Ships shown as registered at Swansea in the Mercantile Navy List for 1890

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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ABERLEMNO73832Sail, Barque View entry for ABERLEMNO in MNL 1890, page 271 MHACLIPMore...
ABERMAED784441883, Steam View entry for ABERMAED in MNL 1890, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
ABERTAWE784501884, Steam View entry for ABERTAWE in MNL 1890, page 2 MHACLIPMore...
AGNES LILIAN60448Sail, Ship View entry for AGNES LILIAN in MNL 1890, page 276 MHACLIPMore...
ALICE GRAHAM56533Sail, Barque View entry for ALICE GRAHAM in MNL 1890, page 282 MHACLIPMore...
ALPHONSE PARRAN891251889, Steam View entry for ALPHONSE PARRAN in MNL 1890, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
AMORETTE66297Sail, Brig View entry for AMORETTE in MNL 1890, page 287 MHACLIPMore...
ANDAMAN29984Sail, Barque View entry for ANDAMAN in MNL 1890, page 288 MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE59753Sail, Brigantine View entry for ANNIE in MNL 1890, page 292 MHACLIPMore...
ANTAGONIST77676Sail, Barkantine View entry for ANTAGONIST in MNL 1890, page 294 MHACLIPMore...
ANTARCTIC70503Sail, Barque View entry for ANTARCTIC in MNL 1890, page 294 MHACLIPMore...
ARTIZAN66404Sail, Barkantine View entry for ARTIZAN in MNL 1890, page 299 MHACLIPMore...
ATLANTIC60635Sail, Barque View entry for ATLANTIC in MNL 1890, page 300 MHACLIPMore...
AURORE78449Sail, Brigantine View entry for AURORE in MNL 1890, page 301 MHACLIPMore...
AVOSET78445Sail, Schooner View entry for AVOSET in MNL 1890, page 302 MHACLIPMore...
BESS MITCHELL60653Sail, Schooner View entry for BESS MITCHELL in MNL 1890, page 308 MHACLIPMore...
BETA51101Sail, Barque View entry for BETA in MNL 1890, page 309 MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE66435Sail, Brig View entry for BLANCHE in MNL 1890, page 312 MHACLIPMore...
BLONDE66410Sail, Brigantine View entry for BLONDE in MNL 1890, page 312 MHACLIPMore...
BRIDESMAID71482Sail, Brigantine View entry for BRIDESMAID in MNL 1890, page 315 MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA28139Sail, Schooner View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1890, page 316 MHACLIPMore...
BROUGHTON60054Sail, Barque View entry for BROUGHTON in MNL 1890, page 318 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBALU1294Sail, Barkantine View entry for CAMBALU in MNL 1890, page 322 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIAN65535Sail, Brig View entry for CAMBRIAN in MNL 1890, page 322 MHACLIPMore...
CAMBRIAN891181886, Steam View entry for CAMBRIAN in MNL 1890, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
CAPE RACE67939Sail, Barque View entry for CAPE RACE in MNL 1890, page 323 MHACLIPMore...
CASWELL70492Sail, Barque View entry for CASWELL in MNL 1890, page 326 MHACLIPMore...
CHALLENGER891201885, Steam View entry for CHALLENGER in MNL 1890, page 46 MHACLIPMore...
CHERITON891271890, Steam View entry for CHERITON in MNL 1890, page 669 MHACLIPMore...
CHISLEHURST85787Sail, Barkantine View entry for CHISLEHURST in MNL 1890, page 333 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA50799Sail, Brigantine View entry for CLARA in MNL 1890, page 335 MHACLIPMore...
CLARA51944Sail, Brigantine View entry for CLARA in MNL 1890, page 335 MHACLIPMore...
COLLIER157001880, Steam View entry for COLLIER in MNL 1890, page 55 MHACLIPMore...
CONDOR89121Sail, Cutter View entry for CONDOR in MNL 1890, page 339 MHACLIPMore...
CONNAUGHT RANGER67787Sail, Ship View entry for CONNAUGHT RANGER in MNL 1890, page 340 MHACLIPMore...
COSMOPOLITA78439Sail, Barque View entry for COSMOPOLITA in MNL 1890, page 343 MHACLIPMore...
CROYDON44016Sail, Barque View entry for CROYDON in MNL 1890, page 344 MHACLIPMore...
CRUISER784401881, Steam View entry for CRUISER in MNL 1890, page 62 MHACLIPMore...
CURLEW78438Sail, Yawl View entry for CURLEW in MNL 1890, page 346 MHACLIPMore...
CWM AVON60625Sail, Schooner View entry for CWM AVON in MNL 1890, page 346 MHACLIPMore...
CWM DONKIN74193Sail, Barkantine View entry for CWM DONKIN in MNL 1890, page 346 MHACLIPMore...
CYPHER83245Sail, Barkantine View entry for CYPHER in MNL 1890, page 346 MHACLIPMore...
DARWIN88643Sail, Barkantine View entry for DARWIN in MNL 1890, page 349 MHACLIPMore...
DELTA51107Sail, Barque View entry for DELTA in MNL 1890, page 351 MHACLIPMore...
DIGBY GRAND606551871, Steam View entry for DIGBY GRAND in MNL 1890, page 69 MHACLIPMore...
DOLPHIN910251888, Steam View entry for DOLPHIN in MNL 1890, page 70 MHACLIPMore...
DRUID548241884, Steam View entry for DRUID in MNL 1890, page 72 MHACLIPMore...
EFFENDI83240Sail, Barkantine View entry for EFFENDI in MNL 1890, page 364 MHACLIPMore...
ELISE77675Sail, Barkantine View entry for ELISE in MNL 1890, page 365 MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA20909Sail, Schooner View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1890, page 366 MHACLIPMore...
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