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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
|
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 Sep 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. |
|
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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 Sep 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 |
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1858 |
1860-1869 |
1790 |
Burnt 9 Mar 1869 near Falklands |
|
Lord Raglan |
1854 |
1860-18?? |
1904 |
Missing 26 Feb 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 Nov 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 |
1863-18?? |
671 |
Missing 1874 |
|
Tornado |
1852 |
1863-1867 |
1720 |
Sold 1867 |
|
Golden Sunset |
1863 |
1864-18?? |
628 |
Wrecked 17 Dec 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
|
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 April 1, 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 |
Resembled the RMS Oceanic |
|
Adriatic |
1872 |
1872–1899 |
3,888 |
Scrapped in 1899
|
|
Celtic |
1872 |
1872-1893 |
1,867 |
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 |
|
|
Cufic |
1885 |
1885–1901 |
4,639 |
|
|
Runic |
1889 |
1889–1895 |
5,043 |
Later renamed the SS Imo, was involved in the Halifax explosion |
|
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
|
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 February 11, 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 |
|
|
Persic |
1899 |
1899–1935 |
11,973 |
|
|
Oceanic |
1899 |
1899–1914 |
17,272 |
|
|
1900–1909
Ship |
Built |
White Star service |
GRT |
Notes |
Image
|
Runic |
1900 |
1900–1930 |
12,482 |
|
|
Suevic |
1900 |
1900–1928 |
12,531 |
|
|
Celtic |
1901 |
1901–1928 |
21,035 |
|
|
Athenic |
1902 |
1902–1928 |
12,345 |
|
|
Corinthic |
1902 |
1902–1931 |
12,367 |
|
|
Ionic |
1903 |
1903–1934 |
12,352 |
|
|
Cedric |
1903 |
1903–1931 |
21,073 |
|
|
Victorian |
1895 |
1903–1904 |
8,825 |
Renamed SS Russian |
|
Armenian |
1895 |
1903–1915 |
8,825 |
|
|
Arabic |
1903 |
1903–1915 |
15,801 |
|
|
Romanic |
1898 |
1903–1912 |
11,394 |
Renamed SS Scandinavian |
|
Cretic |
1903 |
1903–1904 |
13,507 |
|
|
Republic |
1903 |
1903–1909 |
15,400 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
Gallic |
1894 |
1907–1913 |
12,352 |
|
|
Adriatic |
1907 |
1907–1935 |
24,541 |
|
|
Laurentic |
1908 |
1908–1917 |
14,892 |
|
|
Megantic |
1909 |
1909–1933 |
14,878 |
|
|
1910–1919
Ship |
Built |
White Star service |
GRT |
Notes |
Image
|
Zealandic |
1911 |
1911–1926 |
8,090 |
|
|
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 |
|
|
Vaderland |
1910 |
1914–1917 |
11,899 |
Torpedoed and sunk by U-70 on 4th 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 |
|
|
Vedic |
1918 |
1918–1934 |
9,302 |
|
|
Bardic |
1918 |
1919–1925 |
9,332 |
|
|
1920–1932
Ship |
Built |
White Star service |
GRT |
Notes |
Image
|
Gallic |
1918 |
1920–1933 |
11,905 |
|
|
Mobile |
1909 |
1920 |
16,960 |
|
|
Arabic |
1909 |
1920–1931 |
16,786 |
|
|
Homeric |
1913 |
1922–1935 |
35,000 |
|
|
Haverford |
1901 |
1921–1925 |
11,635 |
|
|
Poland |
1897 |
1922–1925 |
8,282 |
|
|
Majestic |
1914 |
1922–1936 |
56,551 |
|
|
Pittsburgh |
1922 |
1922–1925 |
16,322 |
|
|
Doric |
1923 |
1923–1935 |
16,484 |
|
|
Regina
|
1917
|
1925-1929
|
16,313
|
|
|
Delphic |
1918 |
1925–1933 |
8,002 |
|
|
Albertic |
1920 |
1927–1934 |
18,940 |
|
|
Calgaric |
1918 |
1927–1934 |
16,063 |
|
|
Laurentic |
1927 |
1927–1940 |
18,724 |
|
|
Oceanic
|
1928
|
|
60,000-80,000
|
Never finished
|
|
Britannic |
1929 |
1929–1949 |
26,943 |
Scrapped in 1961. |
|
Georgic |
1932 |
1932–1949 |
27,759 |
Scrapped in 1956. |
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References
The White Star Sailing Packets, Captain E. A. Woods [1]
Further reading