"Oceanic Steam Navigation Company" redirects here. Not to be confused with Ocean Steam Navigation Company.
The White Star Line
Company type
Partnership
Industry
Shipping, transport
Founded
1845; 179 years ago (1845) in Liverpool, England
Defunct
1934; 90 years ago (1934)
Fate
Merged with Cunard Line
Successor
Cunard White Star Line
Area served
Transatlantic
Parent
Ismay, Imrie and Co.
Footnotes / references House Flag
The White Star Line was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually rose up to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world, providing passenger and cargo services between the British Empire and the United States. While many other shipping lines focused primarily on speed, White Star branded their services by focusing more on providing comfortable passages for both upper class travellers and immigrants.
Today, White Star is remembered for the innovative vessel Oceanic and for the losses of some of their best passenger liners, including the wrecking of Atlantic in 1873, the sinking of Republic in 1909, the loss of Titanic in 1912 and the wartime sinking of HMHS Britannic in 1916. Despite its casualties, the company retained a prominent hold on shipping markets around the globe before falling into decline during the Great Depression. White Star merged in 1934 with its chief rival, Cunard Line, operating as Cunard-White Star Line until Cunard purchased White Star's share in the joint company in 1950. Cunard then operated as a single company until 2005 and is now part of Carnival Corporation & plc. As a lasting reminder of the White Star Line, modern Cunard ships use the term White Star Service to describe the level of customer service expected of the company.[1]
^"The Legendary Cunard White Star Service". The Cunarders. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
The WhiteStarLine was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually rose up to become one of the most...
the WhiteStarLine. List of Cunard Line ships "SV WhiteStar (+1883)". Wrecksite.eu. Retrieved 26 May 2022. Haws, Duncan (1990). WhiteStarLine (Oceanic...
(1893). Built for WhiteStarLine as Gothic. Transferred to Red StarLine in 1908 and renamed Gothland. Transferred back to WhiteStarLine in 1911 and name...
her crew and passengers." Terry Ismay, the great-great-nephew of WhiteStarLine chairman and Titanic survivor J. Bruce Ismay, will be a member of the...
However, in the 1870s Cunard fell behind its rivals, the WhiteStarLine and the Inman Line. To meet this competition, in 1879 the firm was reorganised...
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of the WhiteStarLine, changing the colour from white to black to symbolise ownership by black people rather than white people. The black star became...
binary star. There are currently thought to be eight white dwarfs among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun. The unusual faintness of white dwarfs...
Lahoud, he set up WhiteStarLine Ltd, which they operated together for several years before ending their partnership in 2007. In 2008, White opened his first...
the moored liners SS City of New York of the American Line and Oceanic of the WhiteStarLine, the latter of which would have been her running mate on...
deadliest sinking of a single ship at the time. Titanic, operated by the WhiteStarLine, carried some of the wealthiest people in the world, as well as hundreds...
Royal Naval Reserve officer, who achieved command status with the WhiteStarLine shipping company, including as captain of HMHS Britannic. Born in London...
Allies. The Hamburg America Line's trio (Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck) were divided between the Cunard Line, WhiteStarLine, and the United States Lines...
WhiteStarLine in 1900. From 1900 to 1912, Murdoch gradually progressed from Second Officer to First Officer, serving on a succession of WhiteStar Line...
had paddle wheels. See also: WhiteStarLine's Olympic, Homeric, Majestic, Doric, and Laurentic. List of WhiteStarLine ships Gibbs, Charles Robert Vernon...
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