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Thames Sailing Barges

The details of Thames sailing barges have been transcribed from a number of Mercantile Navy List volumes. The Source column will indicate the source volume for a particular set of details - enter this string (such as MNL1916) in the Search field if you want to restrict the entries to a particular year.

The History column contains notes from the MNL and also (in square brackets) has data added from other sources.

With such a large volume of data, there are inevitably some errors. The MNL itself has errors - unless there is an obvious typographical error, the data in the book has been copied as written.
Source

Notes

MNL1893

Mercantile Navy List for 1893.
Only a few entries for this have been transcribed, where they clarify the history of a particular barge.
Mersea Museum has a copy of this book - but only the Sail section exists. This is probably an historic book that has travelled via Hervey Benham and John Leather.

MNL1907

Mercantile Navy List for 1907.
Only a few entries for this have been transcribed, where they clarify the history of a particular barge.
Mersea Museum has a copy of this book.

MNL1916

Mercantile Navy List for 1916.
All entries have been transcribed if they are thought to be for a Thames sailing barge. Thank you to Don Wright for the loan of this book.

MNL1919

Mercantile Navy List for 1919.
Only a few entries for this have been transcribed, where they clarify the history of a particular barge.
Mersea Museum has a copy of this book.

MNL1933

Mercantile Navy List for 1933.
13 Nov 2009 this list has now been removed and 'replaced' with the 1934 list. The 1934 list has been directly transcribed from the book and is more accurate.

MNL1934

Mercantile Navy List for 1934.
All entries have been transcribed if they are thought to be for a Thames sailing barge. Thank you to David Patient for the loan of this book. Mersea Museum has a scanned copy of this book.

MNL1938

Mercantile Navy List for 1938.
All entries have been transcribed if they are thought to be for a Thames sailing barge. However, the records have been copied several times and errors have crept in. Mersea Museum does not have a copy of the 1938 MNL and is not in a position to correct it. The loan of a copy would be very welcome.


Barges listed in the 1899 Mercantile Navy List have been extracted and published as a booklet by the Society for Sailing Barge Research. See the SSBR website for details.