Welcome to the CLIP image viewer
Welcome to the CLIP image viewer - designed to make it easy to browse and search the Mercantile Navy List (MNL).
MNL was published annually from 1849 to 1977 and, from 1857, provides a complete list of all British
registered vessels afloat at that time, with their official number and port of registry. Apart from
the early editions, the lists also show brief details of the vessels and their owners.
The CLIP image viewer accesses images from several sources, so you can browse through
one edition of MNL, move to a different section (sail, steam or motor), change to another year,
or change the name of the vessel to search for.
To start, please enter the name of the vessel to search for:
and choose a year from this list of the available editions of MNL:
Next, choose from these options:
Steam
Motor
Sail
Then please click here:
The CLIP image viewer is part of the CLIP vessel search system, which provides
access to the CLIP vessel index with more than 500,000 entries, and to indexed links to other web sites.
To find out more about the CLIP vessel search, or about CLIP, please click one of the links below.