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Sold to White Star in 1908 used as a cadet training vessel for Australian routes, sold in 1915 to Norwegian owners multiple times under Transatlantic and Dvergso. Scrapped in 1923. Laurentic: 1908: 1908–1917: 14,892: Launched by Harland and Wolff in 1908 ordered by Dominion Line originally Alberta but IMM transferred ship to White Star under ...
SS Traffic was a tender of the White Star Line, and the fleetmate to the Nomadic.She was built for the White Star Line by Harland and Wolff, at Belfast, to serve the Olympic-class ocean liners.
Ships of the White Star Line (2 C, 94 P) Pages in category "White Star Line" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
RMS Majestic was an ocean liner which entered service in 1890 and was operated by the White Star Line. She was the sister ship of RMS Teutonic. Majestic and her sister were the flagships of White Star Line's fleet for around a decade, until Oceanic entered service in 1899. She had a total career of 24 years, until being scrapped in 1914.
Joseph Bruce Ismay (/ ˈ ɪ z m eɪ /; [1] 12 December 1862 [2] – 17 October 1937) was an English businessman who served as chairman and managing director of the White Star Line. [3] He was the highest-ranking White Star official to survive the 1912 sinking of the company's flagship RMS Titanic.
Baltic served White Star on the North Atlantic run for 17 years, except for two brief periods in 1883 and 1885 when she was chartered to the Inman Line. In 1888 she was sold to the Holland America Line and renamed Veendam , in 1890 she had new engines fitted, and in February 1898, she struck a submerged derelict wreck, and sank without any loss ...
Rod Stewart has agreed to sell the rights to his song catalogue to Iconic Artists Group in a deal worth almost $100m (£79m).. Stewart, 79, has enjoyed a lengthy solo career since his time in rock ...
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 ...