White Star Line
British shipping company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The White Star Line was a British shipping line founded in 1845 in the Liverpool-Australia service, in 1868 it would be renamed the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (OSNC) now operating via North America, throughout its history it would be one of the most important shipping companies in the British Empire until its merger with the rival Cunard Line in 1934.
Company type | Partnership |
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Industry | Shipping, transportation |
Founded | 1845; 179 years ago (1845) in Liverpool, England |
Defunct | 1934; 90 years ago (1934) |
Fate | Forced merger with Cunard Line by the British Government |
Successor | Cunard White Star Line |
Area served | Transatlantic |
Parent | Ismay, Imrie and Co. |
Website | www |
This shipping company is best known for being the owner of the famous ocean liner RMS Titanic, famous for having sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after colliding with an iceberg, also for having owned the HMHS Britannic, which sank in the Aegean Sea in Greece during WWI, and the RMS Olympic. the only Olympic-class ocean liner to have survived until her scrapping at Rosyth, Scotland along with the Mauretania in 1935.