Ships shown as registered at Borrowstounness 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
ACHIEVER39/1836, 86 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 4, row 12 More...  Data post 1855 
AGENORIA48/1836, 37 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 16, row 25 More...  Data post 1855 
AGNES14/1840, 16 tons Broken up BT 111/29-1, p 16, row 26 More...  Data post 1855 
AID5/1848, 33 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 21, row 35 More...  Data post 185513/159 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT25/1836, 25 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 23, row 38 More...  Data post 1855 
6/1845 ? , 28 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 26, row 3913/132 Lookup PR noPR
ALFRED6/1836, 321 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 23, row 37 More...  Data post 1855 
ANDREW WILSON34/1836, 77 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 43, row 63 More...  Data post 1855 
7/1850, 76 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 7, row 7913/179 Lookup PR noPR
ANN3/1840, 26 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 43, row 64 More...  Data post 1855 
ANNE1/1850, 121 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 7, row 78 More...  Data post 185513/173 Lookup PR noPR
ANNIE2/1841, 34 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 43, row 65 More...  Data post 1855 
ARAB2/1837, 83 tons Lost BT 111/29-2, p 20, row 2 More...  Data post 1855 
ARCHIEVE1/1845, 86 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 21, row 52 More...  Data post 185513/127 Lookup PR noPR
BELLE5/1840, 95 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 44, row 32 More...  Data post 1855 
BETSEY3/1833, 221 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 44, row 30 More...  Data post 1855 
6/1840, 45 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 44, row 33 
4/1847, 56 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 2, row 5513/146 Lookup PR noPR
BETSEYS3/1844, 221 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 44, row 34 More...  Data post 1855 
8/1847, 91 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 42, row 2213/150 Lookup PR noPR
BETTY40/1836, 52 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 44, row 31 More...  Data post 185513/48 Lookup PR noPR
BLAIR ADAM13/1837, 60 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 11, row 9 More...  Data post 1855 
BLOSSOM2/1844  BT 111/29-3, p 11, row 10 More...  Data post 1855 
BRITANNIA8/1824  BT 111/29-3, p 20, row 39 More...  Data post 1855 
BROTHERS3/1825  BT 111/29-3, p 20, row 40 More...  Data post 1855 
4/1839  BT 111/29-3, p 20, row 41 
7/1843  BT 111/29-3, p 20, row 42 
5/1846, 30 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 24, row 4413/139 Lookup PR noPR
CARR ROCK6/1838, 17 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 40, row 45 More...  Data post 1855 
CATHERINA9/1840, 194 tons Registry transferred to London 441/1855 BT 111/29-3, p 40, row 46 More...  Data post 185513/90 Lookup PR noPR
CHRISTIAN & MARGARET45/1836, 60 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 14, row 25 More...  Data post 185513/53 Lookup PR noPR
CLIO49/1836, 55 tons Registry transferred to Kirkcaldy 3/1856 BT 111/29-4, p 28, row 10 More...  Data post 185513/56 Lookup PR noPR
CLUTHA4/1853, 154 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 31, row 28 More...  Data post 1855 
COMELY2/1856, 100 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 6, row 13 More...  Data post 1855 
CONCORDIA6/1852, 77 tons Lost BT 111/29-5, p 1, row 13 More...  Data post 1855 
CONQUEST11/1839, 170 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 33, row 44 More...  Data post 185513/80 Lookup PR noPR
3/1852, 169 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 1, row 12 
CRESCENT12/1847  BT 111/29-5, p 8, row 80 More...  Data post 185513/154 Lookup PR noPR
CRISPIN1/1841, 114 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 8, row 3 More...  Data post 1855 
DART7/1840, 63 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 17, row 15 More...  Data post 1855 
1/1846, 63 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 18, row 4213/135 Lookup PR noPR
DAVIDS38/1836, 38 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 17, row 14 More...  Data post 1855 
EAGLE6/1850, 142 tons Registry transferred to Aberdeen 1/1857 BT 111/19-1, p 1, row 29 More...  Data post 185513/178 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZA5/1853 previously Kirkwall 18/1836  BT 111/30-1, p 12, row 49 More...  Data post 1855 
5/1853, 62 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 27, row 1 
ELIZA MORE1/1837, 121 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 9, row 50 More...  Data post 1855 
ELIZABETH4/1840, 14 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 9, row 52 More...  Data post 1855 
4/1843, 47 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 9, row 5313/118 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH & MARY1/1856, 60 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 30, row 24 More...  Data post 1855 
ELIZABETH REID11/1849, 93 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 20, row 52 More...  Data post 185513/171 Lookup PR noPR
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