This page shows data for one official number. Bear in mind that ships were often re-named so there may be several different names for the same vessel and different spellings are common. Where the original source probably contains an error, such as a typo, we have marked our transcription with  ? . However, we have transcribed 'as seen' and it is up to you to decide which you think is the definitive version.
 
The source of the information is shown. This may be crew lists, shipping and fishing registers, the Mercantile Navy List (MNL) or the Appropriation Books at the Registry of Shipping and Seamen (RSS), in which case the port or ports at which the ship was registered are shown. The index also returns any book references which quote the official number, showing the author's name first.
 
From this page, you can search other indexes for this official number, particularly our data for crew lists at local Record Offices and at The National Archives. The links are below the table of data. Please note that some of these links go to external sites, and we can't guarantee that they have data for this particular official number.
 
Please see the finding aids page for more details on sources, the abbreviations we have used, and acknowledgements.
 
The database includes every British registered ship from 1855 to the early 1950s with official numbers 1 to 200000. It was last updated on 14 September 2014 and contains 677,170 entries.