UK Port Numbers: "MARINERS
THE WEBSITE OF THE MARINERS MAILING LIST.

UK PORT NUMBERS
(With grateful acknowledgement to
'My Ancestor was a Merchant Seaman'
Christopher T. Watts and Michael J. Watts,
ISBN 0-901878-73-1)

These numbers were used as abbreviations for the names of the ports in the records of the Registrar General of Shipping And Seamen. They were also used as a shorthand for ships' port of registry. Numbers 1 - 108 were introduced in 1835 and further numbers, up to 161 were gradually introduced after 1845. "

Summary of BT 113

Admiralty and Board of Trade: General Registry and Record Office of Seamen: Register of Seamen's Tickets


Covering dates
1845-1854
Scope and content
Numerical registers, kept by the General Registry and Record Office of Seamen, of the tickets required by all British merchant seamen before sailing.

On the ticket were recorded the seaman's name, date and place of birth, date and capacity of first going to sea and capacity since, the ships he had served in the Royal Navy, if any, and his capacity, his current employment at sea, and home address. The registers in this series and in BT 114 are far from complete and many numbers in BT 113 have no names or details marked up.


Series details for BT 113

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Admiralty and Board of Trade: General Registry and Record Office of Seamen: Register of Seamen's Tickets
1845-1854