Ships shown as registered at Stockton in the Appropriation Books

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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Ship Sort by name Official number Sort by official number DetailsSort by year of registryABs Crew lists Link
ADDISON1221518/1850, Sail, 242 tons View entry for ADDISON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ADVANCE5711854, Steam, 224 tons View entry for ADVANCE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALCHYMIST17431854, Sail, 275 tons View entry for ALCHYMIST in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALERT62161855, Sail, 88 tons View entry for ALERT in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALEXANDER18111853, Sail, 112 tons View entry for ALEXANDER in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALLERTON PACKET62091852, Sail, 155 tons View entry for ALLERTON PACKET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ALOUETTE1356074/1924, Motor, 6 tons View entry for ALOUETTE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AMELIA62691851, Sail, 158 tons View entry for AMELIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN62511854, Sail, 217 tons View entry for ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN2383515/1846, Sail, 172 tons View entry for ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANN2865427/1860, Steam, 467 tons View entry for ANN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ANNA MARIA62441855, Sail, 24 tons View entry for ANNA MARIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARGO630710/1852, Sail, 227 tons View entry for ARGO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARIEL147231854, Sail, 383 tons View entry for ARIEL in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARK18121848, Sail, 178 tons View entry for ARK in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARROW2865222/1860, Steam, 23 tons View entry for ARROW in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ARTHUR HEAD959274/1891, Steam, 1887 tons View entry for ARTHUR HEAD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
ASHFIELD675102/1878, Steam, 994 tons View entry for ASHFIELD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
AUCKLAND62011840, Sail, 155 tons View entry for AUCKLAND in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BARLBY997285/1895, Steam, 1599 tons View entry for BARLBY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BEATRICE162271857, Steam, 253 tons View entry for BEATRICE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BELLE232621853, Sail, 144 tons View entry for BELLE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BLENHEIM62711844, Sail, 223 tons View entry for BLENHEIM in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BLUE SEA II1065033/1897, Sail, 7 tons View entry for BLUE SEA II in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BORODINE207991858, Steam, 95 tons View entry for BORODINE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BOWESFIELD675148/1880, Steam, 992 tons View entry for BOWESFIELD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRANSTONS160381850, Sail, 172 tons View entry for BRANSTONS in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRIDGET286591/1863, Sail, 116 tons View entry for BRIDGET in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH DOMINION631922/1853, Steam, 23 tons View entry for BRITISH DOMINION in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH MONARCH62121852, Sail, 361 tons View entry for BRITISH MONARCH in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRITISH QUEEN1048458/1840, Steam, 39 tons View entry for BRITISH QUEEN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BRITON232041854, Sail, 105 tons View entry for BRITON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
BUSHBY997211/1894, Steam, 2107 tons View entry for BUSHBY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CALEDONIA62021850, Sail, 187 tons View entry for CALEDONIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CALPE62761844, Sail, 103 tons View entry for CALPE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CARIB846421/1882, Steam, 912 tons View entry for CARIB in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE CHISHOLM260871852, Sail, 366 tons View entry for CAROLINE CHISHOLM in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CAROLINE ROBERT DE MASSY846501/1888, Steam, 1130 tons View entry for CAROLINE ROBERT DE MASSY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CARPERBY997241/1895, Steam, 1344 tons View entry for CARPERBY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CASTLEFIELD675134/1879, Steam, 1090 tons View entry for CASTLEFIELD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CASTLEFIELD959241/1890, Steam, 1483 tons View entry for CASTLEFIELD in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CATO62451855, Sail, 272 tons View entry for CATO in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CHIEFTAIN583230/1847, Steam, 17 tons View entry for CHIEFTAIN in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLAUDIA1065022/1897, Steam, 531 tons View entry for CLAUDIA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLAYTON13071855, Sail, 279 tons View entry for CLAYTON in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLEMENTINA14941855, Sail, 243 tons View entry for CLEMENTINA in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLEVELAND162281857, Steam, 443 tons View entry for CLEVELAND in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
CLEVELAND532391870, Steam, 35 tons View entry for CLEVELAND in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
COLEBY1242741/1907, Steam, 2320 tons View entry for COLEBY in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
COLERIDGE675112/1879, Steam, 714 tons View entry for COLERIDGE in the Appropriation Books MHACLIPMore...
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