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White Star Line

British shipping company

9 dated entries naming White Star Line, drawn from 9 separate years between 1893 CE and 1928 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1893February 11–19 – White Star Line cargo liner sinks without a trace in heavy seas on the Liverpool–New York transatlantic passage.source
  • 1899January 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.source

20th century

  • 1902May 22 – The White Star Liner SS Ionic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.source
  • 1908July 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 Titanicsource
  • 1909January 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.source
  • 1910October 20 – The hull of White Star ocean liner is launched, at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.source
  • 1912April 10 – White Star liner departs from Southampton, England, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.source
  • 1916November 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.source
  • 1928June 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.source

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