Volumes of the Register of Ships, formerly Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, fully accessible and searchable online (between 1764-1998) can be accessed for free and in PDF format via:
This is the first time that pages from the original edition of the Register of Ships 1764-66 have been made available online. The only surviving volume is on permanent loan to the British Library. Please note that not all volumes have been digitised yet, but the Heritage & Education Centre (HEC) are creating searchable scans of our entire collection up to the 2000 edition.
The Registers for 1930-1945 were digitised as part of the Plimsoll ship data project by the Southampton City Libraries and Archives Services in conjunction with HEC. A small percentage of the online volumes listed in the table below were scanned in by Google Books and Internet Archive independently of HEC.
Vessels across the Registers can be found in alphabetical order of ship name. All digitised Registers can be searched by any of the fields such as:
- Ship name
- Master
- Ship owner
- Place of build
For information on the Lloyd's Register of Yachts please click here.
In some cases, fields may be abbreviated such as ‘Capt’. for Captain or ‘Amer.’ for America). If you want to understand the meaning of certain symbols, terms, and abbreviations found in the Registers, please check out our Interpreting the Register Books pages for more information.
Please note that copyright of all images of the 1764-66 edition remains with Lloyd’s Register. If you wish to use our resources please ensure that you properly reference the Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage & Education Centre in your work and consult our Licensing and Terms of use pages. Images © Lloyd’s Register Group Limited 2017.
Online access to the Lloyd's Register of Ships
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1764 - 1820
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1821 - 1880
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1881 - 1945
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1946-2000