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Crew and employees of the White Star Line. Pages in category "White Star Line personnel" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The ship's eight-member orchestra was not on the White Star Line's payroll but was contracted to White Star by the Liverpool firm of C.W. & F.N. Black, which at that time placed musicians on almost all British liners. [33] The musicians boarded at Southampton and traveled as second-class passengers.
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It was the last steamship built for the White Star Line and the last White Star Line ship to sink. Oceanic: 1928 60,000-80,000 Keel laid down by Harland & Wolff in 1927 but never finished due to depression and collapse of RMSPC. Britannic: 1929: 1929–1949: 26,943
RMS Baltic was an ocean liner of the White Star Line that sailed between 1904 and 1932. At 23,876 gross register tonnage, she was the world's largest ship until May 1906.She was the third of a quartet of ships, all measuring over 20,000 gross register tons, dubbed The Big Four, the other three being RMS Celtic, RMS Cedric, and RMS Adriatic.
Ship colours: black hull with gold line, red boot-topping, upper works white, funnels: White Star Buff RMS Cedric was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line . She was the second of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, dubbed the Big Four , and was the largest vessel in the world at the time of her entering service.
Adriatic just before launching, September 1906. At the end of the 19th century, White Star Line, under the leadership of Thomas Henry Ismay, changed its policy to embark on the construction of ships which no longer sought to dominate in the area of speed, but to transport passengers en masse and regularly on spacious and comfortable liners.
The White Star Line was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually grew 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 ...