Ships shown as registered at Stockton 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.

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
ALOUETTE1356071924, Motor View entry for ALOUETTE in MNL 1940, page 443 MHACLIPMore...
CRAGSIDE1491581935, Steam View entry for CRAGSIDE in MNL 1940, page 95 MHACLIPMore...
DISPERSER1454891937, Steam View entry for DISPERSER in MNL 1940, page 109 MHACLIPMore...
FRANCIS SAMUELSON1356041924, Steam View entry for FRANCIS SAMUELSON in MNL 1940, page 143 MHACLIPMore...
GARTH1356101925, Steam View entry for GARTH in MNL 1940, page 148 MHACLIPMore...
ISAAC WILSON959231889, Steam View entry for ISAAC WILSON in MNL 1940, page 188 MHACLIPMore...
RECLAMATION PLANT NO 1149157Sail View entry for RECLAMATION PLANT NO 1 in MNL 1940, page 1165 MHACLIPMore...
REEDPOOL1356091924, Steam View entry for REEDPOOL in MNL 1940, page 318 MHACLIPMore...
SWAINBY1356031917, Steam View entry for SWAINBY in MNL 1940, page 376 MHACLIPMore...
T C C 20149151Sail View entry for T C C 20 in MNL 1940, page 1211 MHACLIPMore...
T C C 21149152Sail View entry for T C C 21 in MNL 1940, page 1211 MHACLIPMore...
T C C 22149153Sail View entry for T C C 22 in MNL 1940, page 1211 MHACLIPMore...
T C C 23149154Sail View entry for T C C 23 in MNL 1940, page 1211 MHACLIPMore...
T C C DREDGER NO 101491551931, Steam View entry for T C C DREDGER NO 10 in MNL 1940, page 378 MHACLIPMore...
T C C HOPPER NO 11356051924, Steam View entry for T C C HOPPER NO 1 in MNL 1940, page 378 MHACLIPMore...
T C C HOPPER NO 21356081924, Steam View entry for T C C HOPPER NO 2 in MNL 1940, page 378 MHACLIPMore...
T C C PRIESTMAN DREDGER NO 2135606Sail View entry for T C C PRIESTMAN DREDGER NO 2 in MNL 1940, page 1211 MHACLIPMore...
WILLIAM HANSON1065011897, Steam View entry for WILLIAM HANSON in MNL 1940, page 421 MHACLIPMore...
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