Ships shown as registered at Drogheda 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
ADELAIDE2/1836, 85 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 8, row 27 More...  Data post 185534/13 Lookup PR noPR
ALPINE4/1855, 103 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 35, row 14 More...  Data post 1855 
ANNA1/1839, 99 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 44, row 52 More...  Data post 185534/37 Lookup PR noPR
BELLE4/1841, 80 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 45, row 39 More...  Data post 1855 
BOYNE8/1836, 126 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 16, row 14 More...  Data post 185534/18 Lookup PR noPR
BRIAN BOIROIMHE3/1846, 363 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 24, row 54 More...  Data post 185534/53 Lookup PR noPR
CALEDONIA16/1836, 107 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 41, row 17 More...  Data post 185534/24 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE5/1846, 126 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 42, row 66 More...  Data post 185534/55 Lookup PR noPR
COMMERCE3/1837, 134 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 34, row 11 More...  Data post 185534/30 Lookup PR noPR
CYNTHIA3/1852, 132 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 14, row 72 More...  Data post 1855 
DART3/1845, 88 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 18, row 53 More...  Data post 185534/49 Lookup PR noPR
DUKE OF SUSSEX7/1848, 25 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 44, row 59 More...  Data post 185534/68 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH21/1836, 78 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 10, row 72 More...  Data post 185534/28 Lookup PR noPR
ENDEAVOUR7/1836, 104 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 38, row 33 More...  Data post 185534/17 Lookup PR noPR
1/1852, 104 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 42, row 34 
ERIN2/1841, 130 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 46, row 33 More...  Data post 185534/42 Lookup PR noPR
FAIR TRADER2/1829, 200 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 2, row 72 More...  Data post 1855 
FAUGH A BALLAGH2/1845, 386 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 60, row 41 More...  Data post 185534/48 Lookup PR noPR
FLORA3/1853 previously Liverpool 330/1850  BT 111/30-2, p 11, row 2 More...  Data post 1855 
3/1853, 117 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 11, row 80 
FRUITERER2/1856 previously Dundee 49/1853  BT 111/30-2, p 28, row 26 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1856, 62 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 29, row 13 
GEM5/1853 previously Ayr 9/1847  BT 111/30-2, p 46, row 29 More...  Data post 1855 
5/1853, 96 tons Re-registered at Drogheda 3/1854 BT 111/30-2, p 48, row 80 
3/1854 previously Drogheda 5/1853  BT 111/30-2, p 48, row 80 
GEORGE HARPUR  ? 4/1837, 107 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 42, row 50 More...  Data post 185534/31 Lookup PR noPR
GIPSEY3/1851 previously Dublin 9/1843  BT 111/30-2, p 52, row 8 More...  Data post 185534/77 Lookup PR noPR
3/1851, 68 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 53, row 434/77 Lookup PR noPR
GRANA UILL4/1835, 245 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 3, row 25 More...  Data post 1855 
GREEN ISLE4/1833, 213 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 3, row 24 More...  Data post 1855 
HARMONY19/1836, 71 tons Re-registered at Drogheda 1/1855 BT 111/30-3, p 11, row 65 More...  Data post 185534/26 Lookup PR noPR
19/1836, 71 tons Re-registered at Drogheda 4/1854 BT 111/30-3, p 11, row 6534/26 Lookup PR noPR
4/1854 previously Drogheda 19/1836  BT 111/30-3, p 11, row 65 
1/1855 previously Drogheda 19/1836  BT 111/30-3, p 11, row 65 
1/1855, 71 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 20, row 54 
HARRIET2/1838, 76 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 11, row 66 More...  Data post 1855 
HENRY & ANN??/1855 previously Dublin 17/1854  BT 111/30-3, p 33, row 49 More...  Data post 1855 
HENRY ISMAY5/1854 previously Liverpool 192/1850  BT 111/30-3, p 30, row 26 More...  Data post 1855 
5/1854, 131 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 33, row 70 
HENRY SMITH5/1836, 89 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 23, row 6 More...  Data post 1855 
3/1847, 39 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 29, row 4434/61 Lookup PR noPR
HOPE7/1855, 92 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 46, row 22 More...  Data post 1855 
INDEFATIGABLE2/1855 previously Liverpool 295/1836  BT 111/30-3, p 55, row 22 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1855, 138 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 60, row 3 
IRISHMAN5/1834, 232 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 2, row 15 More...  Data post 1855 
1/1848, 232 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 3, row 3134/62 Lookup PR noPR
ISABELLA8/1846, 126 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 6, row 63 More...  Data post 185534/58 Lookup PR noPR
3/1848, 182 tons Re-registered at Drogheda 2/1853 BT 111/30-4, p 8, row 1234/64 Lookup PR noPR
2/1853 previously Drogheda 3/1848  BT 111/30-4, p 8, row 12 
JAMES DUNLOP2/1852, 140 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 26, row 15 More...  Data post 1855 
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