Ships shown as registered at Shoreham 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
ADUR11/1846, 57 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/131 Lookup PR noPR
ALBION10/1845, 17 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/110 Lookup PR noPR
8/1848, 25 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243 88/166 Lookup PR noPR
ALFRED16/1847, 214 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/149 Lookup PR noPR
ALICE2/1849, 203 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/184 Lookup PR noPR
ANN6/1842, 171 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/67 Lookup PR noPR
ANNE10/1844, 188 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/95 Lookup PR noPR
AVENGER16/1848 Lost 1850 BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/174 Lookup PR noPR
BRITISH QUEEN15/1840 Re-registered at Shoreham 4/1850 BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/46 Lookup PR noPR
4/1850, 220 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243 88/202 Lookup PR noPR
BROWN SEA CASTLE11/1849, 20 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/193 Lookup PR noPR
CAROLINE11/1835, 19 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 1855 
19/1848, 23 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243 88/177 Lookup PR noPR
CHARLES7/1846, 216 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/127 Lookup PR noPR
CHRISTIANA22/1847, 17 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/155 Lookup PR noPR
CLARA JANE4/1849, 168 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/186 Lookup PR noPR
CLAUD7/1847 Re-registered at Shoreham 3/1850 BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/140 Lookup PR noPR
3/1850, 371 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243 88/201 Lookup PR noPR
DART1/1850, 29 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/199 Lookup PR noPR
DESIRE1/1849, 97 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/183 Lookup PR noPR
DIANNA7/1843, 8 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 1855 
DUKE OF WELLINGTON9/1845, 25 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/109 Lookup PR noPR
ECHO4/1848 Re-registered at Shoreham 2/1850 BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/162 Lookup PR noPR
2/1850, 182 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243 88/200 Lookup PR noPR
EIGHT SISTERS1/1842, 16 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 1855 
ELIZA EMMA17/1845, 173 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/117 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZA JANE11/1848, 222 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/169 Lookup PR noPR
ELIZABETH3/1847, 156 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/136 Lookup PR noPR
8/1849, 59 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243 88/190 Lookup PR noPR
EMMA10/1848, 185 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/168 Lookup PR noPR
ENGLISH ROSE14/1847, 151 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/147 Lookup PR noPR
ENTERPRISE6/1849, 121 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/188 Lookup PR noPR
EXCHANGE5/1849, 178 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/187 Lookup PR noPR
FAIRY10/1850, 190 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/208 Lookup PR noPR
FANNY7/1849, 268 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/189 Lookup PR noPR
FANNYS11/1845, 14 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/111 Lookup PR noPR
FLORA5/1848, 11 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/163 Lookup PR noPR
FLORENCE5/1850, 27 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/203 Lookup PR noPR
FOUR BROTHERS4/1841, 21 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 1855 
FRANCES & MARY8/1839, 13 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 1855 
GEORGE7/1840, 192 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 1855 
5/1846, 19 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242 88/125 Lookup PR noPR
GLEAM15/1849, 152 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/197 Lookup PR noPR
GRACE2/1846, 157 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/122 Lookup PR noPR
GULNARE13/1848, 138 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 243  More...  Data post 185588/171 Lookup PR noPR
HERCULES4/1838, 41 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/24 Lookup PR noPR
INDUSTRY2/1829, 19 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 1855 
6/1843, 19 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  
JAMES & HARRIOTT18/1847, 16 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/151 Lookup PR noPR
JANE13/1844, 13 tons  BT 162/19-06, folio 242  More...  Data post 185588/98 Lookup PR noPR
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