Merchant ship port of registry is a subject leaving me somewhat confused.
Could any of our many learned merchant navy members explain how and when after completion a merchant ship becomes registered, that is, its port of registry which it displays and details of which appear in the appropriate Lloyd's registers.
For example a particular Fort class cargo ship i am researching is built in Vancouver, Canada but registered in Middlesborough.
Many others are registered in Vancouver, some in other British ports, London, Hull amongst them.
Then others are registered in 1 port and subsequently changed, often more than once with all this whilst WW2 was still going on.
Finally, were many merchants registerd in Middlesborough.
Thanks for any and all help.
May i wish all our members a most enlightening 2016.