Ships shown as registered at Yarmouth, NS 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
ABRAM THORNE4/1842, 63 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
ACADIA35/1844 Registry transferred to Cork 1846 BT 162/20-4, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
ACADIAN62/1847, 368 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 157  More...  Data post 1855 
78/1847, 59 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 157  
ACTIVE55/1846, 16 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
36/1848, 37 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 158  
31/1850, 83 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 160  
ACTRESS64/1849, 586 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 159  More...  Data post 1855 
ADELAIDE33/1842, 10 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
ADELINE CANN66/1847, 187 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 157  More...  Data post 1855 
ALBERT61/1848 Registry transferred to Digby 1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 158  More...  Data post 1855 
ALBION9/1847 Re-registered at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 18/1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
18/1850, 73 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 160  
ALCESTE55/1847, 559 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 157  More...  Data post 1855 
ALERT56/1846 Registry transferred to Halifax 1848 BT 162/20-4, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
ALLEN BROWN70/1845, 330 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 155  More...  Data post 1855 
ALONZO51/1848, 45 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 158  More...  Data post 1855 
AMELIA69/1849, 473 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 159  More...  Data post 1855 
ANN2/1848, 22 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 157  More...  Data post 1855 
ANN AUGUSTA30/1850, 113 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 160  More...  Data post 1855 
ANN ELIZA76/1849 Re-registered at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 49/1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 160  More...  Data post 1855 
49/1850, 93 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 161  
ANNE MCNAB30/1848 Registry transferred to Digby 1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 157  More...  Data post 1855 
ARGONAUT44/1850, 51 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 161  More...  Data post 1855 
ARGYLE1/1849, 406 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 158  More...  Data post 1855 
ASTREA23/1846, 27 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 155  More...  Data post 1855 
ATALANTA9/1849 Re-registered at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 16/1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 158  More...  Data post 1855 
16/1850, 37 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 160  
27/1850, 374 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 160  
AURORA64/1845, 13 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 155  More...  Data post 1855 
BARRINGTON33/1849, 42 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 159  More...  Data post 1855 
BEE9/1840, 19 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
12/1842, 25 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 154  
75/1846, 19 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 156  
BENEVOLENCE26/1850, 22 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 160  More...  Data post 1855 
BITTERN29/1847 Abandoned BT 162/20-4, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
BLACK HAWK61/1846 Registry transferred to Digby 1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
BOSTON LADY38/1848 Registry transferred to Digby 1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 158  More...  Data post 1855 
BRICK47/1846, 12 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
BRIDE4/1849, 36 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 158  More...  Data post 1855 
BRITANNIA13/1843 Lost 1847 BT 162/20-4, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
BYRON66/1849 Re-registered at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 12/1850 BT 162/20-4, folio 159  More...  Data post 1855 
12/1850, 67 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 160  
CALLA25/1845, 76 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 155  More...  Data post 1855 
CALYPSO22/1849, 50 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 159  More...  Data post 1855 
CAMILLA10/1845, 37 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 155  More...  Data post 1855 
CAROLINE52/1840 Wrecked 1851 BT 162/20-4, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
85/1847, 134 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 157  
CATHARINE33/1846, 37 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 155  More...  Data post 1855 
28/1849, 126 tons  BT 162/20-4, folio 159  
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