Lloyd's Register of Ships online

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 Centre 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 the Heritage Centre.

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

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 the 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 Centre in your work and consult our Licensing and Terms of use pages.