Ships shown as registered at Weymouth 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
AHIEZER11/1843, 69 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/84 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION3/1841, 138 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/52 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER3/1848, 82 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/136 Lookup PR noPR
ANN9/1843, 31 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/82 Lookup PR noPR
1/1847, 68 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283 101/127 Lookup PR noPR
ARINA7/1846, 131 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/123 Lookup PR noPR
ASTREA3/1843 Lost BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855 
ATLAS70/1825, 109 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/2 Lookup PR noPR
BENITA10/1845, 40 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/110 Lookup PR noPR
BLESSING4/1847, 35 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/130 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA2/1845, 21 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/102 Lookup PR noPR
CADMUS7/1850, 218 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/162 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLOTTE10/1842, 29 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855 
COMET3/1846, 34 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/119 Lookup PR noPR
DORSET13/1840, 72 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/49 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZA6/1849, 11 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/151 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH12/1844, 85 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/97 Lookup PR noPR
2/1850, 121 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283 101/157 Lookup PR noPR
EMMA12/1845, 42 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/112 Lookup PR noPR
EXCEL22/1836, 135 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/21 Lookup PR noPR
FACTOR9/1849, 104 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/154 Lookup PR noPR
FANCY4/1848, 78 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/137 Lookup PR noPR
FROLIC4/1841 Re-registered at Weymouth 8/1850 BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/53 Lookup PR noPR
8/1850, 137 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283 101/163 Lookup PR noPR
GEM5/1848, 54 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/138 Lookup PR noPR
GEORGE9/1842, 113 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855 
GERALDINE15/1837, 84 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/30 Lookup PR noPR
GOSSAMER9/1848 Re-registered at Weymouth 5/1850 BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/142 Lookup PR noPR
5/1850, 35 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283 101/160 Lookup PR noPR
GRACE19/1838, 44 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/37 Lookup PR noPR
HARBINGER5/1845, 28 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/105 Lookup PR noPR
HARMONY3/1840, 98 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/42 Lookup PR noPR
HARRIET ANN3/1831, 58 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855 
HARTFORD4/1838 Registry transferred to Newcastle 1850 BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855 
HAZARD3/1849, 99 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/148 Lookup PR noPR
HEBE5/1839, 98 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/39 Lookup PR noPR
4/1845, 17 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282 101/104 Lookup PR noPR
HERO14/1845, 148 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/114 Lookup PR noPR
1/1846, 81 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282 101/117 Lookup PR noPR
HIND6/1844, 15 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/91 Lookup PR noPR
HOPE3/1844, 163 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/88 Lookup PR noPR
HUMILITY14/1836, 159 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/16 Lookup PR noPR
INO13/1845, 20 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/113 Lookup PR noPR
JANE8/1843, 75 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/81 Lookup PR noPR
JANE & WILLIAM3/1850, 132 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/158 Lookup PR noPR
JOHN MOWLEM5/1846, 166 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/121 Lookup PR noPR
JULIA10/1844, 89 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/95 Lookup PR noPR
KEZIA8/1849, 39 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/153 Lookup PR noPR
LADY4/1849, 20 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 283  More...  Data post 1855101/149 Lookup PR noPR
LADY LOUISA26/1836, 156 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 282  More...  Data post 1855101/22 Lookup PR noPR
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