Ships shown as registered at Dartmouth in the Mercantile Navy List for 1860

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 DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ABEONA22278Sail, 100 tons View entry for ABEONA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ADELAIDE25656Sail, 73 tons View entry for ADELAIDE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ADELINA8442Sail, 57 tons View entry for ADELINA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AGATHA6507Sail, 90 tons View entry for AGATHA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AGENORIA4445Sail, 75 tons View entry for AGENORIA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AJAX27294Sail, 37 tons View entry for AJAX in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALARM11011Sail, 79 tons View entry for ALARM in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALICE24368Sail, 123 tons View entry for ALICE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALICE27754Sail, 40 tons View entry for ALICE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALLINGTON9480Sail, 37 tons View entry for ALLINGTON in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA4413Sail, 140 tons View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA7566Sail, 28 tons View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMELIA19948Sail, 28 tons View entry for AMELIA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMY27745Sail, 161 tons View entry for AMY in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANDANTE4485Sail, 98 tons View entry for ANDANTE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN4464Sail, 17 tons View entry for ANN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN4517Sail, 29 tons View entry for ANN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN4562Sail, 27 tons View entry for ANN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN4566Sail, 24 tons View entry for ANN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN & MARIA16070Sail, 103 tons View entry for ANN & MARIA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNA MARIA23892Sail, 31 tons View entry for ANNA MARIA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE GRANT19057Sail, 148 tons View entry for ANNIE GRANT in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE1590Sail, 85 tons View entry for ANTELOPE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARBITRATOR4515Sail, 41 tons View entry for ARBITRATOR in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARCTURUS4462Sail, 29 tons View entry for ARCTURUS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARETHUSA9475Sail, 122 tons View entry for ARETHUSA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARGO4530Sail, 99 tons View entry for ARGO in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARK1703Sail, 124 tons View entry for ARK in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARK4524Sail, 30 tons View entry for ARK in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARROW20837Sail, 38 tons View entry for ARROW in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARROW21869Sail, 118 tons View entry for ARROW in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AUGUSTA33785Sail, 76 tons View entry for AUGUSTA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AUSPICIOUS7672Sail, 30 tons View entry for AUSPICIOUS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AVERY13591Sail, 343 tons View entry for AVERY in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
AZORIAN LASS4559Sail, 105 tons View entry for AZORIAN LASS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BARBARA90Sail, 93 tons View entry for BARBARA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BARON CAMBER8233Sail, 26 tons View entry for BARON CAMBER in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BEACON3327Sail, 112 tons View entry for BEACON in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BEEZALEEL15294Sail, 129 tons View entry for BEEZALEEL in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BELLA DONNA39059Sail, 216 tons View entry for BELLA DONNA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BELLE27750Sail, 148 tons View entry for BELLE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY5631Sail, 72 tons View entry for BETSEY in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSY4482Sail, 136 tons View entry for BETSY in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BEZER8375Sail, 86 tons View entry for BEZER in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BIDEFORD11589Sail, 129 tons View entry for BIDEFORD in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BILLOW4558Sail, 145 tons View entry for BILLOW in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BITTERN20833Sail, 35 tons View entry for BITTERN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BLUE JACKET21341Sail, 153 tons View entry for BLUE JACKET in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BONITA16033Sail, 77 tons View entry for BONITA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BONITO21338Sail, 37 tons View entry for BONITO in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
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