This HTML5 document contains 22 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

Subject Item

n2:

rdfs:label

White Star Line White Star Line White Star Line

rdfs:comment

The first company bearing the name White Star Line was founded in Liverpool, England by John Pilkington and Henry Threlfall Wilson, and focused on the U.K. - Australia trade, which had increased following the discovery of gold there. The fleet initially consisted of chartered sailing ships, RMS Tayleur, the Blue Jacket (later renamed White Star), the Red Jacket, the Ellen and the Iowa. The fate of Tayleur, the largest ship of its day, would haunt the company for years, for it was wrecked on its maiden voyage to Australia off the coast of Ireland. The company acquired its first steamship in 1863, which was called the Royal Standard. thumb La Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, mejor conocida como White Star Line, fue una importante compañía naviera británica dedicada al transporte de pasajeros y carga durante el siglo XIX y XX.

owl:sameAs

dbr:White_Star_Line

dcterms:subject

n20: n21:

n3:

es.white-star-line

n4:

n5:

n15:wikiPageUsesTemplate

n16:

n17:wikiPageUsesTemplate

n18:

n22:

wiki que se dedica a recopilar todo sobre la white star line

n9:

abril de 2015

n24:

Foxy cristal gem

n25:

Abandonada

n23:

Wikia White Star Line

n6:abstract

The first company bearing the name White Star Line was founded in Liverpool, England by John Pilkington and Henry Threlfall Wilson, and focused on the U.K. - Australia trade, which had increased following the discovery of gold there. The fleet initially consisted of chartered sailing ships, RMS Tayleur, the Blue Jacket (later renamed White Star), the Red Jacket, the Ellen and the Iowa. The fate of Tayleur, the largest ship of its day, would haunt the company for years, for it was wrecked on its maiden voyage to Australia off the coast of Ireland. The company acquired its first steamship in 1863, which was called the Royal Standard. The original White Star Line merged with other small lines, the Black Ball and Eagle Lines to form a conglomerate called the Liverpool, Melbourne and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Limited. This did not prosper and White Star broke away and concentrated on the Liverpool to New York service. Heavy investment in new ships was financed by borrowing, but the company's bank, the Royal Bank of Liverpool, failed in October 1867 leaving the company with an outstanding debt of £527,000, and it was forced into bankruptcy. The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company Thomas Ismay, a director of the National Line, purchased the house flag, trade name White Star Line, and goodwill of the bankrupt company for 1,000 pounds sterling on 18 January 1868, with the intention of operating large ships on the North Atlantic service. Ismay established the company's headquarters at the Albion House, Liverpool. Over a game of billiards with Gustav Christian Schwabe, a prominent Liverpool merchant, and his nephew, Gustav Wilhelm Wolff, Ismay was told that if he agreed to have his ships built by Wolff's company, Harland and Wolff, Schwabe would agree to finance the new line. Ismay agreed, and a partnership with Harland and Wolff was established. The shipbuilders received their first orders on 30 July 1869. The agreement was that Harland and Wolff would build the ships at cost plus a fixed percentage and would not build any vessels for the White Star's rivals. In 1870 William Imrie joined the managing company. As the first ship was being commissioned, Ismay formed the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company to operate the steamers in the process of construction. Six ships were initially constructed for the Oceanic class; the Oceanic, Atlantic, Baltic, and Republic, followed by the slightly larger Celtic and Adriatic, and the line began operating again in 1871 between New York and Liverpool (with a call at Queenstown (Cobh)). It has long been customary for many shipping lines to have a common theme for the names of its ships. In the case of the White Star Line, this was to use the suffix -ic (e.g. Titanic, similarly to Cunard's use of -ia (e.g. Carpathia) or the Allan Line's use of -ian (i.e. S.S. Parisian). The line also adopted a buff-coloured funnel with a black top as a distinguishing feature for its ships, as well as its distinctive house flag, a red broad pennant with two tails with a white five-pointed star. For the rest of the nineteenth century the White Star Line would own such famous ships as Britannic, Germanic, Teutonic and Majestic. Several of these ships would eventually take the Blue Riband, awarded to the fastest ship to make the Atlantic crossing. In 1899 Thomas Ismay commissioned one of the most beautiful steam ships constructed during the nineteenth century, the Oceanic (II). She was the first ship to exceed the Great Eastern in length (although not tonnage). The building of this ship marked the point where White Star departed from competition in speed with her rivals and concentrated solely on comfort and economy of operation. Between 1901 and 1907, a quartet of ships known as The Big Four, all around 24,000 tons, were brought into service: Celtic, Cedric, Baltic and Adriatic. These ships were designed to carry massive numbers of passengers as they each had the accommodations for 400 passengers in First and Second Class, and over 2,000 in Third Class. In addition to that, they had extremely large cargo capacities, with large holds able of containing up to 17,000 tons of general cargo. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the efficiency of coal engines only allowed a feasible speed of about 24 knots (44.4 km/h/27.6 mph). Going above this speed introduced a logarithmic proportion in direct relation to fuel consumption and speed, in that for every knot increased, the required fuel was the previous fuel required plus itself. For this reason, the White Star Line committed to comfort and reliability rather than to speed. As an example, the Titanic was designed for travel at 21 knots (39 km/h), while the Cunard Line's Mauretania held the speed record in 1926 for 27 knots (48 km/h). In 1902 the White Star Line was absorbed into the International Mercantile Marine Co. (IMM), a large American shipping conglomerate. By 1903 IMM had managed to absorb the American Line, Dominion Line, Atlantic Transport Line, Leyland Line, and Red Star Line. They also came to trade agreements with the German lines Hamburg-Amerika and Norddeutscher Lloyd. Bruce Ismay ceded control to IMM in the face of intense pressure from shareholders and J.P. Morgan, who threatened a rate war. thumb La Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, mejor conocida como White Star Line, fue una importante compañía naviera británica dedicada al transporte de pasajeros y carga durante el siglo XIX y XX.

Subject Item

n13:

n14:

n2:

n26:

n2:

Subject Item

n11:

n12:

n2: