| The White Ship | |
| Author: | Jackie French |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Historical fiction, children's literature |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Release Date: | 2002 |
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.[1] [2]