CLIP - Crew List Index Project

Welcome to CLIP - the Crew List Index Project

CLIP was set up to improve access to the records of British merchant seafarers of the late 19th century and has gathered the largest database of entries from crew lists. This site gives information about:

what crew lists are;
the Crew List Index Project (CLIP);
how to find the original documents and the seafarers on them;
indexes of seafarers including the CLIP CD-ROM, and CLIP finding aids;
CLIP projects on the records of shipping and seafarers.

NB! CLIP is confined to merchant seafarers on British registered ships for the years 1861 to 1913.