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This article is about a historical novel set in 1572. For fictional tales with this title, see The White Ship (disambiguation).
For the twelfth century English disaster, see White Ship.
The White Ship is a 2002 historical novel by Australian children's author Jackie French. The novel, set in 1572, follows the journey of a group of Protestant children who are forced to flee their home, an island off the coast of France, upon a defecting warship known as "The White Ship", after Catherine de' Medici orders the deaths of all French Huguenots.