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White Star Line

British shipping company

17 dated entries naming White Star Line, drawn from 11 separate years between 1870 CE and 1929 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

  • 187027 August – White Star's first ocean liner RMS Oceanic is launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.source
  • 18731 April – the White Star liner RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, 547 die.source
  • 189311–19 February – White Star Line SS Naronic sinks without trace in heavy seas on the Liverpool–New York transatlantic passage.source
  • 1893February 11–19 – White Star Line cargo liner SS Naronic 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 RMS Oceanic is launched from the Belfast shipyards in Ireland. At 17,272 gross register tons and 704 ft, 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
  • 190222 May – The White Star Liner SS Ionic was launched by Harland and Wolff in Belfast.source
  • 190222 May – 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 RMS Olympic is launched, at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.source
  • 191214–15 April – the sinking of the Titanic: White Star liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks on her maiden voyage from the United Kingdom to the United States.source
  • 1912April 10 – White Star liner RMS Titanic departs from Southampton, England, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.source
  • 1912April 19 – The United States Senate initiates an official inquiry into the RMS Titanic disaster, hastily issuing subpoenas for White Star personnel before they can return to the United Kingdom.source
  • 192828 June – The keel of the first 1000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, Oceanic, for the White Star Line, is laid by Harland and Wolff in Belfast; construction is delayed, and will be cancelled in 1929.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
  • 192923 July – Construction of the first 1000 ft (300 m)-long ocean liner, RMMV Oceanic, for the White Star Line, begun by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1928, is cancelled.source

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