Ships shown as registered at Ship Harbour, NS 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.

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 Ship Harbour, NS may also be found under Hawkesbury, NS or Port Hawkesbury.

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
ACADIA365251861, Sail, 190 tons View entry for ACADIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ATALANTA365291862, Sail, 104 tons View entry for ATALANTA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRIDGE ANN365311863, Sail, 28 tons View entry for BRIDGE ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BUSY BEE4190217 tons View entry for BUSY BEE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CONSERVATIVE365331863, Sail, 21 tons View entry for CONSERVATIVE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH ELLEN4190428 tons View entry for ELIZABETH ELLEN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE C LAWRENCE365261861, Sail, 58 tons View entry for GEORGE C LAWRENCE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GOOD INTENT4190314 tons View entry for GOOD INTENT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
J W DEARING365271862, Sail, 104 tons View entry for J W DEARING in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JANE MCDOUGELL365351863, Sail, 82 tons View entry for JANE MCDOUGELL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
KATE365341863, Sail, 25 tons View entry for KATE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
LADY MULGRAVE4190611/1860, Sail, 129 tons View entry for LADY MULGRAVE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET38362Sail, 17 tons View entry for MARGARET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MATILDA4190712/1860, Sail, 67 tons View entry for MATILDA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
PRINCE OF WALES365221860, Sail, 68 tons View entry for PRINCE OF WALES in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SAINT MARY365231861, Sail, 25 tons View entry for SAINT MARY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SEA BIRD38383Sail, 20 tons View entry for SEA BIRD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SHOOTING STAR365211860, Sail, 36 tons View entry for SHOOTING STAR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SPARKLER365321863, Sail, 51 tons View entry for SPARKLER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SPEC4190136 tons View entry for SPEC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
THREE BROTHERS4190914/1860, Sail, 23 tons View entry for THREE BROTHERS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
VICTORY365281862, Sail, 73 tons View entry for VICTORY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
VOLANT4190813/1860, Sail, 29 tons View entry for VOLANT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
W D SMITH365241861, Sail, 67 tons View entry for W D SMITH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
WANDERER365301862, Sail, 128 tons View entry for WANDERER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
WILD HUNTER419101861, Sail, 181 tons View entry for WILD HUNTER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
WILMOT JANE4190521 tons View entry for WILMOT JANE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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