List of White Star Line ships
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The following is a list of ships operated by the White Star Line.
1846–1869
Ship | Built | White Star service | GRT | Notes | Image |
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Elizabeth | 1842 | 1846-18?? | 1600 | Brig, Liverpool -> Montreal | |
David Cannon | 1847 | 1852-1854 | 1331 | Wrecked Jun 1854 at Halifax | |
Iowa | 1849 | 1849-1853 | 879 | Sold 1853, missing 1854 en route from Liverpool to Australia | |
Bhurtpoor | 1851 | 1851-1853 | 978 | Wrecked 18 September 1853 Wexford | |
Tantivy | 1851 | 1852-1868 | 1040 | ||
Jessie Munn | 1852 | 1852-1863 | 875 | Sold 1863, abandoned 1868 | |
Fitzjames | 1852 | 1852-1868 | 1195 | Broken up between 1895 and 1905 | |
Defence | 18?? | 1853-18?? | ? | ||
Tayleur | 1854 | 1854 | 4,000 | Sank on maiden voyage. | |
Arabian | 1852 | 1854-1866 | 1068 | Scrapped in 1866. | |
Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help) | 1853 | 1854–1878 | 2305 | Sold 1866, hulk 1882 | |
Emma | 1853 | 1854-1858 | 1049 | ||
Golden Era | 1853 | 1854-1858 | 1557 | Lost 22 June 1858 | |
Mermaid | 1853 | 1854-1862 | 1321 | Wrecked in 1883 | |
White Star | 1854 | 1855-1866 | 2340 | Sold 1866; Wrecked off the Irish coast in 1883 [1] | |
Shepherdess | 1855 | 1855-1860 | 1126 | Sank 15 September 1860 | |
King of Algeria | 1856 | 1856-18?? | 1707 | ||
Royal Saxon | 1857 | 1857-18?? | 1109 | ||
Annie Wilson | 1854 | 1857-18?? | 1191 | Abandoned 1867 | |
Prince of the Seas | 1853 | 1858-1861 | 1326 | Burnt Nov 1861 at Anchorage | |
Blue Jacket | 1854 | 1858-1863 | 986 | Wrecked 1863 at Saugor Island | |
Carntyne | 1852 | 1859-1863 | 940 | Lost 1863 | |
Shalimar | 1854 | 1860-18?? | 1402 | Sold 1869 | |
Electric | 1857 | 1860-18?? | 1106 | Condemned 1864 | |
Ocean Home | 1858 | 1860-18?? | 596 | Sold 1863 | |
Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help) | 1858 | 1860-1869 | 1790 | Burnt 9 March 1869 near Falklands | |
Lord Raglan | 1854 | 1860-18?? | 1904 | Missing 26 February 1863 Liverpool -> Melbourne | |
Chariot of Fame | 1853 | 1861-18?? | 2050 | Abandoned Jan 1876 | |
Queen of the North | 1860 | 1862-1868 | 1668 | Taken over 1868 | |
Silistria | 1854 | 1862-?? | 1182 | Liverpool to Victoria BC route | |
Glendevon | 1862 | 1862-1870 | 954 | Sold 1870 | |
Donna Maria (ex-Beaconsfield) | 1862 | 1862-18?? | 810 | Lost 24 November 1877 | |
Cecilia | 1863 | 1863-1866 | 612 | Sold 1866 | |
Albert William | 1863 | 1863-18?? | 505 | Wrecked Sep 1900 | |
Royal Standard | 1863 | 1863-1867 | 1182 | Sold 1867 | |
Santon | 1863 | 1863-1866 | 511 | Sold 1866 | |
Ulcoats | 1863 | 1863-1874 | 671 | Missing 1874 | |
Tornado | 1852 | 1863-1867 | 1720 | Sold 1867 | |
Golden Sunset | 1863 | 1864-18?? | 628 | Wrecked 17 December 1866 | |
Sam Cearns | 1864 | 1864-1867 | 1422 | Sold Jan 1867 | |
W. H. Haselden | 1864 | 1864-1866 | 897 | Sold 1866 | |
Sirius | 1865 | 1865-1866 | 491 | Sold foreign 1866 |
1870–1889
Ship | Built | White Star service | GRT | Notes | Image | |
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Oceanic | 1870 | 1870–1895 | 3,707 | The first steamship for the White Star Line, and often referred to as the Mother of Modern Liners.[2] | ||
Atlantic | 1871 | 1871–1873 | 3,707 | Wrecked on the coast of Nova Scotia 1 April 1873 with the loss of 535 lives. | ||
Baltic | 1871 | 1871–1889 | 2,122 | Sold to the Holland America Line in 1889 and renamed Veendam. In 1898 she collided with a wreck and sank without loss of life. | ||
Tropic | 1871 | 1871–1873 | 2,122 | Sold in 1873 | ||
Asiatic | 1871 | 1871-1873 | 2,122 | Sold in 1873 | ||
Republic | 1872 | 1872-1889 | 3,984 | Sold in 1889, scrapped 1910. | ||
Adriatic | 1872 | 1872–1899 | 3,888 | Scrapped in 1899 | ||
Celtic | 1872 | 1872-1893 | 3,867 | Sold to the Danish Thingvalla Line and renamed Amerika. Broken up in 1898. | ||
Traffic | 1872 | 1872–1896 | 155 | Tender | ||
Belgic | 1873 | 1873–1888 | 2,652 | wrecked in 1884 | ||
Gaelic | 1873 | 1873–1896 | 2,685 | wrecked and scrapped in 1896 | ||
Britannic | 1874 | 1874–1903 | 5,004 | Scrapped in 1903 | ||
Germanic | 1875 | 1875–1903 | 5,008 | Sold to Turkey in 1908. Scrapped in 1950 | ||
Arabic | 1881 | 1881–1890 | 4,368 | Sold to the Holland America line in 1890 and renamed Spaarndam. Scrapped in 1901 | ||
Coptic | 1881 | 1881–1908 | 4,448 | |||
Doric | 1883 | 1883–1906 | 4,784 | |||
Ionic | 1883 | 1883–1900 | 4,753 | |||
Belgic | 1885 | 1885–1903 | 4,212 | |||
Gaelic | 1885 | 1885–1905 | 4,206 | Launched in 1885 by Harland & Wolff, serves White Star under Occidental and Oriental Steamship Co. charter, sold to Pacific SN Co., serves until 1907 under Callao, scrapped at Briton Ferry. | ||
Cufic | 1885 | 1885–1901 | 4,639 | sunk in 1919 | ||
Runic | 1889 | 1889–1895 | 5,043 | Later renamed the SS Imo, was involved in the Halifax explosion Wrecked on 30 November 1921 | ||
Teutonic | 1889 | 1889–1921 | 9,984 | First armed merchant cruiser and last White Star liner to hold the Blue Riband. |
1890–1899
Ship | Built | White Star service | GRT | Notes | Image |
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Majestic | 1890 | 1890–1914 | 9,965 | ||
Nomadic | 1891 | 1891–1903 | 5,749 | ||
Tauric | 1891 | 1891–1929 | 5,728 | ||
Magnetic | 1891 | 1891–1932 | 619 | Tender | |
Naronic | 1892 | 1892–1893 | 6,594 | Vanished at sea sometime after 11 February 1893. Sister ship of SS Bovic | |
Bovic | 1892 | 1892–1922 | 6,583 | ||
Gothic | 1893 | 1893–1906 | 7,755 | ||
Cevic | 1894 | 1894–1914 | 8,301 | ||
Pontic | 1894 | 1894–1930 | 394 | Tender | |
Georgic | 1895 | 1895–1916 | 10,077 | Scuttled by the SMS Möwe on 10 December 1916 | |
Delphic | 1897 | 1897–1917 | 8,273 | Torpedoed and sunk by UC-72 on 16 August 1917 | |
Cymric | 1898 | 1898–1916 | 13,096 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-20 on 8 May 1916 | |
Afric | 1898 | 1899–1917 | 11,948 | Torpedoed and sunk by UC-66 | |
Medic | 1899 | 1892–1921 | 11,973 | Sold, 1928 Sunk, 12 September 1942 | |
Persic | 1899 | 1899–1935 | 11,973 | ||
Oceanic | 1899 | 1899–1914 | 17,272 | Ran aground off, Foula, Shetland, 8 September 1914 |
1900–1909
Ship | Built | White Star service | GRT | Notes | Image |
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Runic | 1900 | 1900–1930 | 12,482 | Sold, 1930 Sunk, 21 September 1940 | |
Suevic | 1900 | 1900–1928 | 12,531 | Ran aground in 1907, bow removed to salvage the vessel. Bow rebuilt and vessel resumed service in 1908. Sold in 1928, Sunk on 1 April 1942 | |
Celtic | 1901 | 1901–1928 | 21,035 | First of the Big Four. Ran aground in 1928, scrapped on site. | |
Athenic | 1902 | 1902–1928 | 12,345 | ||
Corinthic | 1902 | 1902–1931 | 12,367 | ||
Ionic | 1903 | 1903–1934 | 12,352 | ||
Cedric | 1903 | 1903–1931 | 21,073 | Scrapped in 1932. | |
Victorian | 1895 | 1903–1904 | 8,825 | Renamed SS Russian Torpedoed and sunk on 14 December 1916 | |
Armenian | 1895 | 1903–1915 | 8,825 | Torpedoed and sank U-24 on 28 June 1915. | |
Arabic | 1903 | 1903–1915 | 15,801 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-24 on 19 August 1915 | |
Romanic | 1898 | 1903–1912 | 11,394 | Renamed SS Scandinavian | |
Cretic | 1903 | 1903–1904 | 13,507 | ||
Republic | 1903 | 1903–1909 | 15,400 | Sank following collision on 24 January 1909 | |
Canopic | 1900 | 1904–1925 | 12,268 | ||
Cufic | 1895 | 1904–1923 | 8,249 | Originally SS American | |
Tropic | 1896 | 1904–1923 | 8,249 | Originally SS European | |
Baltic | 1904 | 1904–1933 | 23,876 | Scrapped in 1933. | |
Gallic | 1894 | 1907–1913 | 12,352 | ||
Adriatic | 1907 | 1907–1935 | 24,541 | Scrapped in 1935. | |
Laurentic | 1908 | 1908–1917 | 14,892 | Sunk by mines 25 January 1917 | |
Megantic | 1909 | 1909–1933 | 14,878 |
1910–1919
Ship | Built | White Star service | GRT | Notes | Image |
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Zealandic | 1911 | 1911–1926 | 8,090 | Sold in 1939, it struck a sunken shipwreck off Cromer on 3 June 1941 and was later torpedoed by an E-boat. | |
Nomadic | 1911 | 1911–1925 | 1,273 | Tender (Note: only White Star Line vessel still existing) | |
Traffic | 1911 | 1911–1927 | 675 | Tender | |
Olympic | 1911 | 1911–1935 | 45,324 | Scrapped in 1935.[3] | |
Belgic | 1913 | 1911–1913 | 9,748 | ||
Titanic | 1912 | 1912 | 46,328 | Sank on her maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg | |
Ceramic | 1912 | 1913–1934 | 18,400 | Sold 1934, Sunk by torpedo, 6–7 December 1942 | |
Vaderland | 1910 | 1914–1917 | 11,899 | Torpedoed and sunk by U-70 on 4 June 1917 | |
Lapland | 1909 | 1914–1920 | 17,540 | ||
Britannic | 1914 | 1915–1916 | 48,158 | Never entered passenger service. Sank after striking a mine in the Aegean Sea as a hospital ship. | |
Belgic | 1914 | 1917–1923 | 27,132 | ||
Justicia | 1914 | 1917–1918 | 32,234 | Ex- Statendam of Holland America Line, Torpedo and sank in 1918. | |
Vedic | 1918 | 1918–1934 | 9,302 | ||
Bardic | 1918 | 1919–1925 | 9,332 | Sold in 1925, bombed and sunk on 9 March 1941 |
1920–1932
Ship | Built | White Star service | GRT | Notes | Image |
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Gallic | 1918 | 1920–1933 | 11,905 | ||
Mobile | 1909 | 1920 | 16,960 | Launched in 1908 by Blohm+Voss for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and serves until 1915, laid in Hamburg, and war repatriated by U.S. government in 1919 serves as troop carrier under Mobile and relinquished to USSB, chartered briefly by White Star then sold to Byron Steamship Co. in 1920 under King Alexander serves under 1923, sold to United American Lines under Cleveland serves until 1926, sold to HAPAG, serves until 1931, laid up until 1933 when sold to Blohm+Voss for scrap. | |
Arabic | 1909 | 1920–1931 | 16,786 | Launched in 1908 by AG Weser for Norddeutscher Lloyd and serves under Berlin until 1914 when appropriated by Germany Navy for war effort, laying sea mines. Interned at Trondheim for ungraceful stay, then repatriated to P&O Line in 1919, sold to White Star in 1920, serves until 1924 under Arabic, sold to Red Star Line in 1926 and serves until 1930, and scrappped in 1931 in Genoa. | |
Haverford | 1901 | 1921–1925 | 11,635 | Laid and launched in 1901 by John Brown & Company and serves the International Mercantile Marine Co.'s White Star and fellow trusts, American Line, Red Star Line, and Dominion Line until 1915, and serves the Admiralty for war effort, then returned to civilian use. Scrapped in 1935 in Italy | |
Homeric | 1913 | 1922–1935 | 35,000 | Ex-Columbus, awarded to White Star Line by the Allies as compensation for the Oceanic. Scrapped in 1936. | |
Majestic | 1914 | 1922–1936 | 56,551 | Ex-Bismark awarded to White Star Line by the Allies as compensation for the Britannic. Sold in 1936, sank in 1940, scrapped in 1944. | |
Poland | 1897 | 1922–1925 | 8,282 | ||
Pittsburgh | 1922 | 1922–1925 | 16,322 | sold in 1926 sunk on 25 April 1941 | |
Doric | 1923 | 1923–1935 | 16,484 | Ordered by IMMC, laid in 1921 and launched in 1922 by Harland & Wolff and serves White Star 1923-1934, serving Cunard-White Star in 1935 until collision with the P&O Line's Viceroy of India, then sold to John Cashmore Ltd and scrapped at Cashmores Newport, Monmouthshire | |
Regina | 1917 | 1925-1929 | 16,313 | Ordered by Dominion Line and launched in 1917 by Harland & Wolff, serves war effort as a troop carrier for British and North Atlantic Steam Navigation Company under Regina, transferred to Leyland Line in 1920 and serves from 1922-1925, transferred to White Star in 1926, serves til 1929, transferred to Red Star Line and serves 1930-1934 under Westerland, Red Star Line bought by Bernstein Line and serves 1935-1939, Bernstein's assets liquidated by Nazis and sold to Holland America Line and operates as a troop carrier in Indian Ocean, bought by British Navy in 1942 and operated as a munitions depot. Sold in 1946 to South Georgia Line, planned for whaling but instead sold to Hughes Bolckow and scrapped at Blyth in 1947. | |
Delphic | 1918 | 1925–1933 | 8,002 | Laid in 1916 and launched in 1918 by Harland & Wolff, served Booth Line for war efforts under War Icarus, sold in 1919 to American Atlantic Transport Line under Mesaba, transferred to White Star under Delphic in 1925 for Trans-Pacific Australia routes, sold in 1933 to Clan Line to deliver same routes under Clan Farquahr, Clan Line merged with Cunard-White Star in 1948 and scrapped at Milford Haven under restructuring. | |
Albertic | 1920 | 1927–1934 | 18,940 | Keel laid down in 1914 by AG Weser for Norddeutscher Lloyd. Construction halted due to WWI, then completed in 1920 and confiscated by British as reparations and begins service for Royal Mail Line in 1923-1927 as the Ohio then serves White Star until 1930, held at River Clyde until scrapped in Osaka, Japan in 1934. | |
Calgaric | 1918 | 1927–1934 | 16,063 | Built by Harland & Wolff in 1917, and launched in 1918, assuming service with Pacific SN Co Line as the Orca, transferred to Royal Mail Line in 1923, transferred to Oceanic Sn Co Line in 1926, transferred to White Star Line in 1927 as the Calgaric, laid up 1930-1933, briefly resumes service, restructuring by Cunard-White Star has it then scrapped at Rosyth in 1934. | |
Laurentic | 1927 | 1927–1940 | 18,724 | Sold in 1939 torpedoed by U-99 November 3-4, 1940 The last steamship built for the White Star Line and the last White Star Line ship to sink. | |
Oceanic | 1928 | 60,000-80,000 | Never finished | ||
Britannic | 1929 | 1929–1949 | 26,943 | Scrapped in 1961. | |
Georgic | 1932 | 1932–1949 | 27,759 | Bombed and sunk in July 1941, salvaged by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd in October 1941, refloated and restored 1942-1944, resumed service as a troop carrier in 1945, resumed civil service in 1948, Scrapped in 1956. |
References
- ^ "SV White Star (+1883)". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 May 2022.
- ^ Cameron (2011), p. 183.
- ^ Chirnside, Mark (2004). The Olympic-Class Ships. Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-2868-0.
Bibliography
- Cameron, Stephen (2011). Belfast Shipbuilders: A Titanic Tale (1st ed.). Colourpoint Books. ISBN 978-1-906578-78-7.