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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 ...
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 Gaelic was a passenger and cargo liner built for the White Star Line. She transported the first 102 Korean immigrants to the United States . Sold in 1905 for further service in the Pacific , she was scrapped in 1907.
SS Afric was a steamship built for White Star Line by Harland and Wolff shipyards. She was of the Jubilee class, had a reported gross register tonnage of 11,948, and had a port of registry of Liverpool, England. [1] Afric was launched on November 16, 1898, and was involved in shipping between Liverpool and Australia. [2]
She departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 11 February 1898. She quickly proved to be very popular on the North Atlantic, particularly with immigrants. She spent the first five years of her career on the White Star Line's main passenger service route between Liverpool and New York, until 1903 when she was transferred to White Star's newly acquired Liverpool-Boston route, which she sailed ...
RMS Teutonic was an ocean liner built for the White Star Line in Belfast, which entered service in 1889.She was the sister ship of RMS Majestic. Teutonic and her sister were the flagships of White Star Line's fleet for around a decade, until Oceanic entered service in 1899.
SS Celtic was an ocean liner built for the White Star Line by shipbuilders Harland and Wolff of Belfast.. The Celtic, the first of two White Star ships to bear the name, was the last of six Oceanic-class liner commissioned by White Star; she and her older sister Adriatic were ordered following the success of what was originally a series of four.
In 1926 RMSP took over White Star Line, and Orca was one of several RMSP ships transferred to the White Star fleet. She was refitted again, second class was renamed "tourist class", and her accommodation was increased to a total of 1,170 passengers: 290 first class, 550 tourist class and 330 third class. [ 3 ]