Ships shown as registered at Newhaven in the Mercantile Navy List for 1870

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 DetailsMNL Crew lists Link
ADA19017Sail View entry for ADA in MNL 1870, page 4 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRA45653Steam View entry for ALEXANDRA in MNL 1870, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDRIA45655Sail View entry for ALEXANDRIA in MNL 1870, page 13 MHACLIPMore...
BARBARA19042Sail View entry for BARBARA in MNL 1870, page 39 MHACLIPMore...
BORDEAUX50314Steam View entry for BORDEAUX in MNL 1870, page 49 MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE17569Sail View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1870, page 104 MHACLIPMore...
ENERGY27825Sail View entry for ENERGY in MNL 1870, page 124 MHACLIPMore...
FANNY63041Sail View entry for FANNY in MNL 1870, page 135 MHACLIPMore...
FAVORITE19041Sail View entry for FAVORITE in MNL 1870, page 136 MHACLIPMore...
FRIENDS50312Sail View entry for FRIENDS in MNL 1870, page 148 MHACLIPMore...
GALWAY LASS23615Sail View entry for GALWAY LASS in MNL 1870, page 150 MHACLIPMore...
HARRIETT19010Sail View entry for HARRIETT in MNL 1870, page 169 MHACLIPMore...
HENRY11062Sail View entry for HENRY in MNL 1870, page 174 MHACLIPMore...
HENRY BENNESS19014Sail View entry for HENRY BENNESS in MNL 1870, page 174 MHACLIPMore...
INDEX16031Sail View entry for INDEX in MNL 1870, page 185 MHACLIPMore...
INO24744Sail View entry for INO in MNL 1870, page 186 MHACLIPMore...
INTEGRITY27823Sail View entry for INTEGRITY in MNL 1870, page 187 MHACLIPMore...
JOHN GRAY13730Sail View entry for JOHN GRAY in MNL 1870, page 205 MHACLIPMore...
LORD HARDINGE588Sail View entry for LORD HARDINGE in MNL 1870, page 233 MHACLIPMore...
LYONS16991Steam View entry for LYONS in MNL 1870, page 238 MHACLIPMore...
MARSEILLES50311Steam View entry for MARSEILLES in MNL 1870, page 251 MHACLIPMore...
MARY ANN2937Sail View entry for MARY ANN in MNL 1870, page 256 MHACLIPMore...
MERCHANT5565Sail View entry for MERCHANT in MNL 1870, page 266 MHACLIPMore...
NEWHAVEN50318Sail View entry for NEWHAVEN in MNL 1870, page 281 MHACLIPMore...
NORMANDY45652Steam View entry for NORMANDY in MNL 1870, page 284 MHACLIPMore...
OLATO46819Sail View entry for OLATO in MNL 1870, page 288 MHACLIPMore...
ORLEANS16992Steam View entry for ORLEANS in MNL 1870, page 291 MHACLIPMore...
REGINA9534Sail View entry for REGINA in MNL 1870, page 323 MHACLIPMore...
RICHARD & EMILY27824Sail View entry for RICHARD & EMILY in MNL 1870, page 327 MHACLIPMore...
ROSEBUD50313Sail View entry for ROSEBUD in MNL 1870, page 333 MHACLIPMore...
SAPPHO5970Sail View entry for SAPPHO in MNL 1870, page 342 MHACLIPMore...
SERF50319Sail View entry for SERF in MNL 1870, page 351 MHACLIPMore...
SOUTH DOWNS17570Sail View entry for SOUTH DOWNS in MNL 1870, page 359 MHACLIPMore...
SUSSEX45651Steam View entry for SUSSEX in MNL 1870, page 371 MHACLIPMore...
SUSSEX MAID11064Sail View entry for SUSSEX MAID in MNL 1870, page 371 MHACLIPMore...
TAGUS19039Sail View entry for TAGUS in MNL 1870, page 373 MHACLIPMore...
TAURUS2652Sail View entry for TAURUS in MNL 1870, page 375 MHACLIPMore...
THREE BROTHERS18075Sail View entry for THREE BROTHERS in MNL 1870, page 381 MHACLIPMore...
TOPSY19012Sail View entry for TOPSY in MNL 1870, page 383 MHACLIPMore...
UNION7914Sail View entry for UNION in MNL 1870, page 391 MHACLIPMore...
VICTORIA22673Steam View entry for VICTORIA in MNL 1870, page 397 MHACLIPMore...
WALLANDS50316Sail View entry for WALLANDS in MNL 1870, page 404 MHACLIPMore...
WARBLINGTON48850Sail View entry for WARBLINGTON in MNL 1870, page 405 MHACLIPMore...
WONDER27822Sail View entry for WONDER in MNL 1870, page 418 MHACLIPMore...
ZENOBIA7123Sail View entry for ZENOBIA in MNL 1870, page 422 MHACLIPMore...
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