Ships shown as registered at Annapolis, 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  ? .

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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsSort by year of registryABs Crew lists Link
A B STRONACH696858/1874, Sail, 493 tons View entry for A B STRONACH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A ELLIOTT754253/1878, Sail, 30 tons View entry for A ELLIOTT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A F DAVISON1260175/1909, Sail, 503 tons View entry for A F DAVISON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A PORTER696774/1873, Sail, 170 tons View entry for A PORTER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A T832634/1884, Sail, 123 tons View entry for A T in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
A W LONGMIRE1384373/1919, Steam, 60 tons View entry for A W LONGMIRE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADA B1588584/1937, Motor, 13 tons View entry for ADA B in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADA H HALLS574811871, Sail, 158 tons View entry for ADA H HALLS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADAH520371865, Sail, 125 tons View entry for ADAH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADELIA574701869, Sail, 163 tons View entry for ADELIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADONIS1119993/1903, Sail, 316 tons View entry for ADONIS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT D MILLS1120005/1903, Sail, 326 tons View entry for ALBERT D MILLS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBUERA696825/1874, Sail, 655 tons View entry for ALBUERA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALERT696933/1876, Sail, 28 tons View entry for ALERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER MCLEOD422302/1862, Sail, 109 tons View entry for ALEXANDER MCLEOD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED832587/1883, Sail, 22 tons View entry for ALFRED in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALGOMAC1588529/1935, Motor, 15 tons View entry for ALGOMAC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE LONGMIRE1260195/1916, Steam, 503 tons View entry for ALICE LONGMIRE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE MAUD STONE422281860, Sail, 38 tons View entry for ALICE MAUD STONE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE MILLS422346/1862, Sail, 48 tons View entry for ALICE MILLS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALMIA480341863, Sail, 28 tons View entry for ALMIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANGELA FERN1975062/1958, Motor, 26 tons View entry for ANGELA FERN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNA520321865, Sail, 88 tons View entry for ANNA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNA H1975083/1958, Motor, 2 tons View entry for ANNA H in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNAPOLIS696763/1873, Sail, 914 tons View entry for ANNAPOLIS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE LAURIE418041858, Sail, 37 tons View entry for ANNIE LAURIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNIE LAURIE422351863, Sail, 90 tons View entry for ANNIE LAURIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARCTIC696803/1874, Sail, 274 tons View entry for ARCTIC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARCTURUS6968912/1874, Sail, 723 tons View entry for ARCTURUS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARIOLA1504531/1926, Motor, 15 tons View entry for ARIOLA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR & RUTH1908473/1950, Motor, 29 tons View entry for ARTHUR & RUTH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ATTA574861872, Sail, 118 tons View entry for ATTA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ATWOOD696955/1876, Sail, 118 tons View entry for ATWOOD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
B B HARDWICK1000181/1897, Sail, 123 tons View entry for B B HARDWICK in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BALTIC7541610/1876, Sail, 438 tons View entry for BALTIC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BARBARA & LORNA1975095/1958, Motor, 12 tons View entry for BARBARA & LORNA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BARTHOLDI1000041/1891, Sail, 299 tons View entry for BARTHOLDI in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BAY BIRD1504552/1935, Motor, 18 tons View entry for BAY BIRD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BAY KING1588551/1936, Motor, 21 tons View entry for BAY KING in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BAY QUEEN15885411/1935, Motor, 21 tons View entry for BAY QUEEN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE696836/1874, Sail, 522 tons View entry for BEATRICE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BEECHLAND1384312/1917, Sail, 420 tons View entry for BEECHLAND in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BETH SAIDA1704641/1946, Motor, 29 tons View entry for BETH SAIDA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BETT1704651/1947, Motor, 29 tons View entry for BETT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BIG BEN1975021/1957, Motor, 7 tons View entry for BIG BEN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BLAIR ATHOL480411864, Sail, 425 tons View entry for BLAIR ATHOL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE418011858, Sail, 102 tons View entry for BLANCHE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BLANCHE H COLLINS1384332/1918, Sail, 503 tons View entry for BLANCHE H COLLINS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRAZIL520451866, Sail, 555 tons View entry for BRAZIL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRIAN L1957166/1953, Motor, 27 tons View entry for BRIAN L in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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