Ships shown as registered at Preston 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
ALBION1/1847, 104 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/185 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT15/1850, 59 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 210  More...  Data post 1855109/270 Lookup PR noPR
ALICE10/1824 Registry transferred to Whitehaven BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855 
26/1843, 43 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208 109/109 Lookup PR noPR
15/1844, 21 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208 109/125 Lookup PR noPR
2/1849 Registry transferred to Fleetwood BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/238 Lookup PR noPR
ALPHA17/1846, 108 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/171 Lookup PR noPR
ANN16/1841, 36 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/61 Lookup PR noPR
ANN & CATHERINE5/1843, 38 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/88 Lookup PR noPR
ARROW8/1850, 37 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 210  More...  Data post 1855109/263 Lookup PR noPR
ARTHUR29/1847 Registry transferred to Fleetwood BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/213 Lookup PR noPR
BAZEN NOZE13/1842, 24 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855 
BEE13/1849, 46 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/249 Lookup PR noPR
BEE HIVE4/1849, 63 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/240 Lookup PR noPR
BRILLIANT19/1845, 51 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/145 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA18/1841, 37 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/63 Lookup PR noPR
BRITON14/1841, 36 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/59 Lookup PR noPR
BUONEY28/1847, 39 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/212 Lookup PR noPR
BURY17/1849, 60 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/253 Lookup PR noPR
CANNADIENNE16/1849 Registry transferred to Fleetwood BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/252 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE18/1849, 49 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/254 Lookup PR noPR
CHAMBERLAIN7/1849 Lost BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/243 Lookup PR noPR
CHANCE23/1843, 45 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/106 Lookup PR noPR
CHRISTINA15/1849, 44 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/251 Lookup PR noPR
CONTENT46/1840, 95 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/37 Lookup PR noPR
COUSINS2/1850, 38 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/257 Lookup PR noPR
CUPID2/1840, 19 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855 
DELIGHT16/1844 Lost BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/126 Lookup PR noPR
DIAMOND2/1845, 40 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/128 Lookup PR noPR
DORA8/1848, 8 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/223 Lookup PR noPR
DOTTY6/1849, 45 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/242 Lookup PR noPR
DOVE10/1847, 34 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/194 Lookup PR noPR
EAGLE13/1845, 38 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/139 Lookup PR noPR
EARL GREY2/1846 Re-registered at Preston 1/1850 BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/156 Lookup PR noPR
1/1850, 53 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209 109/256 Lookup PR noPR
EBENEZER15/1847 Re-registered at Preston 3/1850 BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/199 Lookup PR noPR
3/1850, 76 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 210 109/258 Lookup PR noPR
ECLIPSE6/1843 Registry transferred to Fleetwood BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/89 Lookup PR noPR
ELEANOR13/1848 Re-registered at Preston 4/1850 BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/228 Lookup PR noPR
4/1850, 39 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 210 109/259 Lookup PR noPR
ELEPHANT14/1849, 41 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/250 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH16/1846, 40 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/170 Lookup PR noPR
2/1847 Registry transferred to Fleetwood BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/186 Lookup PR noPR
ELLEN5/1846, 62 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/159 Lookup PR noPR
8/1846, 38 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208 109/162 Lookup PR noPR
EMERALD9/1844, 43 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/119 Lookup PR noPR
EMILEE20/1846, 79 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855 
ENIGMA5/1847, 24 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/189 Lookup PR noPR
EUPHEMIA3/1848, 315 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 209  More...  Data post 1855109/218 Lookup PR noPR
EXPERIMENT7/1843, 19 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 208  More...  Data post 1855109/90 Lookup PR noPR
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