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The New York Times quoted Haas as saying, "As good as the Titanic was in her day, it would be a practical and financial disaster" due to the relative lack of onboard activities and modern amenities such as theaters, casinos, and waterslides, compared to today's cruise ships. [53] Cunard Line, which acquired the White Star Line legacy when the ...
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.
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.
The agreement was completed on 30 December 1933. The merger took place on 10 May 1934, creating Cunard-White Star Limited. White Star contributed ten ships to the new company while Cunard contributed fifteen. Due to this arrangement, and since Hull 534 was Cunard's ship, Cunard owned 62% of the new company, with White Star owning the remaining 38%.
SS Baltic (1871) RMS Baltic (1903) SS Bardic. SS Belgic (1873) SS Belgic (1885) Big Four (White Star Line) SS Bovic. HMHS Britannic. SS Britannic (1874)
Capacity. 2,435 passengers. Crew. 950. RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line 's trio of Olympic -class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic.
In 1899, White Star Line commissioned the RMS Oceanic, which exceeded the SS Great Eastern in length but not tonnage. After Thomas Ismay's death, the order of Oceanic ' s sister-ship, Olympic was cancelled. Instead, resources were transferred to the company's new project; to build the grandest fleet of ships that had ever sailed the seas, the ...
In 1911, the ship was replaced in the White Star lineup by the new Olympic and transferred to sister company Dominion Line for Canadian service. By the end of her career on White Star's UK-US services, she had carried a total of 209,466 passengers westbound [ 4 ] and another 125,720 eastbound [ 5 ] for a total of 335,186 passengers carried.