Ships shown as registered at Whitby 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
ABBOTSFORD8/1836, 170 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 284  More...  Data post 1855104/35 Lookup PR noPR
ABERDEENSHIRE48/1838, 240 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855104/138 Lookup PR noPR
ACHILLES19/1850, 276 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 292  More...  Data post 1855104/705 Lookup PR noPR
ACTIVE14/1849, 149 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 290  More...  Data post 1855104/636 Lookup PR noPR
ADVENTURE8/1838, 200 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855104/117 Lookup PR noPR
AERIAL20/1841, 281 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  More...  Data post 1855104/257 Lookup PR noPR
AID69/1837, 259 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855104/110 Lookup PR noPR
ALCHYMIST71/1840, 275 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  More...  Data post 1855104/232 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT23/1841, 50 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  More...  Data post 1855104/259 Lookup PR noPR
27/1848, 89 tons  BT 162/19-07/08, folio 289 104/569 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER54/1849, 230 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 291  More...  Data post 1855104/676 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDRINA3/1843 Re-registered at Whitby 6/1850 BT 162/19-07, folio 287  More...  Data post 1855104/319 Lookup PR noPR
6/1850, 151 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 291 104/692 Lookup PR noPR
ALICE20/1850, 171 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 292  More...  Data post 1855104/706 Lookup PR noPR
ALPHA81/1840, 263 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  More...  Data post 1855 
AMELIA23/1848, 237 tons  BT 162/19-07/08, folio 289  More...  Data post 1855104/565 Lookup PR noPR
AMI8/1845, 182 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 287  More...  Data post 1855104/410 Lookup PR noPR
AMY20/1848, 218 tons  BT 162/19-07/08, folio 289  More...  Data post 1855104/562 Lookup PR noPR
ANN33/1836, 267 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 284  More...  Data post 1855104/44 Lookup PR noPR
25/1843, 101 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 287 104/341 Lookup PR noPR
38/1847, 111 tons  BT 162/19-07/08, folio 289 104/532 Lookup PR noPR
10/1849, 118 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 290 104/632 Lookup PR noPR
ANN CLARK1/1850, 213 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 291  More...  Data post 1855104/687 Lookup PR noPR
ANN MACKAY6/1848, 47 tons  BT 162/19-07/08, folio 289  More...  Data post 1855104/548 Lookup PR noPR
ANT36/1850, 233 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 292  More...  Data post 1855104/722 Lookup PR noPR
ARAB63/1838, 166 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855104/145 Lookup PR noPR
ARABELLA5/1840 Lost 1850 BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855 
ARETA24/1850 Re-registered at Whitby 35/1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 292  More...  Data post 1855104/710 Lookup PR noPR
35/1850, 210 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 292 104/721 Lookup PR noPR
ARGO31/1838, 146 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855104/130 Lookup PR noPR
ARIADNE36/1841, 171 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  More...  Data post 1855104/270 Lookup PR noPR
ARK11/1837, 162 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 284  More...  Data post 1855104/89 Lookup PR noPR
ASTREA69/1840, 86 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  More...  Data post 1855104/230 Lookup PR noPR
ATTALIAH53/1841, 213 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  More...  Data post 1855104/284 Lookup PR noPR
AYTON16/1844, 133 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 287  More...  Data post 1855104/377 Lookup PR noPR
BARBARA53/1839, 66 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855104/178 Lookup PR noPR
BEATITUDE12/1839, 192 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 285  More...  Data post 1855104/155 Lookup PR noPR
BEATRIX24/1846, 174 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 288  More...  Data post 1855104/462 Lookup PR noPR
BEDALE22/1843, 228 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 287  More...  Data post 1855104/338 Lookup PR noPR
BEE39/1850, 230 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 292  More...  Data post 1855104/725 Lookup PR noPR
BEES WING29/1849, 163 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 290  More...  Data post 1855104/651 Lookup PR noPR
BEESWING43/1847, 155 tons  BT 162/19-07/08, folio 289  More...  Data post 1855104/537 Lookup PR noPR
BELLE3/1848, 247 tons  BT 162/19-07/08, folio 289  More...  Data post 1855104/545 Lookup PR noPR
BETHELL21/1849, 79 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 290  More...  Data post 1855104/643 Lookup PR noPR
BETSEY87/1825, 57 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 284  More...  Data post 1855 
15/1839 Re-registered at Whitby 5/1850 BT 162/19-07, folio 285  
14/1842, 140 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 286  
5/1850, 64 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 291 104/691 Lookup PR noPR
9/1850, 100 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 291 104/695 Lookup PR noPR
BILLY62/1824, 137 tons  BT 162/19-07, folio 284  More...  Data post 1855104/1 Lookup PR noPR
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