Ships shown as registered at Lynn 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  ? .

Records for Lynn may also be found under King's Lynn.

Click a port name to see the records for that port

To show records for all the ports together, please click here

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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
ABEONA7/1840, 160 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/87 Lookup PR noPR
17/1849, 19 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155 68/326 Lookup PR noPR
ABOYNE20/1844, 157 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/180 Lookup PR noPR
ACTIVE8/1850, 45 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 185568/342 Lookup PR noPR
ADEONA35/1836, 133 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/48 Lookup PR noPR
ADMIRAL BINGHAM23/1849, 149 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 185568/332 Lookup PR noPR
ADMIRAL COLLINGWOOD22/1849, 156 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 185568/331 Lookup PR noPR
ADMIRAL DRAKE18/1849, 117 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 185568/327 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION13/1848, 44 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/290 Lookup PR noPR
ALPHA9/1838, 52 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/72 Lookup PR noPR
AMELIA THOMPSON/1850, 385 tons Registry transferred to Sunderland 1850 BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
AMITY7/1843, 171 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/147 Lookup PR noPR
ANCHOR1/1844, 44 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/161 Lookup PR noPR
ANN38/1847, 74 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/271 Lookup PR noPR
42/1847, 165 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155 68/275 Lookup PR noPR
ANN & ELIZABETH1/1843, 24 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/141 Lookup PR noPR
ANN & MARIA10/1846, 80 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/227 Lookup PR noPR
ANT15/1849, 40 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/324 Lookup PR noPR
ARGO14/1848, 56 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/291 Lookup PR noPR
ARROW19/1850, 175 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 185568/353 Lookup PR noPR
ATLANTIC28/1845 Lost BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/210 Lookup PR noPR
ATLAS14/1835 Lost BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
BALTIC17/1847, 225 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/250 Lookup PR noPR
BETSY6/1846, 24 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/223 Lookup PR noPR
15/1848, 39 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155 68/292 Lookup PR noPR
BLAGDON28/1840, 102 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
BLOSSOM28/1848 Re-registered at Lynn BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/305 Lookup PR noPR
24/1850, 90 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156 68/358 Lookup PR noPR
BOLDON11/1845, 230 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/193 Lookup PR noPR
BRITANNIA11/1840 Lost BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 1855 
BRITISH QUEEN8/1849, 261 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/317 Lookup PR noPR
CAROLINE20/1847, 26 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/253 Lookup PR noPR
CATHERINE FRAZER23/1848 Re-registered at Lynn BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/300 Lookup PR noPR
/1850, 167 tons Registry transferred to London 1850 BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 1855 
CERES2/1836, 174 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/27 Lookup PR noPR
11/1850, 42 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156 68/345 Lookup PR noPR
CHAMPION11/1849, 199 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/320 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLES WILLIAM43/1847, 43 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/276 Lookup PR noPR
CIRCE7/1847, 133 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/240 Lookup PR noPR
CLEVELAND23/1840, 111 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/98 Lookup PR noPR
CLIO9/1850, 168 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 185568/343 Lookup PR noPR
COMMERCE29/1848 Re-registered at Lynn BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/306 Lookup PR noPR
20/1849, 45 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156 68/329 Lookup PR noPR
21/1850, 76 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156 68/355 Lookup PR noPR
CONFUCIUS16/1849, 179 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/325 Lookup PR noPR
DASH4/1850, 20 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 156  More...  Data post 185568/338 Lookup PR noPR
DOLPHIN13/1847, 13 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 155  More...  Data post 185568/246 Lookup PR noPR
DOVE38/1840, 164 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/110 Lookup PR noPR
25/1845, 10 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154 68/207 Lookup PR noPR
DUKE10/1841, 151 tons  BT 162/19-04, folio 154  More...  Data post 185568/120 Lookup PR noPR
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