Ships shown as registered at Campbeltown 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
AGNES5/1840, 26 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 17, row 3 More...  Data post 1855 
ALBION9/1854 previously Ayr 2/1853  BT 111/29-1, p 32, row 27 More...  Data post 185519/76 Lookup PR noPR
9/1854, 34 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 33, row 6519/76 Lookup PR noPR
ALEX KER4/1839, 27 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 23, row 46 More...  Data post 1855 
ARMADALE1/1841, 20 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 20, row 7 More...  Data post 1855 
BENJAMIN7/1856 previously Inverness 16/1844  BT 111/29-3, p 1, row 27 More...  Data post 1855 
7/1856, 38 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 8, row 60 
BETSEY PACKET6/1838, 18 ?  tons  BT 111/29-2, p 44, row 41 More...  Data post 185519/14 Lookup PR noPR
BLOSSOM5/1839, 23 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 11, row 15 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1847, 44 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 13, row 27 
CALEDONIA5/1853 previously Port Glasgow 4/1848  BT 111/29-4, p 3, row 43 More...  Data post 185519/65 Lookup PR noPR
5/1853, 47 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 6, row 5919/65 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE & ANN5/1854, 25 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 7, row 9 More...  Data post 185519/72 Lookup PR noPR
CECILIA1/1843, 16 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 10, row 14 More...  Data post 1855 
CELT2/1848, 153 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 11, row 44 More...  Data post 185519/46 Lookup PR noPR
CHAMELEON2/1845, 12 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 17, row 15 More...  Data post 185519/37 Lookup PR noPR
CHRISTIAN & CATHERINE2/1853 previously Belfast 27/1847  BT 111/29-4, p 17, row 9 More...  Data post 185519/62 Lookup PR noPR
2/1853, 17 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 22, row 7319/62 Lookup PR noPR
DEVA6/1855, 30 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 28, row 16 More...  Data post 1855 
DOUART CASTLE2/1849, 21 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 36, row 63 More...  Data post 185519/50 Lookup PR noPR
DUKE OF CORNWALL5/1842, 105 tons  BT 111/18-4, p 85, row 2 More...  Data post 185519/31 Lookup PR noPR
5/1842, 105 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 42, row 1119/31 Lookup PR noPR
DUKE OF LANCASTER3/1827, 91 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 42, row 10 More...  Data post 1855 
EBENEZER4/1855, 66 tons  BT 111/19-1, p 19, row 1 More...  Data post 1855 
ECLIPSE2/1850, 47 tons  BT 111/19-1, p 23, row 9 More...  Data post 185519/52 Lookup PR noPR
FAVOURITE2/1851, 50 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 34, row 73 More...  Data post 185519/55 Lookup PR noPR
FORTUNA2/1844  BT 111/30-2, p 14, row 16 More...  Data post 1855 
FOX7/1854 previously Inverness 20/1834  BT 111/30-2, p 15, row 13 More...  Data post 185519/74 Lookup PR noPR
7/1854, 19 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 18, row 4019/74 Lookup PR noPR
GEORGE3/1852, 35 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 47, row 74 More...  Data post 185519/59 Lookup PR noPR
3/1855 previously Port Glasgow 3/1854  BT 111/30-2, p 49, row 9 
3/1855, 47 tons Re-registered at Campbeltown 1/1856 BT 111/30-2, p 49, row 52 
1/1856 previously Campbeltown 3/1855  BT 111/30-2, p 49, row 52 
1/1856, 47 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 50, row 12 
GLEANER2/1842, 515 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 56, row 18 More...  Data post 185519/28 Lookup PR noPR
GRACE DARLING3/1844  BT 111/30-3, p 3, row 14 More...  Data post 1855 
HOPE3/1842, 31 tons Registry transferred to Greenock 21/1856 BT 111/30-3, p 40, row 3 More...  Data post 185519/29 Lookup PR noPR
4/1854 previously Lancaster 24/1837  BT 111/30-3, p 41, row 1519/71 Lookup PR noPR
4/1854, 66 tons Re-registered at Campbeltown 4/1856 BT 111/30-3, p 45, row 7019/71 Lookup PR noPR
4/1856 previously Campbeltown 4/1854  BT 111/30-3, p 45, row 70 
4/1856, 56 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 46, row 30 
4/1856, 56 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 46, row 32 
INDUSTRY3/1846, 85 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 55, row 77 More...  Data post 185519/41 Lookup PR noPR
INVERNEIL1/1855, 20 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 60, row 6 More...  Data post 1855 
1/1855, 20 tons  BT 111/31-1, p 3, row 50 
INVERNIEL1/1855 previously Ayr 3/1850  BT 111/30-3, p 57, row 39 More...  Data post 1855 
JANET6/1854 previously Greenock 15/1851  BT 111/30-4, p 23, row 76 More...  Data post 185519/73 Lookup PR noPR
6/1854, 16 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 29, row 1119/73 Lookup PR noPR
JEAN4/1840, 22 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 32, row 26 More...  Data post 1855 
7/1840, 25 tons Registry transferred to Irvine 3/1854 BT 111/30-4, p 32, row 27 Data post 1855 
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