Ships shown as registered at Rye 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  ? .

Records for Rye may also be found under Hastings.

Click a port name to see the records for that port

To show records for all the ports together, please click here

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ALERT20205 View entry for ALERT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
AMITY20211 View entry for AMITY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANDERIDA8488 View entry for ANDERIDA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN ELIZABETH13334 View entry for ANN ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNA LOUISA13815 View entry for ANNA LOUISA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNE & MARIA19046 View entry for ANNE & MARIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BETSEY12737 View entry for BETSEY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
BURFIELD BROTHERS118 View entry for BURFIELD BROTHERS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE23687 View entry for CAROLINE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CASTOR20227 View entry for CASTOR in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CAUTIOUS17323 View entry for CAUTIOUS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COLLINGWOOD7732 View entry for COLLINGWOOD in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COLONEL EVANS20221 View entry for COLONEL EVANS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
COMMODORE24479 View entry for COMMODORE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CONTENDER13337 View entry for CONTENDER in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
CRYSTAL PALACE12748 View entry for CRYSTAL PALACE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DELIGHT20210 View entry for DELIGHT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
DESPATCH20204 View entry for DESPATCH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EFFORT23974 View entry for EFFORT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH22483 View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELLA NANCY20224 View entry for ELLA NANCY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
EMILY9453 View entry for EMILY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
ERIN20230 View entry for ERIN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FAGG19011 View entry for FAGG in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FARMERS DELIGHT20229 View entry for FARMERS DELIGHT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FLORA20222 View entry for FLORA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
FOX9452 View entry for FOX in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
GOOD INTENT20233 View entry for GOOD INTENT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HAPPY RETURN20217 View entry for HAPPY RETURN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HARBINGER11407 View entry for HARBINGER in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HARRIET & SAMUEL19043 View entry for HARRIET & SAMUEL in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HASTINGS20206 View entry for HASTINGS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
HERO20218 View entry for HERO in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
IMPETUOUS19009 View entry for IMPETUOUS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
IMPULSE19024 View entry for IMPULSE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JAMES26113 View entry for JAMES in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JANE4881 View entry for JANE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JOHN & BETSEY9454 View entry for JOHN & BETSEY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
JOHN & MARY12747 View entry for JOHN & MARY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
KENNETT23409 View entry for KENNETT in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LAMPLIGHTER20202 View entry for LAMPLIGHTER in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LEONARD20234 View entry for LEONARD in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LIVELY13333 View entry for LIVELY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LONDON OF HASTINGS22466 View entry for LONDON OF HASTINGS in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
LUCY20235 View entry for LUCY in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARGARET & ELIZABETH12736 View entry for MARGARET & ELIZABETH in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARY & THEODOSIA19038 View entry for MARY & THEODOSIA in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARY ANN20228 View entry for MARY ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARY ANN20236 View entry for MARY ANN in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
MARY ANN MELVILLE22452 View entry for MARY ANN MELVILLE in MNL 1857, page  MHACLIPMore...
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