Ships shown as registered at Wigtown in the Appropriation Books

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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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsSort by year of registryABs Crew lists Link
AGNES7851853, Sail, 87 tons View entry for AGNES in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AID499771866, Sail, 275 tons View entry for AID in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBION217141852, Sail, 36 tons View entry for ALBION in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALERT92261847, Sail, 30 tons View entry for ALERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN179511841, Sail, 43 tons View entry for ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN MUSGRAVE217272/1849, Sail, 48 tons View entry for ANN MUSGRAVE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE HERON217121855, Sail, 49 tons View entry for ANNIE HERON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANT217011852, Sail, 31 tons View entry for ANT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARMBOTH239171851, Sail, 45 tons View entry for ARMBOTH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BARGANY217091836, Sail, 42 tons View entry for BARGANY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BESSIE ANN499721864, Sail, 13 tons View entry for BESSIE ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BREEZE217151850, Sail, 34 tons View entry for BREEZE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BROWNIE217174/1845, Sail, 17 tons View entry for BROWNIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA217031849, Sail, 28 tons View entry for CALEDONIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CAPTAIN HATHORN452331862, Sail, 143 tons View entry for CAPTAIN HATHORN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE217254/1851, Sail, 42 tons View entry for CHARLOTTE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CHEERFUL217262/1841, Sail, 52 tons View entry for CHEERFUL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLAUCHLOUDON92551847, Sail, 32 tons View entry for CLAUCHLOUDON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
COMET217351858, Sail, 34 tons View entry for COMET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
COUNTESS OF GALLOWAY217021847, Steam, 316 tons View entry for COUNTESS OF GALLOWAY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CREE217185/1846, Sail, 43 tons View entry for CREE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
DART217041846, Sail, 26 tons View entry for DART in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
EARL GREY217231/1853, Sail, 28 tons View entry for EARL GREY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
EARL OF STAIR131601841, Sail, 50 tons View entry for EARL OF STAIR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH216361849, Sail, 34 tons View entry for ELIZABETH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH217051847, Sail, 74 tons View entry for ELIZABETH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELLAN GOWAN274714/1859, Sail, 37 tons View entry for ELLAN GOWAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN & MARY499791868, Sail, 44 tons View entry for ELLEN & MARY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
FAME2173331/1836, Sail, 27 tons View entry for FAME in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GALLOWAY LASS274751862, Sail, 118 tons View entry for GALLOWAY LASS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GAME COCK499711864, Sail, 13 tons View entry for GAME COCK in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GEM452341863, Sail, 53 tons View entry for GEM in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GLENKENS274741862, Sail, 50 tons View entry for GLENKENS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GRACE GIBB17651840, Sail, 55 tons View entry for GRACE GIBB in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HARRIET217361859, Sail, 37 tons View entry for HARRIET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HARRIET622621869, Sail, 39 tons View entry for HARRIET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HARRIET STEWART3661848, Sail, 97 tons View entry for HARRIET STEWART in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HELEN MARSHALL452351864, Sail, 130 tons View entry for HELEN MARSHALL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ISABELLA207161846, Sail, 42 tons View entry for ISABELLA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ISABELLA STEWART81321836, Sail, 40 tons View entry for ISABELLA STEWART in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JAMES11651836, Sail, 36 tons View entry for JAMES in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JAMES REID499781867, Sail, 99 tons View entry for JAMES REID in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JANE217161853, Sail, 28 tons View entry for JANE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JANE622671/1883, Sail, 63 tons View entry for JANE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JANET MCWILLIAM3541851, Sail, 97 tons View entry for JANET MCWILLIAM in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JEANIE499731864, Sail, 14 tons View entry for JEANIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JESSIE & MARGARET217071846, Sail, 39 tons View entry for JESSIE & MARGARET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JOHN & ELIZA217302/1855, Sail, 38 tons View entry for JOHN & ELIZA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JOHN & HANNAH622611869, Sail, 134 tons View entry for JOHN & HANNAH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
KEITH STEWART217196/1847, Sail, 26 tons View entry for KEITH STEWART in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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