Ships shown as registered at Faversham 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
ABEONA8/1855 previously Yarmouth 63/1852  BT 111/29-1, p 2, row 42 More...  Data post 1855 
8/1855, 62 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 3, row 4 
ACTIVE24/1835, 24 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 4, row 29 More...  Data post 1855 
6/1843, 31 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 4, row 30 
2/1845, 16 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 5, row 2741/326 Lookup PR noPR
3/1845, 31 tons Broken up BT 111/29-1, p 5, row 2841/327 Lookup PR noPR
10/1850, 168 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 6, row 2141/484 Lookup PR noPR
24/1852, 30 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 6, row 58 
AGNES14/1856, 88 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 20, row 24 More...  Data post 1855 
ALARM25/1848, 10 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 29, row 37 More...  Data post 185541/449 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION28/????, 26 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 24, row 30 More...  Data post 1855 
17 ? /1838 ? , 30 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 24, row 27 
8/1845, 16 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 26, row 6341/332 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT10/1842 ? , 13 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 24, row 29 More...  Data post 1855 
ALFRED36 ? /1841 ? , 170 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 24, row 28 More...  Data post 1855 
31/1843 ? , 31 tons Registry transferred to London 596/1854 BT 111/29-1, p 24, row 31 Data post 185541/288 Lookup PR noPR
30/1854, 55 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 33, row 46 
ALICE20/1845, 17 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 26, row 64 More...  Data post 185541/344 Lookup PR noPR
9/1856, 121 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 35, row 43 
ALLAN36/1843 ? , 8 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 24, row 32 More...  Data post 185541/293 Lookup PR noPR
3/1852, 8 tons Re-registered at Faversham 35/1854 BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 16 
3/1852, 8 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 35 
35/1854 previously Faversham 3/1852  BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 16 
ALMA19/1855, 39 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 35, row 15 More...  Data post 1855 
AMELIA3/1842, 105 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 37, row 37 More...  Data post 1855 
AMITY2/1836, 30 tons Registry transferred to Rochester 36/1853 BT 111/29-1, p 37, row 36 More...  Data post 1855 
ANEMONE32/1854 previously Sunderland 156/1849  BT 111/29-2, p 10, row 6 More...  Data post 1855 
32/1854, 241 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 13, row 37 
ANN13/1833, 50 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 44, row 79 More...  Data post 1855 
29/1835  BT 111/29-1, p 44, row 80 
5/1842  BT 111/29-1, p 44, row 81 
11/1843, 52 ?  tons  BT 111/29-1, p 44, row 8241/268 Lookup PR noPR
37/1843, 33 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 1, row 141/294 Lookup PR noPR
18/1846, 13 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 4, row 37 
27/1847, 13 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 8, row 40 
24/1851, 18 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 10, row 68 
3/1853, 29 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 12, row 33 
3/1853 previously London 319/1849  BT 111/29-2, p 9, row 30 
ANN & SOPHIA3/1846, 150 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 4, row 36 More...  Data post 185541/367 Lookup PR noPR
ANNA ELIZA20/1827, 24 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 44, row 78 More...  Data post 1855 
ANNE34/1854, 119 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 13, row 39 More...  Data post 1855 
ARGUS24/1843, 51 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 20, row 37 More...  Data post 1855 
12/1845, 64 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 21, row 6641/336 Lookup PR noPR
ARIEL10/1844, 8 ?  tons  BT 111/29-2, p 20, row 38 More...  Data post 185541/306 Lookup PR noPR
ARMIN12/1853 previously Ramsgate 4/1850  BT 111/29-2, p 22, row 24 More...  Data post 1855 
12/1853, 35 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 23, row 65 
ATKIN3/1849, 268 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 30, row 52 More...  Data post 185541/455 Lookup PR noPR
ATLAS15/1838, 22 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 29, row 12 More...  Data post 1855 
AUGUSTA12/1849, 14 tons Broken up BT 111/29-2, p 33, row 55 More...  Data post 1855 
12/1849, 14 tons Re-registered at Faversham 15/1854 BT 111/29-2, p 33, row 55 
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