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White Star Line

Dissolved 1934

Headquarters: Wales
Founded: 1845
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

1,273

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What White Star Line is

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The White Star Line was a British shipping line. Founded out of the remains of a defunct packet company, it gradually grew to become one of the most prominent shipping companies in the world, providing passenger and cargo services between the British Empire and the United States. While many other shipping lines focused primarily on speed, White Star branded their services by focusing more on providing comfortable passages for both upper class travellers and steerage passengers.

White Star is remembered for its innovative vessel Oceanic, its long-serving flagship Olympic, and for the losses of some of its best passenger liners, including the wrecking of Atlantic in 1873, the sinking of Republic in 1909, the loss of Titanic in 1912, and the wartime sinking of Britannic in 1916. Despite its casualties, the company retained a prominent hold on shipping markets around the globe before falling into decline during the Great Depression. White Star merged in 1934 with its chief rival, the Cunard Line, operating as Cunard-White Star Line until Cunard purchased White Star's share in the joint company in 1950. Cunard then operated as a single company until 2005 and is now part of Carnival Corporation. As a lasting reminder of the White Star Line, modern Cunard ships use the term White Star Service to describe the level of customer service expected of the company.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: subsidiary company
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: Wales
Formed in: Liverpool
Founded: 1845
Dissolved: 1934
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 52.3500, -3.6333

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 104.5 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1911
Newest vessel on record: 1932
Largest vessel by tonnage: 1,273
Average tonnage: 1,273
Market share: —
Parent company: Carnival Corporation
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to White Star Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified3

Cruise ship1

By flag state

United Kingdom3

By shipbuilder

Harland and Wolff3

Cammell Laird1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	2
2018	—	2
2019	—	2
2020	—	2
2021	—	2
2022	—	2
2023	—	2
2024	—	2
2025	—	2
2026	—	2

Vessel records

Ships on record

4 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
SS Nomadic	5161110	Unclassified	—	1911	1,273	—	67.0 m	Harland and Wolff
MV Brisbane Star	5052151	Unclassified	United Kingdom	—	—	—	—	Cammell Laird
MV Georgic	1162365	Unclassified	United Kingdom	1932	—	—	213.7 m	Harland and Wolff
RMS Republic	1118043	Cruise ship	United Kingdom	—	—	—	180.7 m	Harland and Wolff

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How White Star Line compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, White Star Line is the 213th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which White Star Line ranks 16th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 1845, White Star Line is 181 years old. This directory holds 22 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 2 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.