The White Star Line was originally founded in 1845 by Henry Threlfall and John Pilkington. The shipping line operated a fleet of sailing clippers, sailing from Great Britain to Australia.
In 1867, the Bank of Liverpool went bankrupt, which left the White Star Line with a debt of £527,000, which resulted in the bankruptcy of the White Star Line.
On 18 January 1868, the White Star Line flag and name were purchased by Thomas Ismay for £1,000. The first ship built for the White Star Line (under the ownership of T Ismay) was the Oceanic, built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast in 1870.
On November 23, 1899, Thomas Ismay died and by this time his son J Bruce Ismay had taken over his father as head of the White Star Line.
In 1902, the White Star line was purchased by IMM, led by JP Morgan. J Bruce Ismay remained with the company as managing director and became the president of IMM.
On 10 April 1912, RMS Titanic, the sister ship to RMS Olympic, collided with an iceberg on 14 April and sank with 1496 losing their lives. The Titanic disaster is one of the worst disasters in maritime history.
J Bruce Ismay retired as president of the IMM in 1913 and left the White Star Line at the same time.
In 1927, White Star Line was purchased from IMM by Lord Kylsant and it wasn't long before White Star Line was in dire financial straits, mainly caused by the Great Depression and Lord Kylsants taking over the line.
The last ship built for the White Star line, Georgic (II), in 1931
On 10 May 1934, former rivals Cunard and White Star merged, so the British government would give them around £10 million to finally complete Cunards Queen Mary. The new company resulting from the merger was called Cunard White Star.
In December 1949, the last shares of the White Star line were purchased and the White Star portion of Cunard White Star was removed.
The SS Nomadic (1911) has recently been returned to Belfast, where it has been restored and opened to the public after being in France for many years.
The Cunard line is still in operation and has one of the largest passenger ships in the world, the Queen Mary 2, which has been in service since January 2004, the Queen Victoria, which entered service in 2007, the Queen Elizabeth, which entered service in 2010 and the future Queen Anne ship due to enter service in 2023
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The RMS Queen Mary is now a hotel and tourist attraction in Long Beach, California. The ship has also played host to many movies, the most recent being the 'Titanic 666' movie released in March 2022.
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