Ships shown as registered at Waterford in BT 162 for 1850

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 Register closure Source Links Port no/PR no
ABBEY CASTLE3/1835, 17 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
ABERDEEN5/1841 Registry transferred to Liverpool BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
ACTIVE10/1847, 80 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/264 Lookup PR noPR
ADONIS11/1848, 248 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/289 Lookup PR noPR
AEOLUS6/1840 Re-registered at Waterford BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
17/1850, 117 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443 98/335 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT5/1846 Re-registered at Waterford BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/232 Lookup PR noPR
9/1850, 405 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443 98/327 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER12/1843, 165 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/177 Lookup PR noPR
ALICE6/1849, 42 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/313 Lookup PR noPR
ALPHA7/1842, 58 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/156 Lookup PR noPR
AMAZON6/1839, 357 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/101 Lookup PR noPR
ANN9/1842, 69 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/158 Lookup PR noPR
ANN KENNY3 ? /1844, 486 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/187 Lookup PR noPR
ANNA13/1830, 24 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
ANTELOPE11/1831, 19 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
APOLLO4/1849, 402 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/311 Lookup PR noPR
ARAB17/1839, 70 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/108 Lookup PR noPR
ATLAS2/1826, 45 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
BATHURST21/1839, 55 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/112 Lookup PR noPR
BESSY1/1849, 18 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/308 Lookup PR noPR
BLACKBIRD19/1848, 16 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/297 Lookup PR noPR
BLANCH11/1838, 65 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
BOLIVAR18/1843 Registry transferred to Dublin BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/183 Lookup PR noPR
BONETTA14/1832, 15 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
BRAZILLIAN11/1847, 180 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 1855 
BRIDGET14/1841 Foundered BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
CAMILLA9/1847 Re-registered at Waterford BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/263 Lookup PR noPR
20/1850, 298 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443 98/338 Lookup PR noPR
CASHMAN4/1848, 22 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/282 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE20/1847, 23 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/274 Lookup PR noPR
CHALLENGER15/1839, 151 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/107 Lookup PR noPR
3/1849, 26 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443 98/310 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLES8/1828, 16 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
CHARLOTTE7/1844, 27 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/191 Lookup PR noPR
CHICHESTER19/1845, 16 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/219 Lookup PR noPR
CITIZEN9/1849, 167 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/316 Lookup PR noPR
CLEVELAND12/1847, 107 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/266 Lookup PR noPR
CLONMEL19/1840, 91 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/129 Lookup PR noPR
CONCORDIA34/1837, 149 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/82 Lookup PR noPR
CONFIDENCE18/1846, 133 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/245 Lookup PR noPR
COQUETTE21/1848, 41 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/299 Lookup PR noPR
COUNTESS OF DURHAM16/1846, 325 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 442  More...  Data post 185598/243 Lookup PR noPR
CURRAGHMORE1/1841 Registry transferred to London BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
DASHER5/1827, 22 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
17/1848, 19 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443 98/295 Lookup PR noPR
DEVONSHIRE1/1842, 63 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 185598/151 Lookup PR noPR
DIANA8/1849, 390 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/315 Lookup PR noPR
DISPATCH10/1837 Registry transferred to Quebec BT 162/19-11, folio 441  More...  Data post 1855 
DOUBLE X12/1848, 49 tons  BT 162/19-11, folio 443  More...  Data post 185598/290 Lookup PR noPR
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