Ships pre-1855 named JEMIMA

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
Aberdeen5/1842, 55 tons  Lost TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 32, row 6TNA BT 98 Data post 18551/329 Lookup PR noPR
5/1842, 55 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-08, folio 321, 18501/329 Lookup PR noPR
Aldeburgh1/1833, 33 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 32, row 7TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
Arbroath25/1845, 54 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 34, row 50TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
28/1845, 54 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-08, folio 330, 1850115/52 Lookup PR noPR
Cley2/1853, 15 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 36, row 37TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
2/1853, Sail, 15 tons   ?   ?   21223 View details for this ONRSS, Appropriation Books  
Colchester21/1852, 12 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 35, row 61TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
21/1852, Sail, 12 tons   9552 View details for this ONRSS, Appropriation Books  
31/1852, 25 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 35, row 62 
Grimsby6/1847, 31 tons  Re-registered at Grimsby 8/1854 TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 35, row 4TNA BT 98 Data post 185549/60 Lookup PR noPR
6/1847, 31 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-03, folio 100, 185049/60 Lookup PR noPR
8/1854, previously Grimsby 6/1847  TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 35, row 4 
Hull44/1848, 99 tons  Lost TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 35, row 6TNA BT 98 Data post 185552/779 Lookup PR noPR
44/1848, 100 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-03, folio 113, 185052/779 Lookup PR noPR
Ipswich10/1839, 33 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 33, row 7TNA BT 98 Data post 185555/87 Lookup PR noPR
10/1839, 33 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-03, folio 118, 185055/87 Lookup PR noPR
10/1839, Sail, 33 tons   11900 View details for this ONRSS, Appropriation Books 55/87 Lookup PR noPR
Liverpool243/1848, 816 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 35, row 18TNA BT 98 Data post 185562/2911 Lookup PR noPR
243/1848, 816 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-04, folio 139, 185062/2911 Lookup PR noPR
London41/1833, 123 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-3, image 23TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
174/1834, 123 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-3, image 24 
403/1838, 108 tons   TNA, BT 111/5-3, image 29 
Newcastle183/1846, 272 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 34, row 3TNA BT 98 Data post 185575/2086 Lookup PR noPR
3/1848,  Registry transferred to Shields TNA, BT 162/19-05, folio 181, 1850 Data post 185575/2461 Lookup PR noPR
Newry4/1827, 53 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 33, row 72TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
4/1827, 53 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-11, folio 431, 1850 
Shields85/1850, 272 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 36, row 11TNA BT 98 Data post 1855124/592 Lookup PR noPR
85/1850, 273 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-06, folio 239, 1850124/592 Lookup PR noPR
St John's, Newfoundland108/1846, 104 tons   TNA, BT 162/20-2, folio 89, 1850TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
Sunderland53/1846, 326 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 34, row 19TNA BT 98 Data post 185592/1348 Lookup PR noPR
53/1846, 327 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-07, folio 260, 185092/1348 Lookup PR noPR
Wexford4/1842, 27 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 34, row 28TNA BT 98 Data post 1855 
4/1842, 27 tons   TNA, BT 162/19-11, folio 445, 1850 
Woodbridge1/1848, 23 tons   TNA, BT 111/30-4, image 35, row 51TNA BT 98 Data post 1855107/68 Lookup PR noPR
5/1852, Sail, 23 tons   21825 View details for this ONRSS, Appropriation Books  
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