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Books about other White Star Line Ships.This a list of books about individual White Star liners other than Titanic. In order to make it onto this list, the book must be about the history of one specific White Star liner. It is a surprisingly short list. The liners covered include Titanic's sisters Olympic & Britannic, plus the Atlantic, the Georgic, the Laurentic, the Oceanic, and the clipper ship Tayleur.
the White Star Liner Atlantic.
Hatchard, Keith A. The Two Atlantics. 1st printing. Lancelot Press. 1981. . isbn: 0889991588. scarcity: scarce.
The story of the shipwreck of the White Star Liner Atlantic at Prospect, Nova Scotia on April 1st, 1873. The book also includes the Halifax tribunal report, a crew and passenger list, and a list of the bodies and articles recovered from the wreck.
With thanks to Fiona Nitschke for mentioning this one.
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Hatchard, Keith A. The Two Atlantics. reprint. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing. 1981. wraps. isbn: 1551093057. scarcity: scarce. |
| Hatchard, Keith A. The Two Atlantics. reprint. Halifax: Nimbus Publishing. February, 2000. wraps. isbn: 1551093057. scarcity: fairly common. |
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Milsom, C.H. The Coal was There for Burning. Lon: Marine Media Management. 1975. hardcover. isbn: 0900976500. scarcity: hard to find.
The story of the wreck of the White Star Line passenger steamer Atlantic which was lost near Prospect, Nova Scotia in April of 1873. Of the 933 passengers aboard, almost two thirds lost their lives, and the only lives that were saved were male passengers and crew.
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the White Star Liner Britannic.
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de Kerbrech, Richard P. The Last Liners of the White Star Line. M.V. Britannic and M.V. Georgic. 1st printing. Shopshire, England: Shipping Books Press. November, 2002. wraps. isbn: 1900867052. scarcity: scarce. |
| Fleming, Rev. John A. The Last Voyage of His Majesty’s Hospital Ship Britannic. 1st printing. Marshall Brothers. 1917. hardcover. isbn: none. scarcity: very scarce. |
Fleming, Rev. John A & Simon Mills (editor). The Last Voyage of His Majesty’s Hospital Ship Britannic. 1st thus. revised edition of the 1917 original. Wordsmith Publications. 1998. wraps. isbn: 1899493026. scarcity: hard to find.
A reprint of the rare original book with archival illustrations.
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| Mills, Simon. HMHS Britannic, the Last Titan. 1st printing. Dorset: Waterfront Publications. 1992. wraps. isbn: . scarcity: hard to find. |
| Mills, Simon. HMHS Britannic, the Last Titan. 2nd edition. Shipping Books Press. June, 1996. wraps. isbn: 1900867001. scarcity: hard to find. |
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Mills, Simon. Hostage to Fortune. 1st printing. Wordsmith. October, 2002. hardcover. isbn: 1899493034. scarcity: hard to find. A new, expanded history of Britannic. With thanks to Roy Mengot for initial notice about this book. |
the White Star Liner Georgic.
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de Kerbrech, Richard P. The Last Liners of the White Star Line. M.V. Britannic and M.V. Georgic. 1st printing. Shopshire, England: Shipping Books Press. November, 2002. wraps. isbn: 1900867052. scarcity: scarce. |
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O'Hanlon, Steve. M.V. Georgic. 1st printing. Merseyside: Countyvise Ltd. 1996. wraps. isbn: 0907768954. scarcity: scarce. |
the White Star Liner Laurentic.
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Scoltock, Jack. We Own Laurentic. The Story of the Gold Ship. North Ireland: Impact Publishing. . hardcover. isbn: . scarcity: hard to find.
The story of the White Star Liner Laurentic and the dives in past years to recover her treasures, as well as modern dives by the current owners in an attempt to salvage artifacts. The book is current up to the recent discovery, actually rediscovery, of the Captain’s safe.
With thanks to Senan Molony for mentioning this book on the Mail List.
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the White Star Liner Majestic.
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Chirnside, Mark. RMS Majestic: The Magic Stick. 1st printing. Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing. 2006. wraps. isbn: 0752438778. scarcity: fairly common.
From the publisher’s press release:
Laid down and constructed for the German Hamburg-Amerika Line, Majestic was later ceded to Britain’s White Star Line to replace the Britannic, a sister ship of Titanic sunk during the First World War. At 56,000 tons, she enjoyed a long reign as the world’s largest ship. She spent most of her life on the Southampton–New York run but cruised to Canada as well as offering short cruises from Southampton. With sumptuous interiors as well as luxurious restaurants and public rooms, she plied her trade until 1936. Saved from the scrapyard, she was instead converted into a training ship for naval cadets, and sailed for Rosyth as HMS Caledonia, surviving until 1940, when she was burnt out.
With an extensive collection of archive pictures of the Majestic and other ships, including photographs of the White Star vessel’s stately rooms, and striking paintings of the ship in vibrant colour, as well as a fascinating and comprehensive narrative chronicling the life of the vessel, RMS Majestic: The ‘Magic-Stick’ provides a complete history of a ship that was once the pride of the White Star Line.
For further details, see the publisher's website.
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the White Star Liner Oceanic.
Crawford, Moya. Deep Water. Thomas Reed Publications. October, 25 1999. hardcover. isbn: 0901281832. scarcity: hard to find.
The story of Alec Crawford and his partner’s salvage of the White Star liner Oceanic; as well as other salvage jobs he has worked on.
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Martin, Simon. The Other Titanic. 1st printing. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. 1980. hardcover. isbn: 0-7153-7755-8. scarcity: hard to find.
Story of the sinking of the White Star liner Oceanic in 1914 and the salvage operation some 60 years later by the author and his partner Alec Crawford. The ship had sunk in shallow waters, but in an area of wild tidal shifts, and was considered unsalvageable until the author and his partner proved otherwise.
Not a book for the anti-salvage minded individual, although it might help to know the ship was literally torn to pieces after it sank and as such was just a massive pile of debree on the ocean floor.
The first American edition was published more or less simultaneously, also in hardcover, by David & Charles Publishers, North Pomfret, VT.
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Martin, Simon. The Other Titanic. reprint. The Shetland Times, Ltd. October, 2004. wraps. isbn: 1904746039. scarcity: hard to find. A paperback reprint of the original 1980 edition, with a new introduction and postscript.
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the White Star Liner Olympic.
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Chirnside, Mark. RMS Olympic, Titanic’s Sister. 1st printing. Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing. November, 2004. wraps. isbn: 075243148X. scarcity: hard to find.
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Mills, Simon. RMS Olympic, the Old Reliable. 1st printing. Dorset: Waterfront Publications. November, 1993. wraps. isbn: 0946184798. scarcity: hard to find. |
| Mills, Simon. RMS Olympic, the Old Reliable. reprint edition. Shropshire: Shipping Books Press. 1995. wraps. isbn: 0946184798. scarcity: hard to find. |
the White Star Clipper Tayleur.
| Bourke, Edward J. Bound for Australia. The Loss of the Emigrant Ship Tayleur at Lambay on the Coast of Ireland. 1st printing. . October, 2003. wraps. isbn: 095230273X. scarcity: hard to find. |
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Starkey, H.F. Iron Clipper Tayleur. The White Star Line’s First Titanic. Avid Publications. 1998. wraps. isbn: 1902964004. scarcity: scarce.
The story of the first White Star ship to be lost on her maiden voyage, the Tayleur tragedy of 1854. The Tayleur was a clipper ship, not a steamer, and the White Star Line at this time was still under her original owners. Thomas Henry Ismay didn’t buy the company name until 1867, so, technically, this is not the same White Star line that owned the Titanic.
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