Ships shown as registered at St Andrews, NB 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
A & J19201937/1949, Motor, 13 tons View entry for A & J in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A I FRANKLIN593711/1876, Sail, 53 tons View entry for A I FRANKLIN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A I MALLOCH593461872, Sail, 21 tons View entry for A I MALLOCH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A M HOWE593891/1878, Sail, 54 tons View entry for A M HOWE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A1 K HOL1511491/1929, Motor, 2 tons View entry for A1 K HOL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ABONA4055212/1852, Sail, 212 tons View entry for ABONA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ACORN19855111/1956, Motor, 14 tons View entry for ACORN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADA925175/1888, Sail, 10 tons View entry for ADA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADA W1587113/1935, Motor, 6 tons View entry for ADA W in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADDIE B1031242/1896, Sail, 13 tons View entry for ADDIE B in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADELENE M GREENLAW1511502/1929, Motor, 14 tons View entry for ADELENE M GREENLAW in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADMETA17352511/1941, Motor, 12 tons View entry for ADMETA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADMIRAL TOGO1169652/1905, Sail, 12 tons View entry for ADMIRAL TOGO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AERIAL35343Sail, 10 tons View entry for AERIAL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AGNATE353583/1858, Sail, 11 tons View entry for AGNATE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AINSLIE19016215/1948, Motor, 12 tons View entry for AINSLIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AL-BRIAN19480711/1952, Motor, 12 tons View entry for AL-BRIAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALANA17808523/1947, Motor, 35 tons View entry for ALANA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT354295/1863, Sail, 69 tons View entry for ALBERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBERTINE 2ND17030415/1936, Motor, 19 tons View entry for ALBERTINE 2ND in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALERT35363Sail, 10 tons View entry for ALERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALERT9483111/1888, Sail, 15 tons View entry for ALERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALERT1222432/1907, Sail, 18 tons View entry for ALERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER MILLIKEN3546137/1863, Sail, 177 tons View entry for ALEXANDER MILLIKEN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE3544623/1863, Sail, 99 tons View entry for ALICE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE593644/1875, Sail, 10 tons View entry for ALICE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE & DANA1972881/1955, Motor, 19 tons View entry for ALICE & DANA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE GRACE1723795/1941, Motor, 7 tons View entry for ALICE GRACE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE J1337866/1913, Steam, 13 tons View entry for ALICE J in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE LEONARD3548422/1864, Sail, 198 tons View entry for ALICE LEONARD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE MARIE19374829/1951, Motor, 13 tons View entry for ALICE MARIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE RUTH15522510/1929, Motor, 2 tons View entry for ALICE RUTH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALKIRIS1751781/1944, Motor, 16 tons View entry for ALKIRIS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALL ALONE1552236/1929, Sail, 24 tons View entry for ALL ALONE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN MCLEAN17913013/1948, Motor, 42 tons View entry for ALLAN MCLEAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALMA3530214/1855, Sail, 99 tons View entry for ALMA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALMA CONNORS1571484/1932, Motor, 20 tons View entry for ALMA CONNORS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA12204710/1906, Steam, 10 tons View entry for ALPHA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALPINE3544017/1863, Sail, 516 tons View entry for ALPINE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALVERNA MAE1985567/1956, Motor, 13 tons View entry for ALVERNA MAE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALWAGE19727815/1954, Motor, 12 tons View entry for ALWAGE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AMOS M HOLT593722/1876, Sail, 33 tons View entry for AMOS M HOLT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AMY WOOSTER3545834/1863, Sail, 150 tons View entry for AMY WOOSTER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANGLO AMERICAN517507/1866, Sail, 92 tons View entry for ANGLO AMERICAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN & RONALD19726525/1953, Motor, 28 tons View entry for ANN & RONALD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN IRENE1584989/1934, Motor, 9 tons View entry for ANN IRENE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN LEONARD35368Sail, 90 tons View entry for ANN LEONARD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNA LEE1720067/1939, Motor, 12 tons View entry for ANNA LEE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNA P ODELL593689/1875, Sail, 380 tons View entry for ANNA P ODELL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNAWAN882753/1884, Sail, 16 tons View entry for ANNAWAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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