Ships shown as registered at Dover 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
AERA3/1838, 44 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
ANN27/1836, 19 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
5/1842, 37 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71 33/111 Lookup PR noPR
ANN & SUSANNAH3/1847, 28 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/173 Lookup PR noPR
BEE2/1849, 140 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/201 Lookup PR noPR
BETSEY1/1848, 16 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/190 Lookup PR noPR
BLUE EYED MAID9/1843, 23 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/123 Lookup PR noPR
BRIGAND2/1848, 131 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/191 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA25/1838, 25 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
3/1848, 52 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71 33/192 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE7/1848 Broken up BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/196 Lookup PR noPR
CHANCE11/1846, 138 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/161 Lookup PR noPR
COMET21/1846 Re-registered at Dover 5/1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
5/1850, 21 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 72 33/211 Lookup PR noPR
CONSTANT FRIEND6/1845 Broken up BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
COUNTESS OF LIVERPOOL5/1847, 90 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/175 Lookup PR noPR
CROWN2/1844, 162 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/130 Lookup PR noPR
DART12/1843, 20 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
DISPATCH24/1837, 49 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/60 Lookup PR noPR
DOURO2/1850, 54 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 72  More...  Data post 185533/208 Lookup PR noPR
DUKE OF WELLINGTON9/1830, 55 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
DWRGI5/1849, 15 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 72  More...  Data post 185533/204 Lookup PR noPR
EAGLE11/1847, 122 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/181 Lookup PR noPR
EARL RADNOR10/1836 Broken up BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
ELEANOR9/1828, 133 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
ELIZABETH16/1839, 36 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
ENDEAVOUR11/1839, 11 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
EXPRESS1/1849, 63 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/200 Lookup PR noPR
FAWN12/1845, 26 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/147 Lookup PR noPR
FORGET ME NOT15/1839, 31 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
FOX24/1836 Re-registered at Dover 6/1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
6/1850, 17 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 72 33/212 Lookup PR noPR
FRIENDS ENDEAVOUR43/1825, 30 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
GEM10/1841, 31 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
GEORGE THE FOURTH7/1843, 141 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/121 Lookup PR noPR
GULNARE8/1842, 26 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
HENRY ALEXANDER18/1847 Wrecked BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/188 Lookup PR noPR
HONORA5/1846, 65 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/155 Lookup PR noPR
HOPE9/1836, 24 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
6/1849, 18 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 72 33/205 Lookup PR noPR
INDUSTRY9/1845, 30 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
ISABELL5/1838, 23 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/62 Lookup PR noPR
JAMES & CHARLOTTE8/1839, 28 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
JAMES & JOHN4/1849, 19 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 72  More...  Data post 185533/203 Lookup PR noPR
JANE17/1846, 164 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/167 Lookup PR noPR
JANET14/1841, 117 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 185533/103 Lookup PR noPR
JASON18/1838, 41 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
JEAN & MARY10/1845, 97 tons Registry transferred to Sunderland 1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
JOHN & ANN16/1840, 37 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
LADY FRANCES10/1843, 29 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 71  More...  Data post 1855 
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