Ships shown as registered at Fowey 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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ABEL23287 View entry for ABEL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALERT11411 View entry for ALERT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALICE8397 View entry for ALICE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALPHA5712 View entry for ALPHA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMELIA11503 View entry for AMELIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMITY11434 View entry for AMITY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN11495 View entry for ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN & ELIZABETH5616 View entry for ANN & ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN & ELIZABETH11477 View entry for ANN & ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN ELIZABETH17677 View entry for ANN ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANT11492 View entry for ANT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BEDWELTY20922 View entry for BEDWELTY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BREEZE11500 View entry for BREEZE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRILLIANT352 View entry for BRILLIANT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRILLIANT11499 View entry for BRILLIANT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAPELLA39058 View entry for CAPELLA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE13873 View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CATHARINE13043 View entry for CATHARINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE1436 View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE11420 View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE26413 View entry for CATHERINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CATHERINE BOLAND1620 View entry for CATHERINE BOLAND in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLESTOWN11419 View entry for CHARLESTOWN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE & HANNAH11449 View entry for CHARLOTTE & HANNAH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE & MARIA11405 View entry for CHARLOTTE & MARIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE ANN11467 View entry for CHARLOTTE ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHASE3291 View entry for CHASE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CLIMAX11443 View entry for CLIMAX in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COMMERCE11504 View entry for COMMERCE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CORK PACKET19026 View entry for CORK PACKET in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DART15812 View entry for DART in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DILIGENT18715 View entry for DILIGENT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DUPORTH11478 View entry for DUPORTH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EAST CORNWALL11451 View entry for EAST CORNWALL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EIRENE13053 View entry for EIRENE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA26776 View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA HANSON17653 View entry for ELIZA HANSON in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH11453 View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH11458 View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH & ANN11406 View entry for ELIZABETH & ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH DAVY9487 View entry for ELIZABETH DAVY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH MARY ANN32991 View entry for ELIZABETH MARY ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELLEN FRANCES19206 View entry for ELLEN FRANCES in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EMBLEM14046 View entry for EMBLEM in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EMERALD11444 View entry for EMERALD in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EMERALD11474 View entry for EMERALD in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ENGINEER11457 View entry for ENGINEER in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ENTERPRISE14412 View entry for ENTERPRISE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ENVOY8546 View entry for ENVOY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FANCY11486 View entry for FANCY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
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