Ships shown as registered at Sligo 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
ADELAIDE2/1844  BT 111/29-1, p 10, row 19 More...  Data post 1855 
1/1845, 99 tons Registry transferred to Liverpool 164/1855 BT 111/29-1, p 10, row 20 Data post 1855 
AMELIA1/1849, 28 tons Registry transferred to Glasgow 151/1854 BT 111/29-1, p 40, row 30 More...  Data post 185589/67 Lookup PR noPR
ANN3/1837, 162 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 6, row 24 More...  Data post 185589/6 Lookup PR noPR
AUGUSTA3/1852, 599 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 34, row 16 More...  Data post 1855 
BACALIEU3/1855, 97 tons  BT 111/29-2, p 41, row 54 More...  Data post 1855 
BLANCH2/1835, 114 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 12, row 70 More...  Data post 185589/2 Lookup PR noPR
BRENDA2/1852, 29 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 31, row 5 More...  Data post 1855 
BRITISH QUEEN2/1847, 534 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 26, row 60 More...  Data post 185589/55 Lookup PR noPR
BROOMIELAW8/1847, 83 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 30, row 1 More...  Data post 185589/61 Lookup PR noPR
CALIFORNIA PACKET1/1850, 292 tons Lost BT 111/29-4, p 3, row 71 More...  Data post 185589/72 Lookup PR noPR
CAROLINE10/1838, 114 tons  BT 111/29-3, p 44, row 32 More...  Data post 1855 
CHARLOTTE4/1849, 74 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 21, row 16 More...  Data post 185589/70 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLOTTE ATKINSON9/1838, 18 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 18, row 46 More...  Data post 1855 
CHERUB3/1854 previously Hull 66/1842  BT 111/29-4, p 15, row 34 More...  Data post 1855 
3/1854, 93 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 23, row 50 
CHRISTIAN6/1853 previously Wick 7/1850  BT 111/29-4, p 21, row 27 More...  Data post 1855 
6/1853, 72 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 23, row 11 
CHRISTINA2/1853 previously Fleetwood 2/1851  BT 111/29-4, p 22, row 29 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1853, 43 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 23, row 6 
COLONIST2/1846, 140 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 39, row 35 More...  Data post 1855 
COMMERCE4/1843, 44 tons  BT 111/29-4, p 39, row 34 More...  Data post 1855 
COUNTESS OF ARRAN9/1840, 317 tons Registry transferred to Liverpool 392/1854 BT 111/29-4, p 39, row 33 More...  Data post 185589/24 Lookup PR noPR
CYGNET3/1845, 127 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 14, row 37 More...  Data post 1855 
3/1846, 127 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 14, row 38 
DAUNTLESS2/1855, 88 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 22, row 36 More...  Data post 1855 
DOLPHIN4/1853 previously Liverpool 53/1849  BT 111/29-5, p 36, row 81 More...  Data post 1855 
4/1853, 67 tons Lost BT 111/29-5, p 38, row 27 
DROMAHAIR6/1841, 376 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 41, row 2 More...  Data post 1855 
4/1850, 376 tons  BT 111/29-5, p 41, row 2689/75 Lookup PR noPR
EFFORT6/1847, 50 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 6, row 24 More...  Data post 185589/59 Lookup PR noPR
EL TEIDE7/1854 previously Belfast 36/1853  BT 111/30-1, p 26, row 59 More...  Data post 1855 
EL TIEDE7/1854, 92 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 28, row 31 More...  Data post 1855 
ELIZABETH BROWN3/1849, 418 tons  BT 111/30-1, p 23, row 57 More...  Data post 185589/69 Lookup PR noPR
HENRY VOLANT2/1840, 93 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 27, row 62 More...  Data post 1855 
IMPERIAL3/1847, 205 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 53, row 24 More...  Data post 185589/56 Lookup PR noPR
INDUSTRY3/1839, 290 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 56, row 71 More...  Data post 1855 
2/1849, 385 tons  BT 111/30-3, p 58, row 5189/68 Lookup PR noPR
ISLAY3/1840, 283 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 7, row 28 More...  Data post 1855 
JANE1/1840, 115 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 21, row 12 More...  Data post 1855 
JANE BLAIN2/1845, 359 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 21, row 13 More...  Data post 1855 
JANET6/1854, 37 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 29, row 22 More...  Data post 1855 
JEAN5/1852 ? , 72 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 36, row 41 More...  Data post 1855 
JESSIE5/1846, 350 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 34, row 16 More...  Data post 185589/51 Lookup PR noPR
JOHN & ELIZA6/1839, 87 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 47, row 39 More...  Data post 1855 
JOHN & MARY3/1838, 23 tons  BT 111/30-4, p 47, row 38 More...  Data post 1855 
JULIA5/1853 previously Galway 1/1841  BT 111/31-1, p 1, row 16 More...  Data post 1855 
5/1853, 22 tons  BT 111/31-1, p 3, row 36 
LADY DOMBRAIN7/1846, 113 tons  BT 111/31-1, p 24, row 2 More...  Data post 185589/53 Lookup PR noPR
LANCASHIRE LASS1/1853 previously Lancaster 3/1847  BT 111/31-1, p 23, row 14 More...  Data post 1855 
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