{"slug": "white-star-line", "label": "White Star Line", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Star_Line", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q320466", "qid": "Q320466", "description": "British shipping company", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1893, 1928], "span_label": ["1893 CE", "1928 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "belfast", "label": "Belfast", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aegean-sea", "label": "Aegean Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "southampton", "label": "Southampton", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11–19 – White Star Line cargo liner sinks without a trace in heavy seas on the Liverpool–New York transatlantic passage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#February", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 – The White Star Line's transatlantic ocean liner is launched from the Belfast shipyards in Ireland. At 17,272 gross register tons and 704 ft m, she is the largest ship afloat at this time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#January", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1902, "year_label": "1902 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – The White Star Liner SS Ionic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318639#May", "title": "1902", "revid": 1373318639, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1908, "year_label": "1908 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 27", "text": "July 27–28 – The 1908 Hong Kong typhoon sinks the passenger steamer Ying King, causing 421 deaths.*July 29 - The White Star Line company begins the construction of the Titanic", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373410903#July", "title": "1908", "revid": 1373410903, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – The White Star Line RMS Republic sinks the day after a collision with SS Florida off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373420847#January–February", "title": "1909", "revid": 1373420847, "section": "Events › January–February"}}, {"year": 1910, "year_label": "1910 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "October 20", "text": "October 20 – The hull of White Star ocean liner is launched, at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373495790#October", "title": "1910", "revid": 1373495790, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – White Star liner departs from Southampton, England, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#April", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – WWI: Hospital ship HMHS Britannic, designed as the third for White Star Line, sinks in the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea after hitting a mine; 30 lives are lost. At 48,158 gross register tons, she is the largest ship lost during the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#November", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 – The keel of the first 1,000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the British White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and cancelled on 23 July 1929.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#June", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › June"}}]}