Ships shown as registered at Faversham 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.

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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ABEONA11235 View entry for ABEONA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVE5067 View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVE10984 View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ACTIVE26538 View entry for ACTIVE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AGNES14637 View entry for AGNES in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALARM9773 View entry for ALARM in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALBION9763 View entry for ALBION in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALBION11229 View entry for ALBION in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED9089 View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED23636 View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALICE9768 View entry for ALICE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALICE39012 View entry for ALICE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALLAN9781 View entry for ALLAN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALMA11296 View entry for ALMA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANEMONE17826 View entry for ANEMONE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN7549 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN9771 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN9797 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN11300 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN & SOPHIA26278 View entry for ANN & SOPHIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNA ELIZA7539 View entry for ANNA ELIZA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNE23846 View entry for ANNE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARMIN11221 View entry for ARMIN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY9777 View entry for BETSEY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY9786 View entry for BETSEY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSY9093 View entry for BETSY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA9790 View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA26123 View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH QUEEN26657 View entry for BRITISH QUEEN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BROTHERS5265 View entry for BROTHERS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BURSTAL25499 View entry for BURSTAL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA11279 View entry for CALEDONIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CANTERBURY290 View entry for CANTERBURY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CANTON451 View entry for CANTON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE8256 View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE9104 View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CELERITY24925 View entry for CELERITY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHAMPION11234 View entry for CHAMPION in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHANCE5056 View entry for CHANCE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES & ELLEN10993 View entry for CHARLES & ELLEN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES & KATE11278 View entry for CHARLES & KATE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE11250 View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COMMERCE11232 View entry for COMMERCE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CONFIDENCE11247 View entry for CONFIDENCE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CONTEST9800 View entry for CONTEST in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CRESSWELL22447 View entry for CRESSWELL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CRUIZER9787 View entry for CRUIZER in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CUMBERLAND9783 View entry for CUMBERLAND in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CZARINA9769 View entry for CZARINA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DAPHNE11260 View entry for DAPHNE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
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