Ships shown as registered at Exeter 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
ABEONA83/1836, 70 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/70 Lookup PR noPR
ADA13/1846, 100 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/266 Lookup PR noPR
AGENORIA36/1837, 34 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/84 Lookup PR noPR
ALARM6/1848 Vessel burnt BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/316 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION19/1845, 51 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/241 Lookup PR noPR
18/1847, 84 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74 39/306 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER11/1847 Registry transferred to London 1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/299 Lookup PR noPR
20/1850, 112 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75 39/383 Lookup PR noPR
ALFRED6/1842 Re-registered at Exeter 2/1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 1855 
2/1850, 153 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75 39/365 Lookup PR noPR
ALICE10/1847, 71 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/298 Lookup PR noPR
AMETHYST5/1846 Re-registered at Exeter 9/1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/258 Lookup PR noPR
9/1850, 209 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75 39/372 Lookup PR noPR
AMY27/1839, 232 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/121 Lookup PR noPR
ANNA MARIA3/1849, 168 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/347 Lookup PR noPR
ANNAPOLIS8/1848, 117 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/318 Lookup PR noPR
ARROW8/1846 Re-registered at Exeter 8/1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/261 Lookup PR noPR
8/1850, 113 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75 39/371 Lookup PR noPR
ATALANTA10/1848, 90 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/320 Lookup PR noPR
BETSEY70/1826, 43 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 1855 
BLUE BELLE19/1849, 24 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75  More...  Data post 185539/363 Lookup PR noPR
BRIGAND26/1846, 132 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/279 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA5/1842, 99 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/159 Lookup PR noPR
BROTHERS18/1840, 16 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 1855 
5/1848, 19 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74 39/315 Lookup PR noPR
CALLA13/1840, 188 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/134 Lookup PR noPR
CAMBRIA4/1847, 121 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/292 Lookup PR noPR
CAPE PACKET10/1843 Lost 1849 BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 1855 
CARIB10/1850, 112 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75  More...  Data post 185539/373 Lookup PR noPR
CAROLINE18/1849, 45 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75  More...  Data post 185539/362 Lookup PR noPR
CASH17/1848, 13 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/327 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE7/1845, 17 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/229 Lookup PR noPR
15/1848, 144 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74 39/325 Lookup PR noPR
CELERITY1/1850, 118 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75  More...  Data post 185539/364 Lookup PR noPR
CENTAUR11/1848, 124 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/321 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLOTTE15/1840, 39 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/135 Lookup PR noPR
CHARTLEY CASTLE18/1842, 382 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/171 Lookup PR noPR
CHERUB30/1845, 15 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/252 Lookup PR noPR
CHEVERELL14/1842, 352 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/167 Lookup PR noPR
CLIO23/1850, 116 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75  More...  Data post 185539/386 Lookup PR noPR
CLIPPER24/1850, 138 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75  More...  Data post 185539/387 Lookup PR noPR
CLITUS16/1843 Lost 1848 BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 1855 
COMMERCE11/1827, 78 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 1855 
COMMODORE17/1836, 89 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/46 Lookup PR noPR
CONQUEST29/1850, 169 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75  More...  Data post 185539/392 Lookup PR noPR
CUMBERLAND LASS7/1846, 235 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/260 Lookup PR noPR
CYGNET3/1838, 19 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 1855 
DARBY ALLEN2/1842, 56 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 73  More...  Data post 185539/157 Lookup PR noPR
DART9/1845 Re-registered at Exeter 9/1850 BT 162/19-02, folio 74  More...  Data post 185539/231 Lookup PR noPR
27/1850, 72 tons  BT 162/19-02, folio 75 39/390 Lookup PR noPR
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