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Ship Built White Star service GRT Notes Image Oceanic: 1870: 1870–1895: 3,707: Launched in 1870 by Harland and Wolff for White Star trans-Atlantic routes. Chartered by O&O Lines in 1875. Scrapped at Thames in 1895. The first steamship for the White Star Line, and often referred to as the Mother of Modern Liners. [3] Atlantic: 1871: 1871 ...
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 Jubilee class were a group of five passenger and cargo ocean liners built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, for the White Star Line, specifically for the White Star Line's service from the UK to Australia on the Liverpool – Cape Town – Sydney route. The five ships in order of the dates they entered service were: SS Afric (1899) SS Medic ...
International Mercantile Marine Company. The International Mercantile Marine Company, originally the International Navigation Company, was a trust formed in the early twentieth century as an attempt by J.P. Morgan to monopolize the shipping trade. IMM was founded by shipping magnates Clement Griscom of the American Line and Red Star Line ...
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 ...
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%.
In April 2023, the Belfast yard completed its first new vessel since Anvil Point in 2003. It is a barge for the waste management company, Cory, the first of an order for 23 such craft. From 2025 the yard is expecting to complete the final assembly of three naval support ships for the Royal Navy as part of the Team Resolute Consortium. [31]
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)