Ships shown as registered at Ayr 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
AGNES2/1838, 39 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 16, row 13 More...  Data post 18555/15 Lookup PR noPR
AGNES KELLY2/1846, 73 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 17, row 69 More...  Data post 18555/54 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION2/1853 previously London 116/1852  BT 111/29-1, p 31, row 53 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1853, 34 tons Registry transferred to Campbeltown 9/1854 BT 111/29-1, p 32, row 27 Data post 1855 
ALEXANDER1/1837, 25 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 23, row 15 More...  Data post 1855 
ALEXANDER WISE1/1839, 299 tons Registry transferred to Glasgow 6/1854 BT 111/29-1, p 23, row 16 More...  Data post 18555/17 Lookup PR noPR
ALMA1/1855, 94 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 34, row 18 More...  Data post 1855 
AMITY6/1839, 93 tons Registry transferred to Dublin 13/1845 BT 111/29-1, p 37, row 6 More...  Data post 18555/20 Lookup PR noPR
ANN14/1836, 72 tons Registry transferred to Liverpool 57/1851 BT 111/29-1, p 43, row 19 More...  Data post 1855 
3/1840, 43 tons Registry transferred to Belfast 15/1847 BT 111/29-1, p 43, row 20 Data post 1855 
ANN COOK3/1848, 113 tons Registry transferred to Irvine 13/1852 BT 111/29-2, p 7, row 57 More...  Data post 18555/73 Lookup PR noPR
ARRAN MAID2/1855 previously Irvine 10/1853  BT 111/29-2, p 23, row 64 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1855, 40 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 24, row 52 
AYRSHIRE LASS2/1849 ? , 69 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 37, row 15 More...  Data post 18555/80 Lookup PR noPR
BETHEA1/1844, 119 tons Registry transferred to Belfast 45/1851 BT 111/29-2, p 44, row 9 More...  Data post 18555/41 Lookup PR noPR
BOOMERANG2/1852, 99 tons Sold abroad BT 111/29-3, p 18, row 35 More...  Data post 1855 
BRUCE1/1848, 50 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 27, row 76 More...  Data post 18555/71 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE6/1846, 78 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 42, row 31 More...  Data post 18555/58 Lookup PR noPR
CECILIA1/1851, 99 tons Registry transferred to Whitehaven 12/1854 BT 111/29-4, p 11, row 38 More...  Data post 18555/93 Lookup PR noPR
COILA4/1845, 108 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 37, row 9 More...  Data post 18555/51 Lookup PR noPR
6/1852  BT 111/29-4, p 40, row 79 
COLLINGWOOD3/1839, 283 tons Lost BT 111/29-4, p 33, row 15 More...  Data post 18555/18 Lookup PR noPR
3/1839, 283 tons Re-registered at Ayr 3/1853 BT 111/29-4, p 33, row 155/18 Lookup PR noPR
3/1853 previously Ayr 3/1839  BT 111/29-4, p 33, row 15 
COMMERCE4/1840, 124 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 33, row 16 More...  Data post 1855 
7/1846, 124 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 37, row 105/59 Lookup PR noPR
CULZEAN CASTLE2/1844  BT 111/29-5, p 12, row 1 More...  Data post 18555/42 Lookup PR noPR
2 ? /1845, 243 tons Registry transferred to Belfast 95/1846 BT 111/29-5, p 12, row 32 Data post 18555/49 Lookup PR noPR
DUNASKIN3/1854, 122 tons  BT 111/18-4, p 92, row 3 More...  Data post 1855 
3/1854, 122 tons  BT 111/18-4, p 95, row 8 
DUNBAR PACKET2/1842, 26 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 42, row 5 More...  Data post 1855 
EARL GREY4/1849, 22 tons  BT 111/19-1, p 10, row 9 More...  Data post 18555/82 Lookup PR noPR
EARL OF CARRICK7/1855, 145 tons  BT 111/19-1, p 7, row 8 More...  Data post 1855 
EGLINTOUN5/1839, 72 tons Re-registered at Ayr 10/1853 BT 111/30-1, p 7, row 2 More...  Data post 18555/19 Lookup PR noPR
5/1839, 72 tons Re-registered at Ayr 12/1853 BT 111/30-1, p 7, row 25/19 Lookup PR noPR
10/1853 previously Ayr 5/1839  BT 111/30-1, p 7, row 2 
12/1853 previously Ayr 5/1839  BT 111/30-1, p 7, row 2 
ELIZA2/1837, 307 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 8, row 22 More...  Data post 1855 
5/1846, 129 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 14, row 715/57 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH6/1841, 52 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 8, row 24 More...  Data post 18555/30 Lookup PR noPR
4/1846, 25 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 14, row 705/56 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH & MARY3/1841, 53 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 8, row 23 More...  Data post 18555/28 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH MCCLURE5/1848, 74 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 20, row 29 More...  Data post 18555/75 Lookup PR noPR
ENTERPRISE9/1853 previously Port Glasgow 1/1851  BT 111/30-1, p 41, row 77 More...  Data post 1855 
9/1853, 18 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 42, row 55 
EUPHEMIA6/1853, 173 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 53, row 2 More...  Data post 1855 
F M C1/1845, 73 tons Registry transferred to Liverpool 41/1852 BT 111/30-2, p 14, row 1 More...  Data post 18555/48 Lookup PR noPR
FAIRLIE & JANE11/1853, 56 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 36, row 44 More...  Data post 1855 
11/1853, 56 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 36, row 50 
FAIRY6/1847, 54 tons  BT 111/30-2, p 32, row 56 More...  Data post 18555/67 Lookup PR noPR
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