Ships shown as registered at Shoreham in the Mercantile Navy List for 1860

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, 17 tons View entry for ADA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ADUR10073Steam, 12 tons, 35 hp View entry for ADUR in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALBION10071Sail, 16 tons View entry for ALBION in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALBION13638Sail, 24 tons View entry for ALBION in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALERT20643Sail, 56 tons View entry for ALERT in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALFRED3206Sail, 199 tons View entry for ALFRED in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALICE HAWTHORN17389Sail, 333 tons View entry for ALICE HAWTHORN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ALMA17388Sail, 218 tons View entry for ALMA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN13614Sail, 171 tons View entry for ANN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN23099Sail, 54 tons View entry for ANN in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANN ELIZA10086Sail, 16 tons View entry for ANN ELIZA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ANNE2697Sail, 169 tons View entry for ANNE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL392Sail, 203 tons View entry for ARIEL in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ATTWOOD3528Sail, 207 tons View entry for ATTWOOD in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BLUEBELL25585Sail, 191 tons View entry for BLUEBELL in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRENDA22307Sail, 185 tons View entry for BRENDA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITAIN'S PRIDE10088Sail, 166 tons View entry for BRITAIN'S PRIDE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BRITANNIA17393Sail, 228 tons View entry for BRITANNIA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BROWN SEA CASTLE10082Sail, 19 tons View entry for BROWN SEA CASTLE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
BUSY BEE13642Sail, 61 tons View entry for BUSY BEE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CARARA26147Sail, 195 tons View entry for CARARA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHAMPION1918Sail, 198 tons View entry for CHAMPION in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES14180Sail, 254 tons View entry for CHARLES in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLES STUART23119Sail, 181 tons View entry for CHARLES STUART in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHARLOTTE13606Sail, 36 tons View entry for CHARLOTTE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CHRISTIANA10083Sail, 17 tons View entry for CHRISTIANA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CLIO39256Sail, 217 tons View entry for CLIO in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
CORSAIR5055Sail, 136 tons View entry for CORSAIR in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
DIANA13646Sail, 8 tons View entry for DIANA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
DON14882Steam, 18 tons, 28 hp View entry for DON in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ECHO5236Sail, 182 tons View entry for ECHO in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE13649Sail, 13 tons View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ECLIPSE14639Sail, 180 tons View entry for ECLIPSE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA10072Sail, 17 tons View entry for ELIZA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA EMMA5072Sail, 173 tons View entry for ELIZA EMMA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZA JANE15418Sail, 213 tons View entry for ELIZA JANE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ELIZABETH13617Sail, 58 tons View entry for ELIZABETH in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
EMPRESS10087Sail, 93 tons View entry for EMPRESS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
ENGLISH ROSE13060Sail, 146 tons View entry for ENGLISH ROSE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FAIRY13625Sail, 167 tons View entry for FAIRY in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FANNY14021Sail, 255 tons View entry for FANNY in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FLETA25322Sail, 175 tons View entry for FLETA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FLORENCE7915Sail, 26 tons View entry for FLORENCE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
FOUR SISTERS13615Sail, 113 tons View entry for FOUR SISTERS in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GALATEA13609Sail, 110 tons View entry for GALATEA in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GEORGE13618Sail, 191 tons View entry for GEORGE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GLEAM25213Sail, 134 tons View entry for GLEAM in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GOS HAWK26362Sail, 198 tons View entry for GOS HAWK in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GOVERNOR14638Sail, 365 tons View entry for GOVERNOR in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
GULNARE5085Sail, 127 tons View entry for GULNARE in MNL 1860, page  MHACLIPMore...
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