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WSL White Star Line

United Kingdom · Defunct: merged with Cunard, 1934 · HQ: Liverpool

Titanic's owner, the Liverpool line that bet on size and comfort over speed.

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Biggest ship–
Group / allianceDefunct: merged with Cunard, 1934
Founded1845
MarkWSL
Historical ships1
The whole fleet

Every White Star Line ship, in brief

White Star Line's fleet belongs to history: the Olympic class (Olympic, Titanic, Britannic) crowned an Edwardian fleet of more than twenty liners before the company merged into Cunard-White Star in 1934.

We profile the flagships in full below, the rest of the fleet joins ships.fyi class by class.

The fleet

What White Star Line operates

Full coverage of this line’s fleet is in build, the profile below is here because the line matters to the story of the giants.

Operated Titanic, the most famous ship ever built →
The history

Gone from the fleet

Good to know

White Star Line, in a few facts

  • Ordered the Olympic class, Olympic, Titanic and Britannic, as the largest moving objects yet built, challenging Cunard on luxury rather than pace.
  • Lost Titanic in 1912 and Britannic, serving as a hospital ship, to a mine in 1916; only Olympic had a full career.
  • Merged with arch-rival Cunard in 1934 during the Depression, the combined company's ships flew both house flags for decades.
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