Ships shown as registered at Ramsgate 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
ADOLPHUS4/1845, 30 tons Registry transferred to Hull 47/1855 BT 111/29-1, p 10, row 10 More...  Data post 185582/168 Lookup PR noPR
AGENORIA3/1840, 38 tons Re-registered at Ramsgate 12/1847 BT 111/29-1, p 18, row 18 More...  Data post 1855 
12/1847 previously Ramsgate 3/1840  BT 111/29-1, p 18, row 1882/238 Lookup PR noPR
12/1847, 37 tons Registry transferred to Scarborough 10/1855 BT 111/29-1, p 18, row 19 Data post 185582/238 Lookup PR noPR
ALARM22/1842, 25 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 27, row 69 More...  Data post 1855 
ALBION19/1845, 24 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 27, row 71 More...  Data post 1855 
ALEXANDER ADAM5/1843, 85 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 27, row 70 More...  Data post 1855 
31/1847, 113 tons  BT 111/29-1, p 30, row 5082/257 Lookup PR noPR
ANN17/1843, 27 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 6, row 1 More...  Data post 1855 
16/1847, 26 tons Re-registered at Ramsgate 13/1853 BT 111/29-2, p 6, row 382/242 Lookup PR noPR
13/1853 previously Ramsgate 16/1847  BT 111/29-2, p 6, row 3 
ANN & LOUISA2/1846, 29 tons Registry transferred to Hull 58/1853 BT 111/29-2, p 6, row 2 More...  Data post 185582/202 Lookup PR noPR
ANNIE DERING12/1853, 127 tons Re-registered at Ramsgate 20/1854 BT 111/29-2, p 12, row 60 More...  Data post 1855 
20/1854 previously Ramsgate 12/1853  BT 111/29-2, p 12, row 60 
ARIEL4/1853 previously Leith 4/1847  BT 111/29-2, p 21, row 79 More...  Data post 1855 
4/1853, 23 tons Registry transferred to Greenock 37/1854 BT 111/29-2, p 23, row 56 Data post 1855 
ARMIN4/1850, 35 tons Registry transferred to Faversham 12/1853 BT 111/29-2, p 22, row 24 More...  Data post 185582/307 Lookup PR noPR
BALFOUR4/1849, 68 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 40, row 29 More...  Data post 185582/294 Lookup PR noPR
BETHEL27/1841, 33 tons Lost BT 111/29-3, p 3, row 74 More...  Data post 1855 
BETSEY8/1831, 23 tons Registry transferred to Rochester 33/1854 BT 111/29-3, p 3, row 73 More...  Data post 1855 
BOMBAY25/1836, 48 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 17, row 42 More...  Data post 1855 
26/1848, 47 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 18, row 2682/284 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA17/1825, 72 tons Lost BT 111/29-3, p 26, row 27 More...  Data post 1855 
5/1845, 25 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 26, row 31 
12/1848, 25 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 29, row 6082/270 Lookup PR noPR
BRITISH QUEEN14/1845, 74 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 26, row 32 More...  Data post 185582/178 Lookup PR noPR
BRITISH SYSTEM12/1833, 25 tons Broken up BT 111/29-3, p 26, row 28 More...  Data post 1855 
BRITON24/1841, 24 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 26, row 29 More...  Data post 1855 
BROTHERS11/1842, 63 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 26, row 30 More...  Data post 1855 
BUFFALO GIRL25/1846, 20 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 35, row 48 More...  Data post 1855 
4/1852 ? , 20 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 36, row 14 
CAROLINE3/1841, 28 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 44, row 13 More...  Data post 1855 
25/1845, 34 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 44, row 14 
6/1849, 27 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 3, row 4682/296 Lookup PR noPR
3/1852, 17 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 4, row 27 
3/1852, 17 tons Registry transferred to Lowestoft 22/1855 BT 111/29-4, p 5, row 9 Data post 1855 
3/1852, 18 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 8, row 6 
CECILIA3/1848, 35 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 11, row 71 More...  Data post 1855 
CERES7/1851, 30 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 11, row 72 More...  Data post 1855 
CHAMPION20/1853, 23 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 23, row 10 More...  Data post 1855 
CHARLOTTE6/1854, 152 tons Re-registered at Ramsgate 10/1854 BT 111/29-4, p 23, row 28 More...  Data post 1855 
10/1854 previously Ramsgate 6/1854  BT 111/29-4, p 23, row 28 
CHARLOTTE ANN19/1848, 21 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 20, row 77 More...  Data post 185582/277 Lookup PR noPR
12/1852, 21 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 22, row 11 
COMET15/1844, 91 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 39, row 10 More...  Data post 1855 
23/1846, 9 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 39, row 1182/223 Lookup PR noPR
COMMERCE2/1855 previously Whitby 41/1836  BT 111/29-4, p 40, row 30 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1855, 82 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 5, row 11 
CONCORD17/1841, 146 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 39, row 8 More...  Data post 1855 
CONQUEROR16/1843, 26 tons Registry transferred to Hull 37/1853 BT 111/29-4, p 39, row 9 More...  Data post 1855 
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