White Star Line

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	THE WHITE STAR White Star Line cast brass five pointed star removed from the White Star office in Liverpool. 26ins....
	WHITE STAR LINE OFFICES IN PARIS 9, rue Scribe...	17th January 1912
Titanic Stories	THE TITANIC & THE BATTLE FOR THE HIGH SEAS: CUNARD V. WHITE STAR LINE White Star Line and Cunard compete for passenger trade across the Atlantic....	16th May 2011
	SS NOMADIC THE LAST WHITE STAR LINE SHIP Telling the story of the White Star Line tender SS Nomadic as she is brought to Belfast for restoration....
New York Times	J. BRUCE ISMAY RETURNS TO ENGLAND J. Bruce Ismay, one of the owners of the White Star Line of steamships, and Hon. W. J. Pirrie of the shipbuilding firm of Harland & Wolff of Belfast, the builders of the White Star steamers, who recently came over on the C...	19th September 1901
Liverpool Echo	THE FAMOUS WHITE STAR LINE WHICH LATER INCLUDED THE TITANIC AMONG ITS FLEET WAS FOUNDED IN LIVERPOOL IN 1869 BY SHIPPING MOGUL THOMAS HENRY ISMAY. Known also as the Ocean Steam Navigation Company, White Star eventually led the way in building prestigious luxury liners such as Titanic and her almost identical sisters Olympic and Britannic.When Ismay died in 1899 his elaborate tomb can still be seen in Thurstaston churchyard, Wirral White Star was the most successful transatlantic passenger line....	23rd June 2008
New-York Tribune	MORGAN COMING ON OLYMPIC Gives Boost to Line Whose Titanic Went to the Bottom --- J. P. Morgan, who organized the International Mercantile Marine Company, is giving a moral boost to the White Star Line, whose steamship Titanic went to ...	20th July 1912
Encyclopaedia of Ships and Shipping (1908)	ISMAY, JAMES [SIC] BRUCE Ismay, James [sic] Bruce (b. Liverpool, 1862). President and Managing Director of the International Mercantile Marine Co. Educated Harrow, and on leaving school entered the office of Messrs. Ismay, Imrie and Co. (White Star Line). After se...	1908
Chicago Inter Ocean	CHICAGOAN CREATES SCENE IN OFFICES OF THE WHITE STAR LINE Special Dispatch to the Inter Ocean New York, April 18—Late this afternoon John Gillespie of Chicago, accompanied by a friend, entered the offices of the White Star line. His voice rang through the big rooms as he demanded informati...	19th April 1912
	BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF TRAFALGAR SQUARE AND ENVIRONS Postcard...
	WHITE STAR LINE KNIFE AND FORK A knife and fork stamped with the White Star Line motif similar to ones used on the Titanic...
New York Times	REWARD CARPATHIA'S CREW White Star Line Makes Gifts---Cunard to Claim No Damages --- By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times --- LONDON, June 10---The White Star Line has announced that the Cunard Company has acceded to ...	11th June 1912
	WHITE STAR LINE TENDER GALLIC, CHERBOURG The GALLIC was the White Star Line's first tender in Cherbourg. It was replaced in 1911 by the NOMADIC and the TRAFFIC, which better fitted the new giant liners OLYMPIC and TITANIC...	1910
	WHITE STAR MEMORIES WSM houses the largest and finest collection of White Star Line artefacts & memorabilia in Europe and specialise in the 'Olympic' class liners; "Olympic", "Titanic" & "Britannic". ...
	BROCHURE SAVED FROM THE TITANIC BY MME LAROCHE Mme Laroche saved a White Star Line brochure from the sinking. This 32 page document contained many pieces of information for second class passengers. From the notes on the cover: 'Nicholas Martin, 9, rue Scribe, Paris', it seems that this brochure w...	1911
	WHITE STAR OFFICES AT 9 RUE SCRIBE, PARIS The White Star offices were situated just in front of the Opera in Paris, at 9, rue Scribe. The offices now houses... Olympic Airline's offices....	1912
	WHITE STAR LINE, LIVERPOOL Postcard...
	1920S WHITE STAR LINE FILM 1920s White Star Line promotional film. VIews include, the reading and writing room; the bugler calling diners to dinner; dinner in the first class dining room; relaxing in the reception room; a passenger in a first class stateroom receives visitors....
	GENUINE WHITE STAR LINE ENVELOPE SAVED BY MME LAROCHE Mme Laroche saved this 'second class' envelope in a pocket of the coat her husband Joseph put on her shoulders minutes before leaving the Titanic. This envelope had contained the passage tickets bought at the Paris offices of the White Star Line, at ...	1912
Le Petit Journal	AN ANGUISHED SISTER Melle Leroy, a maid from Bouvigny-Boyefles (Pas-de-Calais), recently received from her sister who is a chambermaid to the Douglases, a postcard telling her that she was sailing with her employers for New-York. Two days after she received the p...	20th April 1912
The Washington Times	WHITE STAR OFFICIALS SCOUT SEEING OF SMITH LONDON, July 22---The White Star management had no information today concerning the reported reappearance of Captain Smith, of the Titanic, an old shipmate of whom said he saw him on the street in Baltimore last Friday. ...	22nd July 1912
Henry Aldridge and Son	RMS TITANIC AUCTION ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL 2010 Titanic and White Star Line specialists Henry Aldrige and Son have announced their next auction of Titanic, White Star Line and Ocean Liner Memorabilia. Selected lots will be available to view at the Titanic Made in Belfast Exhibition in Belfast April 3rd to April 11th....	16th March 2010
Le Journal de Genève	THE KINK FAMILY Newspaper article...	21st April 1912
	TITANIC CUTLERY RECREATED Arthur Price & Co. were one of the suppliers of premium quality flatware to the luxury dining sections on board the Titanic and other ships in the White Star Line fleet. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Titanic's launch, Arthur Price have recreated the Panel Reed Sterling Silver cutlery used onboard. Each knife features the ship owner, White Star Line's famous logo on its blade, as originally supplied....	30th August 2011
Chicago Daily Journal	"I'M STARVED!" WAS ISMAY'S FIRST WORD "For God's sake get me something to eat. I'm starved. I don't care what it costs or what it is, bring it to me." This was the first statement made by J. Bruce Ismay, directing head of the White Star line, o...	19th April 1912
Breeder’s Gazette	CONTENTED COWS This 1891 illustration from the Breeder’s Gazette shows how cattle were carried aboard the White Star freighters as truly contented cows....	1891
New York Times	ROUSED BY WHITE STAR LINE Liverpool and Queenstown Protest Against Change to Southampton --- LIVERPOOL, Jan. 9---Because of the strong feeling aroused locally by the statement that the White Star Line purposed to divert its steamers to Southampt...	10th January 1907
The Times	FIRST CLASS PASSENGER NUMBERS 21,600 carried First Class by White Star in 1911...	26th January 1912
info	PYEROY WINS TITANIC CONTRACT SS Nomadic was a steamship belonging to the White Star Line, launched on 25 April 1911 in Belfast A Gateshead-based industrial services firm has won a six-figure contract to support the refurbishment of the vessel used to ferry passengers out to RMS Titanic as she lay anchored off the port of Cherbourg on her ill-fated maiden voyage. The 1,273 ton SS Nomadic steamship, used by the White Star Line as a tender for the liners RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, has returned to the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast to undergo a £2 million restoration 100 years after she was constructed there....	26th August 2011
Toronto Daily Star	FORCED TO SIGN, SHE SAYS newspaper cutting...	25th April 1912
New York Times	IRISH M. P.'S PROTEST Want White Star Liners to Continue Calling at Queenstown --- LONDON, March 7---The Postmaster General, Mr. Buxton, to-day received an influential deputation of Irish members of Parliament and representatives of the com...	8th March 1907
Camden Post-Telegram	MR. SUTTON'S BODY SURELY ON THE MORGUE SHIP White Star Line Confirms Report That Mackay-Bennett Has Corpse of Haddonfield Resident --- WRECKAGE SEEN BY ANOTHER STEAMER --- By United Press Wire NEW YORK, April 29---The White Star Line announced to-day that it ...	29th April 1912
New York Times	THE WIDENERS Another of the morning inquiries (at the White Star Line office) was a long distance one from Philadelphia. It was for the news of Mr. and Mrs. George D. Widener and their son, Harry Elkins Widener, who are of the well-known Philadelphia family of th...	17th April 1912
The Times	ECHO OF THE TITANIC DISASTER Action in the French courts Nice, February 9th (1914). An action against the White Star Line arising out of the loss of the Titanic began today before the Civil Court here. The Plaintiff, Mme Navr...	10th February 1914
New-York Tribune	BRUCE ISMAY RESIGNS AS HEAD OF WHITE STAR Long Expected Action Officially Announcd, [sic] but Will Not Go Into Effect Until June 30 Next ---...	1st January 1913
New York Times	[WHITE STAR'S FIRST SAILING FROM SOUTHAMPTON] SOUTHAMPTON, June 5---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which sailed from here at about 1 o'clock this afternoon for New York on her first Western trip from Southampton, was given an enthusiastic send-off, many craft crowd...	6th June 1907
The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City	SALT LAKE MOTHER MAY SUE WHITE STAR Says Steamship Line Must Send Her Son's Body Home --- VICTIM OF THE TITANIC --- Mother Objects to Burial in Halifax, Announced Purpose of Company --- Unless the White Star Line company carries...	4th May 1912
Rockford Register Gazette	COUSIN OF DR. O'LOUGHLIN Myron McSweeney of the Rockford Life Insurance Company office force was a near relative of Dr. W. F. N. O'Loughlin, chief surgeon of the Titanic. Dr. O'Loughlin was the dean of the medical staff of the White Star Line. As he...	16th April 1912
	WHITE STAR LINE TENDER GALLIC, CHERBOURG Broad view of the White Star tender GALLIC in Cherbourg. The GALLIC was replaced in June 1911 by the NOMADIC and the TRAFFIC...	1910
New York Times	JOSEPH BRUCE ISMAY Chairman and Managing Director of the White Star Line --- Joseph Bruce Ismay has been considered one of the most prominent ship owners in the world. As chairman and managing director of the White Star line he took passage on the Titani...	16th April 1912
Breeder’s Gazette	RACEHORSES TRANSPORTED BY WHITE STAR STEAMER Thoroughbred racehorses were frequently passengers aboard the White Star livestock carriers. This illustration, “from a photograph taken on board a White Star steamship,” appeared in the Breeder’s Gazette in March 1893....	March 1893
New York Times	MORE TITANIC CLAIMS FILED Belgian Consul Asks $46,250 for Lost Natives of His Country --- More claims against the White Star Line for damages inflicted by the wreck of the Titanic were received yesterday in the Federal District Court here. Pierre Mali, Belgian C...	13th September 1913
The Times	WHITE STAR OFFICERS' PAY AND CONDITIONS IMPROVED Article...	4th April 1913
Western Morning News	TITANIC DISASTER, WESTCOUNTRY PASSENGERS AND CREW Among those on board the Titanic was a son of Mrs Parsons of Bronshill Road, Torquay. Mr Edward Parsons had been in the service of the White Star Line practically all his life and has a wife and five children at Southampton. He was visiting his mot...	17th April 1912
The Sun (New York)	SKIPPERS OF NEW GIANTS Capt. Haddock to Have the Olympic and Hears of It by Wireless --- The White Star liner Majestic in on Wednesday night, swapped wireless sentiments at sea on Wednesday afternoon with her big sister, the Oceanic, b...	2nd December 1910
New York Times	J. BRUCE ISMAY, 74, TITANIC SURVIVOR Ex-Head of White Star Line Who Retired After Sea Tragedy Dies in London --- LONDON, Oct. 18 (AP)---Joseph Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line and a survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912, died here last night. He was 7...	19th October 1937
New York Times	ADRIATIC'S MAIDEN VOYAGE Great New White Star Liner Leaves Liverpool for New York --- LIVERPOOL, May 8---The White Star Line steamer Adriatic left here to-day for New York. The Adriatic was launched at Belfast last September. She has an...	9th May 1907
New York Times	CHANGE IN COMMODORES Capt. Haddock to Head White Star Line at Increased Pay --- Capt. E. J. Smith, R. N. R., the Commodore of the White Star Line, who is to command the new mammoth liner Olympic, will retire at the end of the present year, it is understoo...	6th June 1911
	INFORMATION FROM THE WILLIAM SALT LIBRARY, STAFFORD Hodgkinson, Leonard. Engineer. Stoke man educated at St. Thomas's School, Stoke. With White Star for several years. WAS forty-six years of age and his birthplace Liverpool. His apprenticeship was served with Messrs. Hartley, Armour and Fanning...
The Evening Telegram	HAD SIXTEEN LIFEBOATS Newspaper article...	16th April 1912

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