White Star Line

LC control no.	nr 93007311
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	White Star Line *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
See also	Oceanic Steam Navigation Company *Browse this term in* LC Authorities Cunard-White Star, ltd. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Found in	Atterbury family. Papers, 1834-1990 (White Star Line; trade name of a transatlantic shipping service; originally used by American operators of sailing ships; rights to name acquired by Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, of England, 1869) The Ships' List web site (March 16, 2004): (White Star Line, from 1869 on known as White Star Line); (Cunard-White Star Limited, formed by merger of Cunard and White Star Line in 1934) English Wikipedia website, viewed Dec. 26, 2012 (The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as just White Star Line, was a highly prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanic's sister ship Britannic. In 1934 the line merged with its chief rival, Cunard Line, which operated as a separate entity until 2005 and is now part of Carnival Corporation & PLC)