Ships shown as registered at Leith 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 PACKET11/1841, 27 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
ADAM WHITE31/1842, 111 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/192 Lookup PR noPR
AGNES41/1847, 82 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/405 Lookup PR noPR
AID16/1850, 17 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/494 Lookup PR noPR
ALBERT23/1842, 32 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
6/1847, 72 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377 60/370 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION28/1843, 138 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/225 Lookup PR noPR
ALERT35/1847 Re-registered at Leith 12/1850 BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/399 Lookup PR noPR
12/1850, 42 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378 60/490 Lookup PR noPR
ALEXANDER31/1828, 20 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
ALPHA19/1840 Re-registered at Leith 5/1850 BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
5/1850, 36 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378 60/483 Lookup PR noPR
ANDREW & KATTY21/1847 Lost BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/385 Lookup PR noPR
ANN39/1843, 50 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
ANN MITCHELL5/1839, 65 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/99 Lookup PR noPR
ANNE33/1841, 59 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/158 Lookup PR noPR
ARIEL3/1846, 105 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/327 Lookup PR noPR
4/1847, 24 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377 60/368 Lookup PR noPR
ARK15/1849, 43 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/465 Lookup PR noPR
BALMORAL27/1850, 172 tons  BT 162/19-10, folio 379  More...  Data post 185560/505 Lookup PR noPR
BAMBOROUGH CASTLE9/1848 Registry transferred to Bo'ness 1850 BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/421 Lookup PR noPR
BAROSSA15/1824, 253 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/1 Lookup PR noPR
BEE15/1839, 50 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
BETSEY9/1829, 51 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
BORDER QUEEN33/1848 Re-registered at Leith 15/1850 BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/445 Lookup PR noPR
15/1850, 109 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378 60/493 Lookup PR noPR
BRILLIANT26/1848, 229 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/438 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA10/1847, 207 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/374 Lookup PR noPR
BROTHERS43/1826, 17 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
4/1838 Lost BT 162/19-09, folio 376  
BUCCLEUGH20/1829, 21 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
CALEDONIA14/1848, 736 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/426 Lookup PR noPR
CARRON24/1849, 63 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/474 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE28/1841, 194 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/154 Lookup PR noPR
6/1843, 61 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376 60/204 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLES & ANN17/1841, 37 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
CHIEFTAIN11/1849, 795 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/461 Lookup PR noPR
CHRISTIAN27/1830, 20 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
CHRISTINA23/1843 Registry transferred to Perth 1850 BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
CLYDE33/1844, 67 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/271 Lookup PR noPR
COLUMBUS22/1835, 306 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/41 Lookup PR noPR
COMET6/1846, 47 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/330 Lookup PR noPR
COMMERCIAL PACKET42/1847, 33 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/406 Lookup PR noPR
COMPETITOR4/1849, 76 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/454 Lookup PR noPR
COPSE70/1836, 277 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 185560/64 Lookup PR noPR
COUNTESS OF ZETLAND38/1846, 203 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377  More...  Data post 185560/362 Lookup PR noPR
COURIER17/1850, 245 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/495 Lookup PR noPR
DAEDALUS35/1836, 35 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 376  More...  Data post 1855 
15/1845, 225 tons  BT 162/19-09, folio 377 60/293 Lookup PR noPR
DART23/1849, 178 tons  BT 162/19-09/10, folio 378  More...  Data post 185560/473 Lookup PR noPR
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