Ships shown as registered at West Hartlepool in the Mercantile Navy List for 1880

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 West Hartlepool may also be found under Hartlepool.

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 DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
AGNES784051877, Steam View entry for AGNES in MNL 1880, page 3 MHACLIPMore...
ALABAMA291031876, Steam View entry for ALABAMA in MNL 1880, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
ALVERTON784071878, Steam View entry for ALVERTON in MNL 1880, page 6 MHACLIPMore...
AMCOTT675241872, Steam View entry for AMCOTT in MNL 1880, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
ANATOLIA784091878, Steam View entry for ANATOLIA in MNL 1880, page 7 MHACLIPMore...
ANN & SARAH23913Sail, Brig View entry for ANN & SARAH in MNL 1880, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
ANN PEAT12498Sail, Brig View entry for ANN PEAT in MNL 1880, page 168 MHACLIPMore...
ANNAN675341872, Steam View entry for ANNAN in MNL 1880, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE630341870, Steam View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1880, page 8 MHACLIPMore...
ARGO522Sail, Schooner View entry for ARGO in MNL 1880, page 176 MHACLIPMore...
ASTLEY26916Sail, Brig View entry for ASTLEY in MNL 1880, page 179 MHACLIPMore...
AVERILL784151878, Steam View entry for AVERILL in MNL 1880, page 11 MHACLIPMore...
BETSY28802Sail, Schooner View entry for BETSY in MNL 1880, page 190 MHACLIPMore...
BLACKHEATH655191871, Steam View entry for BLACKHEATH in MNL 1880, page 16 MHACLIPMore...
BLYTHVILLE784021877, Steam View entry for BLYTHVILLE in MNL 1880, page 17 MHACLIPMore...
BREEZE675571875, Steam View entry for BREEZE in MNL 1880, page 18 MHACLIPMore...
BRILLIANT23426Sail, Brig View entry for BRILLIANT in MNL 1880, page 196 MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH QUEEN498081867, Steam View entry for BRITISH QUEEN in MNL 1880, page 19 MHACLIPMore...
BURLINGTON675261872, Steam View entry for BURLINGTON in MNL 1880, page 20 MHACLIPMore...
CAROLUS67535Sail, Schooner View entry for CAROLUS in MNL 1880, page 207 MHACLIPMore...
CELESTE726431875, Steam View entry for CELESTE in MNL 1880, page 23 MHACLIPMore...
CHAMOIS784161878, Steam View entry for CHAMOIS in MNL 1880, page 24 MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE YOUNG54572Sail, Barque View entry for CHARLOTTE YOUNG in MNL 1880, page 215 MHACLIPMore...
CHESTER655121871, Steam View entry for CHESTER in MNL 1880, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
CHILTON815021879, Steam View entry for CHILTON in MNL 1880, page 25 MHACLIPMore...
CIRCASSIA784141878, Steam View entry for CIRCASSIA in MNL 1880, page 26 MHACLIPMore...
COLINA815051879, Steam View entry for COLINA in MNL 1880, page 29 MHACLIPMore...
CONQUEROR282891867, Steam View entry for CONQUEROR in MNL 1880, page 30 MHACLIPMore...
CONSTANCE675531874, Steam View entry for CONSTANCE in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
CORAL QUEEN11591879, Steam View entry for CORAL QUEEN in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
CORCYRA20008Sail, Brig View entry for CORCYRA in MNL 1880, page 227 MHACLIPMore...
CORNELIA675201872, Steam View entry for CORNELIA in MNL 1880, page 31 MHACLIPMore...
COSGROVE28514Sail, Snow View entry for COSGROVE in MNL 1880, page 228 MHACLIPMore...
CRAIGLANDS784251879, Steam View entry for CRAIGLANDS in MNL 1880, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
CRIMDON784101878, Steam View entry for CRIMDON in MNL 1880, page 32 MHACLIPMore...
DANIA655031871, Steam View entry for DANIA in MNL 1880, page 34 MHACLIPMore...
DORA650381871, Steam View entry for DORA in MNL 1880, page 37 MHACLIPMore...
DOUGLAS675391873, Steam View entry for DOUGLAS in MNL 1880, page 37 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE21076Sail, Barque View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1880, page 248 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE784081878, Steam View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1880, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
EDEN815031879, Steam View entry for EDEN in MNL 1880, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
EDWARD WILLIAMS655181871, Steam View entry for EDWARD WILLIAMS in MNL 1880, page 41 MHACLIPMore...
ELEANOR DODSON24882Sail, Barque View entry for ELEANOR DODSON in MNL 1880, page 252 MHACLIPMore...
ELPIS784171878, Steam View entry for ELPIS in MNL 1880, page 43 MHACLIPMore...
ESKDALE675441873, Steam View entry for ESKDALE in MNL 1880, page 45 MHACLIPMore...
ETNA675581874, Steam View entry for ETNA in MNL 1880, page 46 MHACLIPMore...
EUSTACE784211879, Steam View entry for EUSTACE in MNL 1880, page 46 MHACLIPMore...
FARNLEY HALL655081871, Steam View entry for FARNLEY HALL in MNL 1880, page 48 MHACLIPMore...
FRANCES21017Sail, Schooner View entry for FRANCES in MNL 1880, page 292 MHACLIPMore...
FREEDOM654031874, Steam View entry for FREEDOM in MNL 1880, page 52 MHACLIPMore...
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