The Titanic carried some of the wealthiest people in the world at the time, many of whom didn't survive following the crash ...

NEW YORK, April 16, 1912 (UP) -- A crowd of men, many of them on the verge of tears, and a very few women crowded into the office of the White Star liner today and remained there, hoping against ...

As the 20th century dawned, the owners of Britain’s White Star Line were thinking big. Really big. They envisioned three huge ocean liners that would be larger and far more luxurious than anything the ...

In April 1912, the RMS Titanic sank in the Atlantic Ocean. Just over a decade earlier, Morgan Robertson’s novel told the story of a strikingly similar trage ...

Of the three ships built by White Star Line only the Olympic was able to survive. Built in 1911 , its first voyage was in June of that same year. It was not without its own problems and damaged ...

A view from the bow of a White Star Line Titanic ship model is displayed as part of Titanic: The Exhibition set to open in Dallas near Belt Line Rd and Preston Rd., February 13, 2025.

A mahogany deck chair, with a tiny White Star Line emblem carved into the headrest, that survived the sinking of the Titanic and that memorabilia collector Chris Lowe, from Swindon in Wiltshire ...

At midnight tonight the officials of the White Star Line were struggling to get into communication with the Cunarder Carpathia, which has on board the 675 women and children saved from the Titanic ...

Rather, the White Star Line swapped ships for the voyage from Southampton to New York, and the ship billed as the top-of-the-line Titanic was actually an older ship: the Olympic.

And that would give White Star an advantage that its business rivals, such as the Cunard Line, could never hope to match. The first of the three, RMS Olympic, was launched with much fanfare in 1911.