Ships shown as registered at Port Medway, 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.

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 Port Medway, NS may also be found under Medway, Nova Scotia.

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
A FRED ARCHER833012/1882, Sail, 169 tons View entry for A FRED ARCHER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ACACIA833131/1885, Sail, 186 tons View entry for ACACIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADAH E713633/1875, Sail, 119 tons View entry for ADAH E in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE E LARDER908373/1900, Sail, 131 tons View entry for ANNIE E LARDER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARIZONA833075/1883, Sail, 115 tons View entry for ARIZONA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BEULAH BENTON713622/1875, Sail, 34 tons View entry for BEULAH BENTON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BLOSSOM713611/1875, Sail, 14 tons View entry for BLOSSOM in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CAPELLO741267/1877, Sail, 20 tons View entry for CAPELLO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CARITA908263/1889, Sail, 121 tons View entry for CARITA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CENTENNIAL713661/1876, Sail, 67 tons View entry for CENTENNIAL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CETO908241/1889, Sail, 95 tons View entry for CETO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES DUNCAN833041/1883, Sail, 149 tons View entry for CHARLES DUNCAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLARA E MCGILVERY908351/1898, Sail, 333 tons View entry for CLARA E MCGILVERY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLARA JANE741211877, Sail, 46 tons View entry for CLARA JANE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CORDELIA VOGLER713672/1876, Sail, 66 tons View entry for CORDELIA VOGLER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
DESSIE M833204/1886, Sail, 98 tons View entry for DESSIE M in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
DIEGO908341/1895, Sail, 27 tons View entry for DIEGO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
E A SABEAN908392/1901, Sail, 268 tons View entry for E A SABEAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELLA833087/1883, Sail, 10 tons View entry for ELLA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ELNORA T BONNEY1163531/1914, Steam, 19 tons View entry for ELNORA T BONNEY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
F C KIMBER908222/1887, Sail, 100 tons View entry for F C KIMBER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
G B ZWICKER1163522/1912, Sail, 13 tons View entry for G B ZWICKER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GENESTA833181/1886, Sail, 29 tons View entry for GENESTA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE WILLIAMS741256/1877, Sail, 16 tons View entry for GEORGE WILLIAMS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HAPPY GO LUCKY741289/1877, Sail, 36 tons View entry for HAPPY GO LUCKY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
HENRY N BATCHELDER908252/1889, Sail, 99 tons View entry for HENRY N BATCHELDER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
IONA833063/1883, Sail, 26 tons View entry for IONA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
J N WYLDE908381/1901, Sail, 199 tons View entry for J N WYLDE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JAMES RYAN833034/1882, Sail, 48 tons View entry for JAMES RYAN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JESSIE M VOGLER833113/1884, Sail, 77 tons View entry for JESSIE M VOGLER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
JOHN B DOLLIVER7413011/1877, Sail, 11 tons View entry for JOHN B DOLLIVER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
L HOULETT833192/1886, Sail, 74 tons View entry for L HOULETT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
LOTTIE833164/1885, Sail, 81 tons View entry for LOTTIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
M B DALY833175/1885, Sail, 135 tons View entry for M B DALY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MAY GIBBON908292/1890, Sail, 133 tons View entry for MAY GIBBON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MAZURKA833153/1885, Sail, 83 tons View entry for MAZURKA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MILETUS908231/1888, Sail, 96 tons View entry for MILETUS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MINNIE MAC833023/1882, Sail, 76 tons View entry for MINNIE MAC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MOSS GLEN833124/1884, Sail, 150 tons View entry for MOSS GLEN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MYANZAR713644/1875, Sail, 984 tons View entry for MYANZAR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
MYOSOTIS833102/1884, Sail, 93 tons View entry for MYOSOTIS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
NYANZA908274/1889, Sail, 122 tons View entry for NYANZA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ON TIME833054/1883, Sail, 115 tons View entry for ON TIME in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ORA908281/1890, Sail, 198 tons View entry for ORA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
PERCY ROY1163511/1903, Sail, 99 tons View entry for PERCY ROY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
RACHEL H BOYD908362/1900, Sail, 119 tons View entry for RACHEL H BOYD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
RONALD H C908322/1893, Sail, 55 tons View entry for RONALD H C in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SALVOR908211/1887, Steam, 35 tons View entry for SALVOR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SAN BLAS908331/1894, Sail, 199 tons View entry for SAN BLAS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
SIROCCO833091/1884, Sail, 176 tons View entry for SIROCCO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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