Ships shown as registered at St Kitts 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  ? .

Records for St Kitts may also be found under Basseterre, St Kitts or St Christopher.

Click a port name to see the records for that port

To show records for all the ports together, please click here

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsSort by year of registryABs Crew lists Link
ADVANCE1085924/1899, Sail, 6 tons View entry for ADVANCE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALCINA H1521581/1928, Sail, 28 tons View entry for ALCINA H in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE1085965/1900, Sail, 19 tons View entry for ALICE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE H HUGHES1521505/1923, Sail, 9 tons View entry for ALICE H HUGHES in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA1085912/1899, Sail, 8 tons View entry for ALPHA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRIDE1085976/1900, Sail, 7 tons View entry for BRIDE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CASKET399691854, Sail, 48 tons View entry for CASKET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
DAGMAR1086061/1903, Sail, 8 tons View entry for DAGMAR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
DAPHNIA1521563/1927, Sail, 33 tons View entry for DAPHNIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
EBENEZER40575Sail, 6 tons View entry for EBENEZER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE399601851, Sail, 37 tons View entry for ECLIPSE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA ANN399701849, Sail, 8 tons View entry for ELIZA ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH LOUISA405761856, Sail, 3 tons View entry for ELIZABETH LOUISA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
EMMA G1521592/1928, Sail, 10 tons View entry for EMMA G in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE405731856, Sail, 198 tons View entry for ENTERPRISE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
EUGENIE1086072/1903, Sail, 9 tons View entry for EUGENIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
FAIR TOIL1521482/1923, Sail, 1 tons View entry for FAIR TOIL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
FLORIAN1086088/1903, Sail, 15 tons View entry for FLORIAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
FORTITUDE393491851, Sail, 7 tons View entry for FORTITUDE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GAZELLE1086031/1902, Sail, 25 tons View entry for GAZELLE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GENESTA1085999/1900, Sail, 7 tons View entry for GENESTA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GLADYS10860010/1900, Sail, 20 tons View entry for GLADYS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GOOD HOPE G1521532/1926, Sail, 15 tons View entry for GOOD HOPE G in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HALCYON399651854, Sail, 7 tons View entry for HALCYON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HOPE405711853, Sail, 8 tons View entry for HOPE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
INDUSTRY H1521603/1928, Sail View entry for INDUSTRY H in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
K NEW1521521/1926, Sail, 16 tons View entry for K NEW in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
LADY NISBETT1521641/1930, Sail, 28 tons View entry for LADY NISBETT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
LOUISA399541853, Sail, 11 tons View entry for LOUISA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MARGRETTA399551850, Sail, 28 tons View entry for MARGRETTA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MELVINE1086091/1905, Sail, 6 tons View entry for MELVINE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
METEOR1086022/1901, Sail, 10 tons View entry for METEOR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
NEVER DESPAIR399671849, Sail, 1 tons View entry for NEVER DESPAIR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ORANGE FLOWER1085943/1900, Sail, 6 tons View entry for ORANGE FLOWER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
PRIDE1085954/1900, Sail, 6 tons View entry for PRIDE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
PROCEED1086011/1901, Sail, 11 tons View entry for PROCEED in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
PROVIDENCE1521552/1927, Motor, 11 tons View entry for PROVIDENCE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ROSEBUD399591849, Sail, 21 tons View entry for ROSEBUD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
RUBY1085935/1899, Sail, 12 tons View entry for RUBY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
S K B F NO 615214611/1922, Sail, 25 tons View entry for S K B F NO 6 in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SHAMROCK D1521574/1927, Sail, 25 tons View entry for SHAMROCK D in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
STAR OF NEVIS1085988/1900, Sail, 31 tons View entry for STAR OF NEVIS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SUNBEAM R1521614/1928, Sail, 27 tons View entry for SUNBEAM R in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SWAN HILDA1086053/1902, Sail, 13 tons View entry for SWAN HILDA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SWIFT NO 21521471/1923, Sail, 14 tons View entry for SWIFT NO 2 in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
TELEPHONE1086042/1902, Sail, 13 tons View entry for TELEPHONE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
TELEPHONE R1521493/1923, Sail, 5 tons View entry for TELEPHONE R in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
TRIAL405741856, Sail, 5 tons View entry for TRIAL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
TRUST & TRY1521631/1929, Sail, 35 tons View entry for TRUST & TRY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
TRY AGAIN JOHN1521625/1928, Sail, 6 tons View entry for TRY AGAIN JOHN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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