Name | Line | In service | Left service | Status |
Adriatic | White Star | 1907 | 1934 | Scrapped |
Alaunia | Cunard | 1913 | 1916 | Sunk by mine |
Alaunia | Cunard | 1925 | 1957 | Scrapped |
Alaunia | Cunard | 1960 | 1969 | Sold 1969 to Brocklebank Line and renamed as Malancha, sold again in 1971 to Panama as Humi Nastta and fate unknown |
Albania | Cunard | 1911 | 1930 | Built in 1900 as Consuelo, bought by Cunard 1911 & renamed Albania, sold 1912 & renamed Poleric, scrapped 1930 |
Alcantara | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1913 | 1916 | Sunk by enemy action |
Alcantara | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, later Royal Mail Lines | 1926 | 1958 | Scrapped |
Almanzora | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1906 | 1948 | Scrapped |
Amanda | Pickford & Black | — | — | — |
Amazon | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1906 | 1916 | Sunk by enemy action |
Andania | Cunard | 1913 | 1918 | Sunk by enemy action |
Andania | Cunard | 1921 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action |
Andes | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1913 | 1929 | Scrapped after finishing career as the cruise ship Atlantis |
Andes | Royal Mail Lines | 1939 | 1959 | Scrapped in 1971 after finishing career as a cruise ship |
Antonia | Cunard | 1921 | 1948 | Scrapped |
Aquitania | Cunard | 1914 | 1950 | Scrapped |
Arabia | P&O | 1898 | 1916 | Sunk by enemy action |
Aragon | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1905 | 1917 | Sunk by enemy action |
Arlanza | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1912 | 1938 | Scrapped |
Arundel Castle | Union-Castle | 1921 | 1959 | Scrapped |
Ascania | Cunard | 1923 | 1957 | Scrapped |
Asturias | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1925 | 1957 | Scrapped |
Aurania | Cunard | 1881 | 1905 | Scrapped |
Aurania | Cunard | 1916 | 1918 | Sunk by enemy action |
Aurania | Cunard | 1924 | 1961 | Scrapped |
Atlantic | White Star | 1871 | 1873 | Sunk after collision with rocks |
Ausonia | Cunard | 1921 | 1965 | Scrapped |
Avon | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1906 and 1919 | 1914 and 1929 | Converted as troopship in 1914, then as armed merchant cruiser 1915 and renamed HMS Avoca, return to owners and renamed Avon in 1919; scrapped 1930 |
Baltic | White Star | 1904 | 1933 | Scrapped |
Ben-my-Chree | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1845 | 1860 | Wrecked |
Ben-my-Chree | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1875 | 1906 | Scrapped |
Ben-my-Chree | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1908 | 1915 | Sunk by enemy action |
Ben-my-Chree | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1927 | 1965 | Scrapped |
Ben-my-Chree | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1966 | 1984 | Scrapped |
Ben-my-Chree | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1998 | 2008 | Currently on active service as RO/PAX vessel |
Berengaria | Cunard | 1913 | 1938 | Scrapped |
Britannia | Cunard | 1840 | 1880 | Sunk |
Britannic | White Star | 1874 | 1903 | Scrapped |
Britannic | White Star | 1915 | 1916 | Sunk by mine |
Britannic | White Star | 1929 | 1960 | Scrapped |
Bulimba | British India Steam Navigation Company | 1886 | 1922 | Built 1881, sold to China in 1882, scrapped in 1933. |
Capetown Castle | Union-Castle | 1937 | 1966 | Scrapped |
Campania | Cunard | 1891 | 1918 | Sank after collision with HMS Glorious |
Carinthia | Cunard | 1925 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action |
Carinthia | Cunard | 1956 | 1968 | Sold 1968; renamed Fairland; scrapped 2006 |
Carmania | Cunard | 1905 | 1932 | Scrapped |
Carnarvon Castle | Union-Castle | 1926 and 1950 | 1939 and 1963 | Commissioned as HMS Carnarvon Castle from 1939 to 1947. |
Carpathia | Cunard | 1903 | 1918 | Sunk by enemy action |
Caronia | Cunard | 1905 | 1933 | Scrapped |
Caronia | Cunard White Star | 1948 | 1974 | Scrapped |
Celtic | White Star | 1901 | 1933 | Scrapped |
Cedric | White Star | 1903 | 1932 | Scrapped |
Columba | David MacBrayne | 1879 | 1936 | Scrapped |
Columba | David MacBrayne | 1964 | 1968 | Owned by the Secretary of State for Scotland, chartered to David MacBrayne. Renamed MV Columba in 1968. Currently in active service as Hebridean Princess. |
Doric | White Star | 1923 | 1935 | Scrapped after collision with the Formigny |
Douglas | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1858 | 1862 | Sold to Cunard, Wilson and Co. Later scrapped |
Douglas | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1864 | 1888 | Scrapped |
Douglas | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1901 | 1923 | Sunk after collision with Artemisia |
Dunottar Castle | Union-Castle | 1890 | 1915 | Sunk during bad weather |
Durham Castle | Union-Castle | 1904 | 1940 | Sunk by mine |
Ebro | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1914 | 1954 | Scrapped after becoming NT Serpa Pinto |
Ellan Vannin | Castletown Steam Navigation Company | 1854 | 1858 | Sold to the Government of Sardinia, renamed Archimedes |
Ellan Vannin | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1883 | 1909 | Sunk during bad weather in the River Mersey, December, 1909 |
Empress of Asia[12] | Canadian Pacific | 1913 | 1942[12] | Sunk by enemy action |
Empress of Australia[6] | Canadian Pacific | 1922 | 1952[13] | Scrapped |
Empress of Australia | Canadian Pacific | 1953 | 1956 | Scrapped |
Empress of Britain | Canadian Pacific | 1906 | 1930 | Scrapped |
Empress of Britain | Canadian Pacific | 1931 | 1940[14] | Sunk by enemy action |
Empress of Britain | Canadian Pacific | 1956 | 1965 | Scrapped |
Empress of Canada | Canadian Pacific | 1922 | 1943 | Sunk by enemy action |
Empress of Canada | Canadian Pacific | 1929 | 1953 | Scrapped |
Empress of Canada[15] | Canadian Pacific | 1961 | 2003 | Scrapped |
Empress of China[16] | Canadian Pacific | 1891 | 1912 | Scrapped |
Empress of England[17] | Canadian Pacific | 1957 | 1970 | Scrapped |
Empress of France | Canadian Pacific | 1914 | 1931 | Scrapped |
Empress of India[16] | Canadian Pacific | 1891 | 1919 | Scrapped |
Empress of India | Canadian Pacific | 1908 | 1928 | Scrapped |
Empress of Ireland | Canadian Pacific | 1906 | 1914 | Sunk after collision with SS Storstad |
Empress of Japan | Canadian Pacific | 1930 | 1966 | Scrapped after fire |
Empress of Russia[18] | Canadian Pacific | 1913 | 1945[18] | Scrapped after fire |
Empress of Scotland | Canadian Pacific | 1906 |
1930 | Scrapped |
Empress of Scotland | Canadian Pacific | 1930 | 1966 | Scrapped after fire |
Empress Queen | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1897 | 1916 | Foundered on the Ring Rocks off Bembridge, Isle of Wight, February, 1916 |
Etruria | Cunard | 1885 | 1909 | Scrapped |
Fenella | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1881 | 1929 | Scrapped |
Fenella | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1937 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action at the Dunkirk evacuation. |
Fenella | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1951 | 1973 | Sold 1973 and renamed Vasso M. Sank off Damietta, 2 February 1977 |
Franconia | Cunard | 1922 | 1956 | Scrapped |
Franconia | Cunard | 1963 | 1971 | See Ivernia. |
Germanic | White Star | 1875 | 1950 | Scrapped |
Georgic | White Star | 1933 | 1954 | Scrapped |
Homeric | White Star | 1922 | 1935 | Scrapped |
Ivernia | Cunard | 1955 | 1971 | Renamed RMS Franconia 1963, sold 1973 and renamed Feodor Shalyapin; scrapped 2004 |
Kenya Castle | Union-Castle | 1951 | 1967 | Sold to Chandris of Greece and renamed Amerikanis; used until 1996 and sold after 2000 and scrapped 2001 |
King Orry | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1842 | 1858 | Sold 1858 |
King Orry | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1871 | 1912 | Scrapped |
King Orry | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1913 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action at the Dunkirk evacuation |
King Orry | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1946 | 1975 | Scrapped |
King Orry | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1990 | 1998 | Sold 1998 |
Knight of Malta | Cassar Co. Ltd. | 1929 | 1941 | Wrecked |
Laconia | Cunard | 1912 | 1917 | Sunk by enemy action |
Laconia | Cunard | 1922 | 1942 | Sunk by enemy action |
Lady Drake | Canadian National | 1928 | 1942 | Sunk by enemy action |
Lady Hawkins | Canadian National | 1928 | 1942 | Sunk by enemy action |
Lady Nelson | Canadian National | 1928 | 1939 | Acquired as hospital ship and later as troop ship by Royal Canadian Navy; returned to CN 1946; retired by CN 1952 and sold to Egypt as Gumhuryat Misr for Khedivial Mail Line, renamed Alwadi in 1960; broken up in Egypt 1968 |
Lady Rodney | Canadian National | 1929 | 1953 | Sold to Khedivial Mail Line and renamed Mecca, then to United Arab Maritime Company in 1961; scuttled in Egypt 1967 |
Lady Somers | Canadian National | 1929 | 1940 | Acquired by RN 1940 and sunk in Atlantic Ocean about 400 kilometres (250 mi) east of Ponta Delgada, Azores 1941 |
Lady of Mann | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1930 | 1971 | Scrapped |
Lady of Mann | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1976 | 2005 | Sold 2005 |
Lancastria | Cunard | 1920 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action |
Leinster | City of Dublin SP | 1896 | 1918 | Sunk by enemy action |
Llandovery Castle | Union-Castle | 1914 | 1918 | Sunk by enemy action |
Lucania | Cunard | 1893 | 1909 | Scrapped after fire |
Lusitania | Cunard | 1907 | 1915 | Sunk after being torpedoed by SM U-20 |
Majestic | White Star | 1922 | 1940 | Scrapped |
Maloja | P&O | 1923 | 1954 | Scrapped |
Manxman | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1920 | 1940 | Scrapped |
Manxman | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1955 | 1982 | Scrapped |
Manx Maid | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1923 | 1950 | Scrapped |
Manx Maid | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1962 | 1984 | Scrapped |
Manx Viking | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1978 | 1987 | Sold 1987 |
Mauretania | Cunard White Star | 1906 | 1935 | Scrapped |
Mauretania | Cunard White Star | 1939 | 1965 | Scrapped |
Medina | P&O | 1911 | 1917 | Sunk by enemy action |
Mona | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1832 | 1841 | Sold 1841 |
Mona | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1878 | 1883 | Sunk in the Formby Channel, after being struck by the SS Rita |
Mona | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1903 | 1909 | Scrapped |
Mona | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1919 | 1938 | Scrapped |
Mona's Isle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1830 | 1851 | Scrapped |
Mona's Isle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1860 | 1883 | Converted to screw propulsion and renamed Ellan Vannin, sank 1909 in River Mersey |
Mona's Isle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1882 | 1915 | Scrapped |
Mona's Isle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1905 | 1948 | Scrapped |
Mona's Isle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1950 | 1980 | Scrapped |
Mona's Isle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1984 | 1986 | Sold 1986 and renamed Al Fahad; wrecked off Jeddah, June 2004 |
Mona's Queen | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1853 | 1880 | Scrapped |
Mona's Queen | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1885 | 1929 | Recommissioned in 1915; returned to service in 1919; Scrapped by Smith & Company in Port Glasgow, 1929 |
Mona's Queen | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1934 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action |
Mona's Queen | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1946 | 1962 | Scrapped in 1981 |
Mona's Queen | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1972 | 1995 | Scrapped in 2008 |
Mooltan | P&O | 1923 | 1953 | Scrapped |
Newfoundland | Johnston Warren Lines | 1925 | 1943 | Burnt out by enemy action |
Niagara | Union Steamship Co of NZ | 1912 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action |
Nova Scotia | Johnston Warren Lines | 1926 | 1942 | Sunk by enemy action |
Oceanic | White Star | 1871 | 1896 | Scrapped |
Oceanic | White Star | 1899 | 1914 | Scrapped |
Olympic | White Star | 1911 | 1935 | Scrapped |
Orama | Orient Line | 1911 | 1917 | Torpedoed by SM U-62 south of Western Approaches |
Orama | Orient Line | 1924 | 1940 | Sunk by the German cruiser Admiral Hipper off Norway |
Orizaba | Orient Line | 1886 | 1905 | Wrecked off Garden Island, Fremantle |
Ormuz | Orient Line | 1886 | 1912 | Sold to Cie de Nav. Sud-Atlantique, renamed SS Divona; last owned by Union Industrielle Et Maritime (U.I.M) and scuttled in 1942 off Bizerta, Tunisia, raised and scrapped in 1946 |
Ormuz | Orient Line | 1920 | 1927 | ex-Zeppelin, 1920 renamed Ormuz, 1927 sold to North German Lloyd, renamed Dresden. |
Orontes | Orient Line | 1902 | 1916 | Lost RMS status in 1916–1917 while serving as a troopship. Laid up in 1921. Sold in 1922 and became the exhibition ship SS British Trade. Repossessed by Orient Line later the same year and reverted to Orontes (although not with the status of RMS). Scrapped in 1926. |
Orotava | Orient Line | 1889 | 1906 | Served as a troop ship between 1899 and 1903 as a troopship during the Second Boer War. Scrapped. |
Oruba | Orient Line | 1889 | 1906 | Scrapped. |
Otranto | Orient Line | 1926 and 1948 | 1939 and 1957 | Served as troop ship HMTS Otranto during World War II. Sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation as scrap and broken up at Faslane. |
Peel Castle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1912 | 1939 | Scrapped |
Pendennis Castle | Union-Castle | 1959 | 1980 | Scrapped |
Persia | Cunard | 1855 | 1872 | Scrapped |
Peveril | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1884 | 1899 | Sank off Douglas after a collision with SS Monarch 16 September 1899 |
Peveril | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1929 | 1964 | Scrapped |
Port Kingston | Imperial Direct West Mail Co | 1904 | 1911 | Sold to Union Steamship Co of NZ; renamed Tahiti; sank 1930 |
Prince of Wales | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1888 | 1915 | Scrapped |
Queen Elizabeth | Cunard White Star | 1947 | 1968 | Launched in 1940 and served as a troop ship until 1946. Scrapped after arson fire. |
Queen Mary | Cunard White Star | 1936 and 1947 | 1940 and 1967 | Served as a troop ship from 1940 to 1946. Decommissioned in 1967; currently restaurant/hotel/museum in Long Beach, California |
Queen of the Isle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1834 | 1845 | Sold 1845; eventually reported lost off the Falkland Islands |
Queen Victoria | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1888 | 1915 | Scrapped |
Quetta | British-India SN Co | 1881 | 1890 | Wrecked |
Ramsey Town | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1904 | 1936 | Scrapped |
Remuera | New Zealand Shipping Co | 1911 | 1940 | Sunk by enemy action |
Republic | Oceanic Steam Navigation d/b/a White Star Line | 1903 | 1909 | Sunk after collision with another ship |
Rotorua | New Zealand Shipping Co | 1910 | 1917 | Sunk by enemy action |
Rhone | Royal Mail Steam Packet Company | 1865 | 1867 | Wrecked |
Royal Adelaide | City of Dublin SP | 1838 | 1849 | Sank |
Rushen Castle | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1898 | 1947 | Scrapped |
Samaria | Cunard | 1920 | 1956 | Scrapped |
Saxonia | Cunard | 1900 | 1925 | Scrapped |
Saxonia | Cunard | 1954 | 1999 | In 1962 renamed Carmania; in 1973 sold & renamed Leonid Sobinov, scrapped 1999 |
St Helena | HM Government | 1977 | 1990 | Ex-Northland Prince. Lost RMS status in 1990 and renamed St Helena Island. Renamed Avalon in 1990 and Indooceanique in 1993. Scrapped in 1996. |
St Helena |
HM Government |
1990 |
2018 |
Last ocean-crossing ship in regular mail-carrying service. Used as headquarters for the Extreme E racing series. |
Scillonian | Isles of Scilly SC | 1926 | 1955 | Scrapped |
Scillonian | Isles of Scilly SC | 1955 | 1977 | Sold and eventually sank after owner abandoned her in 2004 |
Scotia | Cunard | 1861 | 1904 | Wrecked |
Scythia I | Cunard | 1874 | 1899 | Scrapped |
Scythia II | Cunard | 1921 | 1958 | Scrapped |
Servia | Cunard | 1881 | 1901 | Scrapped |
Slavonia | British-India SN Co | 1902 | 1909 | Wrecked |
Snaefell | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1863 | 1875 | Sold 1875 |
Snaefell | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1876 | 1904 | Scrapped |
Snaefell | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1910 | 1918 | Sunk by enemy action |
Snaefell | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1920 | 1945 | Scrapped 1948 |
Snaefell | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1948 | 1978 | Scrapped 1978 |
Snaefell | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 2006 | 2011 | Built 1991, acquired 2006, sold 2011. |
Southampton Castle | Union-Castle | 1965 | 1978 | Sold to Cost Armatori of Italy with Good Hope Castle and renamed Paola C; scrapped in China 1984 |
Strathaird | P&O | 1931 | 1961 | RMS status removed in 1954 and renamed SS Strathaird. Scrapped. |
Strathnaver | P&O | 1931 | 1962 | RMS status removed in 1954 and renamed SS Strathnaver. Scrapped. |
Sylvania | Cunard | 1957 | 2004 | Sold 1968 & renamed Fairwind; scrapped 2004 |
Tahiti | Union Steamship Co of NZ | 1911 | 1930 | Hull holed by broken propeller; sank |
Tayleur | White Star (not OSNC) | 1853 | 1853 | Ran aground |
The Ramsey | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1895 | 1915 | Sunk by enemy action |
Titanic | White Star | 1912 | 1912 | Sunk after collision with iceberg |
Transvaal Castle | Union-Castle | 1961 | 2000 | Sold 1966 to Safmarine and renamed "SA Vaal"; left Royal Mail service 1969; scrapped 2003 |
Trent | Royal Mail SP | 1841 | 1865 | Scrapped |
Tynwald | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1846 | 1886 | Sold 1866 |
Tynwald | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1886 | 1888 | Sold 1888 |
Tynwald | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1891 | 1934 | Sold 1934 |
Tynwald | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1936 | 1939 | Sunk by enemy action |
Tynwald | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1947 | 1974 | Scrapped 1975 |
Tynwald | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1986 | 1990 | Sold and left Royal Mail service 1990; scrapped 2007[19] |
Tyrconnel | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1911 | 1932 | Scrapped |
Umbria | Cunard | 1884 | 1910 | Scrapped |
Viceroy of India | P&O | 1927 | 1942 | Sunk by enemy action |
Victoria | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1907 | 1957 | Scrapped |
Victoria | East African Railways & Harbours | 1961 | 1977 | Lost status when EAR&H was dissolved; still in service as "MV Victoria" |
Victorian | Allan Line | 1904 | 1929 | World's first steam turbine ocean liner; scrapped 1929 |
Viking | Isle of Man Steam Packet Company | 1905 | 1954 | Scrapped in 1954 |
Windsor Castle | Union-Castle | 1922 | 1943 | Sunk by enemy action |
Windsor Castle | Union-Castle | 1960 | 1998 | Scrapped |