Ships shown as registered at Perth in the Mercantile Navy List for 1857

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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AGNES19410 View entry for AGNES in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AGNES CAMPBELL19429 View entry for AGNES CAMPBELL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AGNES CHRISTIE19415 View entry for AGNES CHRISTIE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALBION7159 View entry for ALBION in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALICE23402 View entry for ALICE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMETHYST7138 View entry for AMETHYST in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN FLEMING19430 View entry for ANN FLEMING in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARBA17635 View entry for ARBA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BALLARK19434 View entry for BALLARK in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY & ISABELLA7193 View entry for BETSEY & ISABELLA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSY19427 View entry for BETSY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BLOSSOM19417 View entry for BLOSSOM in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BREEZE3453 View entry for BREEZE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CECILIA MATILDA19401 View entry for CECILIA MATILDA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CITY OF PERTH15610 View entry for CITY OF PERTH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CLIPPER10033 View entry for CLIPPER in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COUNTESS OF LEVEN & MELVILLE7180 View entry for COUNTESS OF LEVEN & MELVILLE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DAVID3496 View entry for DAVID in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DAVIDS19431 View entry for DAVIDS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DEAN OF GUILD19438 View entry for DEAN OF GUILD in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DUNKELD15622 View entry for DUNKELD in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE19416 View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA19413 View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA19437 View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH6586 View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FAIR CITY24797 View entry for FAIR CITY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FERGUS7714 View entry for FERGUS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
GLEAM19407 View entry for GLEAM in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HALLS348 View entry for HALLS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HELEN19428 View entry for HELEN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HELEN INGLIS3569 View entry for HELEN INGLIS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HOPE10053 View entry for HOPE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ISABELLA19425 View entry for ISABELLA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JANE17619 View entry for JANE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JANE31783 View entry for JANE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JANE CAMERON19439 View entry for JANE CAMERON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JANE MILLER19422 View entry for JANE MILLER in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JANET PITBLADO6940 View entry for JANET PITBLADO in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JOHN & JEAN19402 View entry for JOHN & JEAN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JOHN & MARY19436 View entry for JOHN & MARY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JOHN FERGUS19419 View entry for JOHN FERGUS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JUNO8473 View entry for JUNO in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LADY CAMPBELL6838 View entry for LADY CAMPBELL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LORD PROVOST19424 View entry for LORD PROVOST in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LORD ROLLO19435 View entry for LORD ROLLO in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LOUISA17649 View entry for LOUISA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MAJESTIC23033 View entry for MAJESTIC in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET17461 View entry for MARGARET in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET17462 View entry for MARGARET in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET19420 View entry for MARGARET in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
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