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                         (WS) WHITE STAR LINE


                A. EMIGRANT FLEET (including charters)
1852-1866 (Pilkington & Wilson)

                I. U.S.A. BUILT

                BLUE JACKET (1) - w3s 1,790t 1854 East Boston

Oil painting by unidentified artist    Frank C. Bowen's "The Golden Age of Sail"


                CHARIOT OF FAME- w3s 2,050t 1853 East Boston, Mass

   O.T.Howe & F.G.Matthews' "American Clipper Ships 1833-1858", Vol. I


                EMPRESS OF THE SEA - 2,197t 1853 East Boston, Mass

O.T. Howe & F.C. Matthews' "American Clipper Ships 1833-1858", Vol. I

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GREAT TASMANIA - w3s 1,964t 1855 East Boston, Mass.

Engraving Illustrated London News 1860 Vol. P.320

RED JACKET - w3s 2,305t 1854 Rockland, Maine

In the ice off Cape Horn returnining to Liverpool       "Currier & Ives Clipper Ship Prints", Introduction by
from Australia, August 1854.     Captain Felix Riesenberg & List of Prints by W.S. Hall



                II. CANADIAN BUILT
(N.B. = New Brunswick)

   ARABIAN - w3s 1,068t 1852 St John, N.B.

Lithograph by J.R. Isaacs National Library of Australia nla.pic-an9517826

BEN NEVIS - w3s 1,163t 1852 St. John, N.B.

Engraving     Illustrated London News 1852 Vol. 21 P.189


               JESSE MUNN 1852-- No image found

MERMAID - w3s 1,321t 1853 St. John, N.B.

    Artist: John R. Isaac    National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK (PY8342)


COLUMBIA - w3bk 539t ca.1858 Quebec

Copy print State Library of Queensland (Negative No.152308)

GREAT AUSTRALIA - w3s 1,661t 1860 St. John, N.B.

Engraving Illustrated London News 1860 Vol. 37 P. 635


                 LORD RAGLAN - w3s 1,886t 1854 Quebec

As a troopship in the Crimean War Illustrated London News 1855 Vol. 27, P.53

ROYAL FAMILY - 3s 1,750t 1862 St John, N.B.

Engraving Illustrated London News 1862 Vol. 41, P.400

STAR OF THE EAST - w3s 1,219t 1853 St John, N.B.

Oil painting by J. Heard National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK (BHC3645)


                STAR OF INDIA - w3s 1,690t 1861 Clifton, N.B. - No image found

                WHITE STAR (EX-BLUE JACKET (2)) - w3s 2,340t 1854 St John, N.B.

Monochrme of a J.R. Isaac lithograph    Frank C. Bowen's "The Golden Age of Sail"

                III. UNITED KINGDOM BUILT


                TAYLEUR - is3 1,997t 1853 Warrington

Engraving (when newly built) Illustrated London News 1853, Vol. 23, P.453

                VERNON - i3s 1,319t 1864 Liverpool - No image found

                B. EMIGRANT FLEET (including charters)
1867-1871 (T.H. Ismay & Co.)

                BAYARD - i3s 1,380gt 1,319nt 1864 Liverpool   (converted to a barque)

           State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/4280)


                BORROWDALE - i3bk 1,197t 1868 Liverpool

   State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/1153)


CAPE CLEAR - i3s 853t 1869 Liverpool

Alongside in Sydney. State Library of New South Wales (Digital Order No.on4_40111

CARDIGAN CASTLE - i3bk 1,154t 1967 Glasgow

Photograph of painting    State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/1594 )

  CASMA -i3bk 649t 1869 Liverpool

                State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/1795)


   CORNWALLIS - i3s 1,214t 1862 Liverpool

Engraving    Illustrated London News 1862 Vol. 41, P.152


                DALLAM TOWER - i3s 1,499t 1866 Birkenhead

In port arriving under jury rig after being    State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/621)
dismasted in a storm in 1873


                DUKE OF EDINBURGH - c3s 1,073t 1867 Liverpool

Unidentified port (ca.1878) State Library of South Australia (PRG 1372/7/23)

DULEEP SINGH– i3s 1,198gt 1863 Liverpool

Oil painting by Unknown artist (1870s) Merseyside Maritme Museum No. 1955.236

HANNIBAL (as ADOLF TIDEMAND) - i3s 1,198t 1862 Glasgow

State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/3894)


                HAWARDEN CASTLE- i3s 1,101t 1869 Liverpool

State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/163)

MONTROSE (as MONTROSA after sold) - i3s 995t 1863 Glasgow

Postcard photograph       State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H93.8/183)


                REMINGTON - (after sale and renamed DINA) - i3s 999t 1863 Glasgow

As a barque (ca. 1900) State Library of South Australia (No. B12208)

VICTORIA TOWER - i3s 1563t 1869 Liverpool

Total loss after striking a reef off Barwon Heads, Victoria Engraving in an Australian illustrated
on her maiden voyage from Britain in October 1869   newspaper - State Library of Victoria
   (Accession No. IAN08/11/889/199)

                WEATHERSFIELD -  i3s 1,051t 1863 Glasgow
   (convertesd 3bk 1,047t 1865 Port Glasgow)

                    Photograph fo a postcard                                       State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H93.8/261)


               WOOSUNG - i3s 729t 1863 Glasgow

   State Library of Victoria (Accession No. H99.220/2849)



                Ship list and details from D. Hollett's "Fast Passages to Australia" (Fairplay
Publications Ltd. London 1986) and Michael Stammers "The Passage Makers"
(Toredo Books Ltd., Brighton, Sussex 1978)

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