Ships shown as registered at Dundalk in the Mercantile Navy List for 1857

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 MNL Crew lists Link
ANN17019 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ASTORIA17009 View entry for ASTORIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH TOKEN17010 View entry for BRITISH TOKEN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE1459 View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CONTENT17022 View entry for CONTENT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DUKE OF WELLINGTON17014 View entry for DUKE OF WELLINGTON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DUNDALK1571 View entry for DUNDALK in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DUNDALK17017 View entry for DUNDALK in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EARL OF ERNE22810 View entry for EARL OF ERNE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE17032 View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
GUESS12066 View entry for GUESS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HERO3502 View entry for HERO in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JAMES WATT17026 View entry for JAMES WATT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JOHANNES9232 View entry for JOHANNES in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JOHN CLIFTON1281 View entry for JOHN CLIFTON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LISKA17002 View entry for LISKA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET17021 View entry for MARGARET in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARY STEWART17013 View entry for MARY STEWART in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
PRIDE OF ERIN17018 View entry for PRIDE OF ERIN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
RAMSEY17007 View entry for RAMSEY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ROBERT & MARY9283 View entry for ROBERT & MARY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ROBERT HENRY1346 View entry for ROBERT HENRY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
SAINT GEORGE17029 View entry for SAINT GEORGE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
SIR WILLIAM WALLACE17020 View entry for SIR WILLIAM WALLACE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
THOMAS17005 View entry for THOMAS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
VENTURE8812 View entry for VENTURE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
VENTURE9319 View entry for VENTURE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
WARREE1468 View entry for WARREE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
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