALVOR119209Sail View entry for SALVOR in MNL 1940, page 1184 MHACLIPMore...
SANDRAIL1064111896, Steam View entry for SANDRAIL in MNL 1940, page 341 MHACLIPMore...
SCHUYLKILL1483581928, Motor View entry for SCHUYLKILL in MNL 1940, page 798 MHACLIPMore...
SD C NO 3161996Sail View entry for SD C NO 3 in MNL 1940, page 1189 MHACLIPMore...
SD C NO 4161997Sail View entry for SD C NO 4 in MNL 1940, page 1189 MHACLIPMore...
SEABURN973911932, Steam View entry for SEABURN in MNL 1940, page 347 MHACLIPMore...
SEAHAM1239601909, Steam View entry for SEAHAM in MNL 1940, page 347 MHACLIPMore...
SIR WALTER RAINE1630511939, Steam View entry for SIR WALTER RAINE in MNL 1940, page 356 MHACLIPMore...
SKARV1295581930, Steam View entry for SKARV in MNL 1940, page 357 MHACLIPMore...
SNOWDON802421938, Steam View entry for SNOWDON in MNL 1940, page 359 MHACLIPMore...
SOUTER1320541910, Steam View entry for SOUTER in MNL 1940, page 361 MHACLIPMore...
SOUTHWICK1372601917, Steam View entry for SOUTHWICK in MNL 1940, page 363 MHACLIPMore...
STAG1068631924, Steam View entry for STAG in MNL 1940, page 364 MHACLIPMore...
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