Ships shown as registered at Dundee 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
ABANA887032/1852, Sail, 215 tons View entry for ABANA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ABERCRAIG1109953/1902, Steam, 162 tons View entry for ABERCRAIG in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ABERCRAIG1662097/1939, Motor, 445 tons View entry for ABERCRAIG in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ABERTAY7520716/1877, Sail, 117 tons View entry for ABERTAY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ABERTAY1662063/1939, Sail, 268 tons View entry for ABERTAY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ACORN259751855, Sail, 308 tons View entry for ACORN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADRIATIC192881857, Sail, 302 tons View entry for ADRIATIC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE1187466/1905, Steam, 17 tons View entry for ADVANCE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADVICE1855813/1825, Sail, 324 tons View entry for ADVICE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AGGIE1109892/1901, Steam, 44 tons View entry for AGGIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AGNES64882/1856, Sail, 69 tons View entry for AGNES in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AGNES DAVIDSON458261864, Sail, 97 tons View entry for AGNES DAVIDSON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AGRIGENTO639801870, Steam, 743 tons View entry for AGRIGENTO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AID71341840, Sail, 88 tons View entry for AID in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AIRLIE725458/1875, Sail, 1500 tons View entry for AIRLIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AIRLIE7518926/1876, Sail, 237 tons View entry for AIRLIE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AKINDO458121863, Sail, 369 tons View entry for AKINDO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBANIA203691858, Sail, 267 tons View entry for ALBANIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBANY582321867, Sail, 498 tons View entry for ALBANY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBATROSS150911856, Sail, 515 tons View entry for ALBATROSS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALBERT72281844, Sail, 127 tons View entry for ALBERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER72481853, Sail, 324 tons View entry for ALEXANDER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER137931852, Sail, 391 tons View entry for ALEXANDER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER150941857, Sail, 268 tons View entry for ALEXANDER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER458211864, Steam, 435 tons View entry for ALEXANDER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER LIDDLE269201838, Sail, 165 tons View entry for ALEXANDER LIDDLE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE11873513/1903, Steam, 65 tons View entry for ALICE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALICE TAYLOR992049/1891, Steam, 330 tons View entry for ALICE TAYLOR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA451981863, Sail, 152 tons View entry for ALPHA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AMETHYST786914/1879, Steam, 601 tons View entry for AMETHYST in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AMOOR582381868, Sail, 317 tons View entry for AMOOR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AMOY294641862, Sail, 299 tons View entry for AMOY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANDROMEDA137121853, Sail, 345 tons View entry for ANDROMEDA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANGLIA458161863, Steam, 499 tons View entry for ANGLIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANGUS1187373/1904, Steam, 2320 tons View entry for ANGUS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANGUS14470311/1921, Steam, 271 tons View entry for ANGUS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANGUS1447063/1922, Steam, 102 tons View entry for ANGUS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN71981849, Sail, 101 tons View entry for ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN72051836, Sail, 48 tons View entry for ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN MILN72021841, Sail, 564 tons View entry for ANN MILN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANTARTICO1233373/1911, Steam, 283 tons View entry for ANTARTICO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANTELOPE71791839, Sail, 31 tons View entry for ANTELOPE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARBROATH1447151/1935, Motor, 289 tons View entry for ARBROATH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARBUTUS458281865, Sail, 318 tons View entry for ARBUTUS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARCHER71451841, Sail, 85 tons View entry for ARCHER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARCTIC525781867, Steam, 439 tons View entry for ARCTIC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARCTIC725436/1875, Steam, 522 tons View entry for ARCTIC in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARCTURUS249731854, Sail, 212 tons View entry for ARCTURUS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARDLE934789/1888, Steam, 794 tons View entry for ARDLE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARDOUR525731866, Sail, 263 tons View entry for ARDOUR in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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