Ships shown as registered at Whitehaven 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
ADA17/1846, 149 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855103/567 Lookup PR noPR
ADVENTURE141/1825, 140 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855103/15 Lookup PR noPR
46/1837, 119 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295 103/207 Lookup PR noPR
AGAPHEA4/1841, 154 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855 
AGNES44/1837, 157 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/206 Lookup PR noPR
108/1837, 147 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  
ALBION13/1848, 68 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/608 Lookup PR noPR
ALCIOPE36/1835, 199 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855 
ALERT12/1841, 105 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855103/301 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER12/1846, 164 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855103/562 Lookup PR noPR
AMITY27/1839 Re-registered at Whitehaven BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855 
20/1850 Lost BT 162/19-08, folio 298 103/655 Lookup PR noPR
AMPHION52/1827, 146 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855103/43 Lookup PR noPR
ANN98/1825, 19 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855 
29/1835, 24 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  
31/1837, 117 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295 103/195 Lookup PR noPR
112/1837, 79 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  
ANN WISE2/1847, 231 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/582 Lookup PR noPR
ANTIGUA PACKET34/1838, 272 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/231 Lookup PR noPR
AREQUIPA15/1841 Re-registered at Whitehaven BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855103/304 Lookup PR noPR
22/1850, 282 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 298 103/657 Lookup PR noPR
ARGESTES5/1844, 172 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855 
ARGUS7/1838, 165 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/218 Lookup PR noPR
ARROW7/1841, 64 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855 
ASTREA14/1842, 141 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855103/331 Lookup PR noPR
ATHENA9/1840 Registry transferred to Liverpool BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/270 Lookup PR noPR
AUTUMN33/1838, 124 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/230 Lookup PR noPR
AVOCA11/1830, 254 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855 
BAHIA PACKET46/1835, 159 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855103/118 Lookup PR noPR
BARDSEA10/1848, 48 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/605 Lookup PR noPR
BARROW11/1841, 41 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855103/300 Lookup PR noPR
BEE57/1836, 90 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855103/147 Lookup PR noPR
BELL15/1849, 177 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/632 Lookup PR noPR
BELLA ISLE18/1831, 117 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855 
BELVOIR CASTLE37/1837, 119 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855 
BENGALEE7/1840, 352 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/268 Lookup PR noPR
BENJAMIN102/1837 Re-registered at Whitehaven BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855 
7/1850, 88 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 298 103/642 Lookup PR noPR
BLENG25/1841, 232 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 296  More...  Data post 1855103/313 Lookup PR noPR
BRANSTY1/1848, 98 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/596 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA18/1840 Registry transferred to Dublin 1849 BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855 
BRITISH MERCHANT2/1848, 334 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/597 Lookup PR noPR
BRITISH QUEEN6/1847, 219 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/586 Lookup PR noPR
BRITON12/1848, 91 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/607 Lookup PR noPR
BROTHERS46/1834, 133 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855103/103 Lookup PR noPR
7/1847, 134 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297 103/587 Lookup PR noPR
BRUTUS12/1849, 107 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 297  More...  Data post 1855103/629 Lookup PR noPR
CALDER32/1837, 226 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/196 Lookup PR noPR
CAMELEON48/1837, 132 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 295  More...  Data post 1855103/208 Lookup PR noPR
CAMERTON6/1831, 220 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 294  More...  Data post 1855 
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