List of White Star Line ships

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.
Red Jacket	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
Blue Jacket	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]
	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.
	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[]

• Cameron, Stephen (2011). Belfast Shipbuilders: A Titanic Tale (1st ed.). Colourpoint Books. ISBN 978-1-906578-78-7.