As the 20th century dawned, the owners of Britain’s White Star Line were thinking big. Really big. They envisioned three huge ...

When the first announcement was made last night that ... would be made public as soon as possible. This came to the White Star line by wireless, but the work of compiling it was slow, as it ...

Three years earlier, the pier’s neighbor, Pier 59, was drawn as the final docking point for the White Star Line ship, the RMS Titanic, which sunk in April of 1912 after hitting an iceberg ...

Bruce Ismay, managing director of the IMM and president and chairman of the White Star Line, decided not to try ... destroying the first watertight compartment and giving her passengers and ...

the Royal Mail was the first to adopt the device. When there happened to be bargains in ships. Royal Mail bought them. Now its fleets, including the 500,000 tons of the White Star Line ...

The master of the Titanic was the commodore of the White Star Line, Captain Edward John Smith. He had also been the first master of the Olympic and, therefore, had had a year's familiarity with ...