Ships shown as registered at Bridgwater 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.

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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ABEONA10894 View entry for ABEONA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ABRA10929 View entry for ABRA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMITY10802 View entry for AMITY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN10881 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN10909 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN18317 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN & JANE4188 View entry for ANN & JANE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARK10811 View entry for ARK in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARUNDEL5536 View entry for ARUNDEL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ASTREA10850 View entry for ASTREA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY10914 View entry for BETSEY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE10890 View entry for BLANCHE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BLESSING10805 View entry for BLESSING in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BLOSSOM10910 View entry for BLOSSOM in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRANSCOMBE24112 View entry for BRANSCOMBE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRISTOL PACKET10858 View entry for BRISTOL PACKET in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH EMPIRE12707 View entry for BRITISH EMPIRE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BROTHERS10840 View entry for BROTHERS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAERLEON8732 View entry for CAERLEON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAERLEON10812 View entry for CAERLEON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE10870 View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CELIA10834 View entry for CELIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CERES10904 View entry for CERES in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARD10825 View entry for CHARD in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES PHILLIPS10912 View entry for CHARLES PHILLIPS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COMMISSARY12315 View entry for COMMISSARY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COMMISSARY13315 View entry for COMMISSARY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CORNUCOPIA10911 View entry for CORNUCOPIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CYGNET10882 View entry for CYGNET in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DAKOTAH12359 View entry for DAKOTAH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DAVID10851 View entry for DAVID in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DUKE OF WELLINGTON14033 View entry for DUKE OF WELLINGTON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EARL OF ELGIN15657 View entry for EARL OF ELGIN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELEANOR10803 View entry for ELEANOR in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA10804 View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA10868 View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA10891 View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH10886 View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH ANN10913 View entry for ELIZABETH ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN10889 View entry for ELLEN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EMILY10874 View entry for EMILY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FAME10893 View entry for FAME in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FAME10899 View entry for FAME in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FANCY10928 View entry for FANCY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FANNY10923 View entry for FANNY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FORFARSHIRE12922 View entry for FORFARSHIRE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FORTITUDE10871 View entry for FORTITUDE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FORTITUDE18974 View entry for FORTITUDE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FRIENDS10829 View entry for FRIENDS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FRIENDS10832 View entry for FRIENDS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
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