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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
sunk in 1919
Runic
1889
1889–1895
5,043
Later renamed the SS Imo , was involved in the Halifax explosion Wrecked on November 30, 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
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
Sold, 1928 Sunk, September 12, 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
Runic
1900
1900–1930
12,482
Sold, 1930 Sunk, September 21, 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 April 1, 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 December 14, 1916
Armenian
1895
1903–1915
8,825
Torpedoed and sank U-24 on June 28, 1915.
Arabic
1903
1903–1915
15,801
Torpedoed and sunk by U-24 on August 19, 1915
Romanic
1898
1903–1912
11,394
Renamed SS Scandinavian
Cretic
1903
1903–1904
13,507
Republic
1903
1903–1909
15,400
Sank 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
Zealandic
1911
1911–1926
8,090
Sold in 1939, it struck a sunken shipwreck off Cromer on June 3, 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, December 6-7, 1942
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
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 March 9, 1941
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
Haverford
1901
1921–1925
11,635
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 April 25, 1941
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
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
The White Star Sailing Packets , Captain E. A. Woods [1]
Further reading