Ships pre-1855 named POMONA

This page is an index of ships by name drawn from the primary records of British shipping prior to 1855.

All British ships were registered at one of the hundreds of ports of registry around Britain and the then British Colonies. The documents relating to them, including the crew lists and agreements are now at The National Archives (TNA).

The index shows the ships' names and ports of registry, with links to other data such as the crew list holdings and with clear references to the sources of our data.

For a full explanation of the records of British shipping, please see our information page: Records of British ships

How to search for ships pre-1855 by name

On the search form, enter at least three letters of the ship's name and select whether you wish to make an Exact match search, or a fuzzy search based on whether the name Starts with this, Includes this or Ends with this. The form will not accept wild-card searches using '*', '%', '?' and suchlike.

For Exact searches only, if you know the ship's port of registry you can choose that from the list. Otherwise, just leave this blank.

Then click

Reading the results

For exact searches, the results show the ships' ports of registry.

For the fuzzy searches, the results show an alphabetic list of possible ship names, from which you can select one to go to an exact search result.

The results show a list of registry details, together with other details such as tonnage. Some data sources show the official number which was allocated from 1855 onwards and which we include as a convenient link to data for the ship post-1855.

Any available details of the register closure are shown.

The source of our information is shown. In some cases, the icons link to images of the Appropriation Books which show data for ships registered pre-1855. You can check our data for yourself.

On the right-hand side of the page, there are further links.

provides details of the crew list holdings at TNA for ships of that name and port (with further links to the FamilySearch films online). Be aware The TNA catalogue shows only the range of names held in each box. There is no guarantee that there will be records for a particular ship.

links to the CLIP advanced search pages which will show any data we have for ships post-1855 of that name and port. Be aware Because that search is by name and port, these are only tentative suggestions - the ship may have ceased to exist, or her port of registry may have changed.

The 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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Port of registry Details Closure Official number Source Crew lists Links Port no/PR no
Aberdeen39/1837, 180 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 1TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
38/1841, 131 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 21/316 Lookup PR noPR
38/1841, 131 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-08, folio 321, 18501/316 Lookup PR noPR
38/1841, Sail, 130 tons   18820 View details for this ONRSS, Appropriation Books 1/316 Lookup PR noPR
Alloa7/1837, 359 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 64TNA BT 98 Data post 1855113/56 Lookup PR noPR
7/1837, 359 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-08, folio 326, 1850113/56 Lookup PR noPR
Barnstaple1/1842, 71 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 3TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
Bideford6/1855, 69 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 32, row 67TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
Bristol38/1843, 217 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 7TNA BT 98 Data post 185518/334 Lookup PR noPR
30/1846, 217 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 2718/470 Lookup PR noPR
30/1846, 217 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-01, folio 28, 185018/470 Lookup PR noPR
53/1852, 216 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 32, row 13 
Cardigan77/1836, 94 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 8TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
77/1836,  Lost 1850 TNA, BT 162/19-02, folio 41, 1850 
Dundee17/1847, 141 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 30TNA BT 98 Data post 185538/532 Lookup PR noPR
17/1847, 141 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-09, folio 344, 185038/532 Lookup PR noPR
32/1851, 135 tons  Registry transferred to Newcastle 20/1855 TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 70 Data post 185538/797 Lookup PR noPR
Gloucester84/1826, 43 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 18TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
84/1826, 43 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-03, folio 87, 1850 
Goole15/1836, 45 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 19TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
17/1848, 45 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 7347/653 Lookup PR noPR
17/1848, 45 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-03, folio 98, 185047/653 Lookup PR noPR
17/1848, Sail, 44 tons   4771 View details for this ONRSS, Appropriation Books 47/653 Lookup PR noPR
Halifax, Nova Scotia244/1847, 82 tons   TNA, BT 162/20-3, folio 130, 1850TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
Hartlepool26/1855, 130 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 33, row 1TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
Hull51/1837, 39 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 23TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
51/1837, 39 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-03, folio 108, 1850 
28/1843, 46 tons  Re-registered at Hull 77/1853 TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 2252/259 Lookup PR noPR
28/1843, 46 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-03, folio 110, 185052/259 Lookup PR noPR
77/1853, previously Hull 28/1843  TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 22 
Liverpool315/1852, 845 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 32, row 20TNA BT 98 Data post 185562/4335 Lookup PR noPR
London307/1836, 121 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-5, image 3TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
211/1842, 92 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-5, image 9 
359/1842, 92 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-5, image 10 
277/1843, 306 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-5, image 11 
277/1843, 306 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 30, row 39 
415/1844, 92 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-5, image 1264/3404 Lookup PR noPR
415/1844, 92 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 264/3404 Lookup PR noPR
161/1846, 92 tons   TNA, BT 111/7-1, image 2464/4086 Lookup PR noPR
161/1846, 92 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 4264/4086 Lookup PR noPR
Lynn11/1846, 180 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 38TNA BT 98 Data post 185568/228 Lookup PR noPR
11/1846,  Lost TNA, BT 162/19-04, folio 155, 185068/228 Lookup PR noPR
Montrose6/1836, 141 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 5TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
Newcastle100/1831, 303 tons  Registry transferred to Shields 71/1855 TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 8TNA BT 98 Data post 185575/199 Lookup PR noPR
100/1831, 303 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-05, folio 170, 185075/199 Lookup PR noPR
99/1836, 94 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 975/392 Lookup PR noPR
99/1836, 94 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-05, folio 170, 185075/392 Lookup PR noPR
32/1839, 284 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 11 
20/1855, previously Dundee 32/1851  TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 31, row 70 
20/1855, 135 tons   TNA, BT 111/31-4, image 32, row 61 
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