Ships shown as registered at Aberdeen 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
ABERDEEN PACKET34/1838, 105 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 1855 
ABERDONIAN1/1844, 146 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/395 Lookup PR noPR
ACASTA4/1845, 327 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/434 Lookup PR noPR
ACTIVE14/1833 Registry not required 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 1855 
ADMIRAL14/1846, 187 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/472 Lookup PR noPR
AGNES34/1847, 161 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/530 Lookup PR noPR
AGNES BLAIKIE44/1841 Registry transferred to Swansea 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 1855 
AGOSTINA28/1847, 334 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/524 Lookup PR noPR
ALBERT35/1848 Re-registered at Aberdeen 2/1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/583 Lookup PR noPR
2/1850, 321 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 324 1/632 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION32/1826, 266 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 18551/8 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT39/1847 Registry transferred to London 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/535 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER32/1829 Lost 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 1855 
/1833 Registry not required 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 320  
ALEXANDER HALL19/1845, 404 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/449 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER HARVEY9/1840, 292 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 18551/250 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER STEVENSON39/1832 Registry cancelled 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 1855 
AMHERST24/1846, 169 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/482 Lookup PR noPR
ANEMONE20/1840, 200 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 1855 
ANN60/1839 Registry transferred to Shields 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 1855 
34/1843, 168 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322 1/392 Lookup PR noPR
ANN & ISABELLA1/1850, 184 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 324  More...  Data post 18551/631 Lookup PR noPR
ANN SMITH54/1839, 293 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 18551/239 Lookup PR noPR
ARAB16/1839, 207 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 18551/208 Lookup PR noPR
ARABELLA27/1842, 156 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 18551/349 Lookup PR noPR
ARETHUSA44/1839 Registry transferred to Shields 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 1855 
ARGUS2/1843, 65 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 18551/360 Lookup PR noPR
ARIEL46/1848, 315 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/594 Lookup PR noPR
ARMITSTEAD24/1847, 132 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/520 Lookup PR noPR
AURORA20/1847, 128 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/516 Lookup PR noPR
BALGOWNIE39/1848, 325 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/587 Lookup PR noPR
BALMORAL43/1848, 357 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/591 Lookup PR noPR
BAMBOROUGH CASTLE27/1850, 46 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 324  More...  Data post 18551/657 Lookup PR noPR
BELINA92/1836, 114 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 18551/116 Lookup PR noPR
BEN MUICK DHUI12/1848, 244 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/560 Lookup PR noPR
BERBICE20/1848 Re-registered at Aberdeen 9/1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/568 Lookup PR noPR
9/1850, 369 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 324 1/639 Lookup PR noPR
BESSY ROBERTSON27/1839, 150 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 1855 
BETSEY40/1836, 114 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 18551/100 Lookup PR noPR
27/1847, 69 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 322 1/523 Lookup PR noPR
BLOSSOM21/1847 Lost 1850 BT 162/19-08, folio 322  More...  Data post 18551/517 Lookup PR noPR
BONACCORD6/1849, 197 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/606 Lookup PR noPR
BONNIE DUNDEE21/1848, 199 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 323  More...  Data post 18551/569 Lookup PR noPR
BREEZE12/1850, 102 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 324  More...  Data post 18551/642 Lookup PR noPR
BRIGAND22/1840, 157 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  More...  Data post 18551/260 Lookup PR noPR
BRILLIANT7/1830, 332 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 1855 
50/1840, 250 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321 1/280 Lookup PR noPR
14/1850, 548 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 324 1/644 Lookup PR noPR
BROTHERS37/1832, 23 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 320  More...  Data post 1855 
28/1838, 33 tons  BT 162/19-08, folio 321  
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