Ships shown as registered at Yarmouth in BT 111

British ships were registered at one of hundreds of ports of registry around Britain and what were then British colonies.

This page is an index of ships by their port of registry using data from the contemporary official sources such as the Mercantile Navy List (MNL) and the Appropriation Books.

For each port, it shows first a count of the entries by year. For a year selected from that list, it shows ship names and official numbers, sorted first by name, then by official number, with other details such as date of registration, and rig. For each record, links are provided to images of the source documents and to other data items such as holdings of crew lists.

For a full explanation of the records of British shipping, please see our information page, here: Records of British ships

How to search for ships by port

As described above, first select the port, then the year from the table of counts of ships.

For some ports, where there were other ports nearby, ships may have been registered at one of those ports. Where this is a possibility, the form provides facilities to switch to one of the other ports, or to see data for all the ports together.

Reading the results

The results show the names of ships registered at the port according to the records for that year. For record sets after 1855, the ship's official number is shown. The results show any other details from the source, and the exact reference for the source so that you can see where our information came from. The  icon links to images of the source.

For the pre-1857 data drawn from BT 111 and BT 162, there is a link on the right hand side Data post 1855 which will search the CLIP data for later years by name and port, looking for possible matches in the period 1855 to 1870. Beware! Because there were no official numbers for this period, these are only tentative suggestions, not exact matches. Some common names could result in many possibilities!

For post-1857 data, which has official numbers, there are also links to show holdings of crew lists for that ship, using the Maritime History Archive index and our own CLIP index.

The 'More...' link will show all the information that we have for that official number.

The records are initially sorted by the ship's name. For the pre-1857 records, the records can be sorted by year and number of registration; for the post-1857 data, they can be sorted by official number. To change the sort, click the small icon next to the column heading.

For data from BT 111 and 1850 (BT 162), there is a final column, Port no/PR no, shows port number and port rotation number combinations for that ship, which we have recorded or have interpolated from crew list records for the period 1845 to 1854 in BT 98 at TNA. These numbers were used in the records of seafarers such as BT 113 and BT 124.

For more details of port numbers, see Port numbers . For more details of port rotation numbers, see Port rotation numbers

The entries are colour coded.  nn/nnn  indicates data drawn from BT 98.  nn/nnn  indicates data interpolated from BT 98 data. Blank entries indicate where we have no data and are not able to interpolate data reliably, for example registrations pre-1845. Many early (and some post-1853) registrations may never have been allocated a port rotation number.

The link next to the data goes to the main port rotation numbers page for that registration.

Our thanks to James Canney for suggesting adding the port rotation number data.

Data sources

The sources of the data are:

Please see our general information page CLIP data for details on sources, methodology, the abbreviations we have used, and our acknowledgements.

Be aware! CLIP data is transcribed 'as seen' - we have not tried to interpret or correct it (but see note about BT 111 in the Data sources section). Where we have doubts about an item, or have edited it, we mark it with a  ? .

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Beware! the links on the right hand side search CLIP data for later years but there were no official numbers pre-1855, so these are only tentative suggestions, not definitive links.

Ship Sort by name Registry Sort by register year Registry closure Source Links Port no/PR no
ABEONA8/1838, 63 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 63 More...  Data post 1855 
45/1844, 25 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 64108/775 Lookup PR noPR
62/1846, 19 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 65108/929 Lookup PR noPR
2/1847, 19 tons Re-registered at Yarmouth 65/1848 BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 66108/939 Lookup PR noPR
4/1847, 25 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 67108/941 Lookup PR noPR
25/1847, 62 tons Re-registered at Yarmouth 11/1852 BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 68108/962 Lookup PR noPR
65/1848 previously Inverness 14/1845  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 46108/1055 Lookup PR noPR
65/1848 previously Yarmouth 2/1847  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 66108/1055 Lookup PR noPR
23/1851, 69 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 2, row 29108/1260 Lookup PR noPR
11/1852 previously Yarmouth 25/1847  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 68108/1323 Lookup PR noPR
11/1852, 62 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 2, row 31108/1323 Lookup PR noPR
63/1852, 62 tons Registry transferred to Faversham 8/1855 BT 111/29-1, p 2, row 42 Data post 1855108/1375 Lookup PR noPR
35/1855 previously Cley 10/1850  BT 111/29-1, p 2, row 7 
35/1855, 28 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 3, row 3 
ABRAHAM60/1837, 52 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 1, row 62 More...  Data post 1855108/253 Lookup PR noPR
ACCOMMODATION105/1837, 18 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 5, row 80 More...  Data post 1855108/283 Lookup PR noPR
ACORN54/1840, 78 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 6, row 1 More...  Data post 1855108/454 Lookup PR noPR
ACTIVE78/1836, 70 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 5, row 79 More...  Data post 1855108/178 Lookup PR noPR
73/1841, 37 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 6, row 2 
28/1843, 15 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 6, row 3108/688 Lookup PR noPR
AGENORIA103/1836, 70 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 18, row 38 More...  Data post 1855 
78/1840, 28 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 18, row 39108/473 Lookup PR noPR
19/1850 ? , 70 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 19, row 19108/1181 Lookup PR noPR
AGNES59/1836, 87 tons Re-registered at Yarmouth 12/1852 BT 111/29-1, p 18, row 37 More...  Data post 1855108/172 Lookup PR noPR
12/1852 previously Yarmouth 59/1836  BT 111/29-1, p 18, row 37108/1324 Lookup PR noPR
12/1852, 87 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 19, row 26108/1324 Lookup PR noPR
AILSA CRAIG71/1838, 171 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 21, row 32 More...  Data post 1855 
ALARM26/1843, 58 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 69 More...  Data post 1855108/686 Lookup PR noPR
40/1847, 28 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 5108/977 Lookup PR noPR
ALBATROSS30/1844, 176 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 70 More...  Data post 1855108/760 Lookup PR noPR
10/1849, 176 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 6108/1077 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION84/1839, 116 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 67 More...  Data post 1855108/402 Lookup PR noPR
47/1851, 81 tons Registry transferred to Wisbech 1/1855 BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 10 Data post 1855108/1284 Lookup PR noPR
60/1853 previously Cley 2/1852  BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 30108/1450 Lookup PR noPR
60/1853, 68 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 32, row 79108/1450 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT67/1842, 28 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 68 More...  Data post 1855108/636 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER16/1838, 237 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 65 More...  Data post 1855 
ALEXANDRINA55/1838, 200 tons Lost BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 66 More...  Data post 1855 
ALFRED18/1846, 35 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 71 More...  Data post 1855108/885 Lookup PR noPR
25/1849, 31 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 8108/1092 Lookup PR noPR
67/1850, 121 tons Registry transferred to Liverpool 175/1854 BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 9 Data post 1855108/1229 Lookup PR noPR
ALICE24/1849, 103 tons Registry transferred to Caernarvon 4/1856 BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 7 More...  Data post 1855108/1091 Lookup PR noPR
ALLIES70/1855, 65 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 35, row 11 More...  Data post 1855 
ALMA24/1855 ? , 40 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 34, row 37 More...  Data post 1855 
ALPHA157/1836, 24 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 28, row 64 More...  Data post 1855 
AMANDA56/1855 previously Sunderland 24/1855  BT 111/29-1, p 41, row 26 More...  Data post 1855 
56/1855, 131 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 41, row 40 
AMELIA29/1837, 94 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 39, row 53 More...  Data post 1855108/241 Lookup PR noPR
ANCHOR75/1839, 28 tons Registry transferred to Lowestoft 25/1854 BT 111/29-2, p 7, row 33 More...  Data post 1855108/395 Lookup PR noPR
ANN25/1837, 66 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 7, row 29 More...  Data post 1855 
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