Ships shown as registered at Yarmouth 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
ABEONA25/1847, 63 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 314  More...  Data post 1855108/962 Lookup PR noPR
64/1848, 69 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 315 108/1054 Lookup PR noPR
ABRAHAM60/1837, 52 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855108/253 Lookup PR noPR
ACCOMMODATION105/1837, 18 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855108/283 Lookup PR noPR
ACORN54/1840, 78 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 310  More...  Data post 1855108/454 Lookup PR noPR
ACTIVE78/1836, 70 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855108/178 Lookup PR noPR
28/1843, 15 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 312 108/688 Lookup PR noPR
AGENORIA103/1836, 70 tons Re-registered at Yarmouth 19/1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855 
78/1840, 28 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 310 108/473 Lookup PR noPR
19/1850, 70 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 317 108/1181 Lookup PR noPR
AGNES59/1836, 87 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 307  More...  Data post 1855108/172 Lookup PR noPR
ALARM40/1847, 29 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 314  More...  Data post 1855108/977 Lookup PR noPR
ALBATROSS10/1849, 176 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 316  More...  Data post 1855108/1077 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION84/1839, 116 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 309  More...  Data post 1855108/402 Lookup PR noPR
81/1849, 85 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 317 108/1148 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT67/1842, 28 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 311  More...  Data post 1855108/636 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDRINA55/1838, 200 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 309  More...  Data post 1855 
ALFRED25/1849, 31 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 316  More...  Data post 1855108/1092 Lookup PR noPR
67/1850, 121 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 318 108/1229 Lookup PR noPR
ALICE24/1849, 104 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 316  More...  Data post 1855108/1091 Lookup PR noPR
AMELIA29/1837, 94 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855108/241 Lookup PR noPR
ANCHOR75/1839, 28 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 309  More...  Data post 1855108/395 Lookup PR noPR
ANN25/1837, 67 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855 
47/1839, 98 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 309 108/375 Lookup PR noPR
44/1840, 54 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 310 108/448 Lookup PR noPR
84/1841, 41 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 311  
43/1844, 26 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 312 108/773 Lookup PR noPR
27/1848, 27 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 315 108/1017 Lookup PR noPR
49/1849, 18 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 316 108/1116 Lookup PR noPR
ANN & JANE88/1849, 49 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 317  More...  Data post 1855108/1155 Lookup PR noPR
ANN & JEMIMA17/1828, 42 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 306  More...  Data post 1855 
ANT5/1846, 59 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 313  More...  Data post 1855108/872 Lookup PR noPR
ANTELOPE91/1837, 24 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855108/275 Lookup PR noPR
ARAB83/1841, 172 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 311  More...  Data post 1855108/567 Lookup PR noPR
ARGO39/1839, 73 tons Re-registered at Yarmouth 33/1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 309  More...  Data post 1855 
33/1850, 73 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 317 108/1195 Lookup PR noPR
ARIEL136/1825, 34 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 306  More...  Data post 1855 
ARNO72/1840, 98 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 310  More...  Data post 1855108/468 Lookup PR noPR
ARTERY154/1836, 28 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 308  More...  Data post 1855108/211 Lookup PR noPR
ASTLEY56/1836, 100 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 307  More...  Data post 1855108/170 Lookup PR noPR
ATTILA47/1847, 37 tons Re-registered at Yarmouth 8/1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 314  More...  Data post 1855108/984 Lookup PR noPR
8/1850, 37 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 317 108/1170 Lookup PR noPR
BALTIC184/1824, 252 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 306  More...  Data post 1855108/12 Lookup PR noPR
BEAUFOY28/1824, 26 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 306  More...  Data post 1855 
BECCLES21/1846, 184 tons Registry transferred to Shields 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 313  More...  Data post 1855108/888 Lookup PR noPR
BEESWING7/1848, 19 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 315  More...  Data post 1855108/997 Lookup PR noPR
BELVIDERA77/1849, 82 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 317  More...  Data post 1855108/1144 Lookup PR noPR
BENJAMIN51/1838, 111 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 309  More...  Data post 1855108/316 Lookup PR noPR
BERTHA32/1838, 114 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 309  More...  Data post 1855108/307 Lookup PR noPR
BETSEY41/1832, 32 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 307  More...  Data post 1855 
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