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The first company bearing the name White Star Line was founded in Liverpool, England, by John Pilkington and Henry Wilson in 1845. [2] [3] It focused on the UK–Australia trade, which increased following the discovery of gold in Australia in 1851. Because of this, many wished to emigrate to Australia, and the population of Australia increased ...
8,090. Launched by Harland and Wolff in 1910 for White Star, serves cargo New Zealand routes jointly with Shaw, Savill and Albion Line, used as troop carrier in WWI. Sold to Aberdeen Line in 1926 under Mamilius. Sold back to SS&A in 1932 under Mamari, renamed ' Mamari III in 1934 serving Australian routes.
RMS. Baltic. (1903) 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 ...
Oceanic House is a grade II listed former office building at 1 Cockspur Street, in the City of Westminster, London. It was designed by Henry Tanner junior [ 1] and was completed in 1907. It was originally the London headquarters of the White Star Line from which tickets for the RMS Titanic were sold. It later became a Barclays Bank, was used by ...
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. Her career, peppered with collisions and minor incidents, took place mainly on the route from Liverpool to New York.
The White Star Line had long since broken that mould. As seen aboard Titanic, all White Star Line passenger ships divided their Third Class accommodations into two sections, always at opposite ends of the vessel from one another. The established arrangement was that single men were quartered in the forward areas, while single women, married ...
White Star Line's illustration of Titanic ' s first-class dining saloon. On D Deck, there was an enormous first-class dining saloon, 114 ft. long x 92 ft. wide. Measuring 1,000 m 2 in area, it was the largest room on board any ship in 1912, and accommodated up to 554 passengers. [52]
SS. Atlantic. (1870) SS Atlantic was a transatlantic ocean liner of the White Star Line, and second ship of the Oceanic-class. The ship operated between Liverpool, United Kingdom, and New York City, United States. During the ship's 19th voyage, on 1 April 1873, she struck rocks and sank off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, killing at least 535 ...