Ships shown as registered at Wells 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
ALBION3/1846, 69 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/496 Lookup PR noPR
ALFRED6/1836, 70 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
AQUILA3/1841, 10 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
BETSEY4/1842, 13 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
BROTHERS33/1825, 12 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
BUOY YACHT1/1842, 73 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/458 Lookup PR noPR
CAROLINE11/1845, 127 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/492 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLOTTE3/1844 Re-registered at Wells 15/1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/474 Lookup PR noPR
COKE2/1846, 42 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/495 Lookup PR noPR
DESPATCH9/1841, 55 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
ELLEN1/1845, 91 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/482 Lookup PR noPR
ENDEAVOUR3/1843, 68 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/464 Lookup PR noPR
FRIENDS6/1841, 36 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
9/1844, 10 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  
GEORGE & HANNAH3/1837, 13 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
GLEANER7/1844, 71 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/478 Lookup PR noPR
GREYHOUND8/1841, 13 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
HANNAH4/1841, 46 tons Re-registered at Wells 4/1849 BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
HUNTSMAN9/1845, 22 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/490 Lookup PR noPR
INDUSTRY10/1838, 82 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/455 Lookup PR noPR
JULIA8/1843, 79 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/469 Lookup PR noPR
LADY ANNE2/1844, 110 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/473 Lookup PR noPR
LITTLE HELEN12/1845, 79 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/493 Lookup PR noPR
LORD BYRON2/1840, 109 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
MARTHA1/1837, 13 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
MARY8/1844, 71 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/479 Lookup PR noPR
MARY ANN7/1836, 36 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
8/1838, 69 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56 99/434 Lookup PR noPR
NELSON26/1836, 12 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
OVERY PACKET6/1839, 63 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
QUEEN VICTORIA4/1838, 7 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
ROBERT & CATHERINE6/1837, 75 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
ROBERT & HENRY4/1843, 11 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/465 Lookup PR noPR
ROSA4/1832, 22 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
ROVER7/1830, 12 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
2/1841, 11 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  
SALLY5/1846, 15 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/498 Lookup PR noPR
SARAH8/1845, 78 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/489 Lookup PR noPR
SEA FLOWER6/1843, 13 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/467 Lookup PR noPR
10/1844, 50 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  
STAG9/1843, 88 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/470 Lookup PR noPR
THOMAS & CHRISTIANA2/1826, 13 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 55  More...  Data post 1855 
THOMAS & HENRY5/1843, 12 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/466 Lookup PR noPR
TWO BROTHERS6/1842, 91 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/461 Lookup PR noPR
7/1846, 36 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56 99/500 Lookup PR noPR
TWO BROTHERS & FRIENDS6/1844, 10 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/477 Lookup PR noPR
TWO SISTERS11/1838, 42 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 1855 
6/1846, 40 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56 99/499 Lookup PR noPR
WHIM5/1845, 65 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/486 Lookup PR noPR
WILLIAM & CHARLES2/1845, 8 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 56  More...  Data post 185599/483 Lookup PR noPR
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