Talk:White Star Line

Gustavus C. Schaube

According to [1] the Harland deal was a condition of Gustavus C. Schaube financing the company.--Jirate 23:19, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)

Added this info...thanks for pointing it out. Akradecki 17:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Ship names

Why did all the cruise vessiles ended with suffix "ic"? if you know please explain to me at ohyeahilovegirlz22@yahoo.com

Company tradition. Just like the Cunard ships ended with "ia". Akradecki 16:17, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Flags

Photographs of Britannic and Georgic from the 1950's clearly show the White Star burgee flying below the Cunard house flag. I've changed the reference on this page at least twice, if I recall, and each time it's been changed back. I'g going to do it once again, and if it's changed again, so be it.Mab819c 16:44, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

It was changed again barely ten minutes later. At this point, I give up.Mab819c 18:15, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

The reason it was changed back was because you provided no explanation, no documentation or citations for your claim. If there are images, at least provide a link to one. AKRadecki^Speaketh 18:36, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

1. The original statement contained no eplanation, documentation or citation, either. 2. None of the photos are online, so I can't provide a link; I will, within a day of two, provided some book page references to such photos. 3. Anderson's White Star, a classic history of the White Star Line, states this.

Just out of curiosity, the few times I've tried to add footnotes or citations to Wikipedia articles (not this one), I've found that they too have been removed, with an explanation that they were either improper or not permitted. Is there a standard for this?Best wishes.Mab819c 19:33, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

The book reference would be fine. Proper format can be found at WP:CITET and WP:FN. If you find properly formated references/footnotes being removed, let me know. Removing legit sources is not a cool thing around here. AKRadecki^Speaketh 19:35, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Name

Some sources call it the "White Star Shipping Company". Is this incorrect and if so, why do people use this other name? Malick78 (talk) 10:16, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

It is incorrect; the correct corporate name was Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. The only time there was a corporate entity with "White Star: in its name was during the Royal Mail era, when the stock of OSNC was owned by a Royal Mail subsidiary called "White Star Line, Ltd."Mab819c (talk) 02:47, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

RMSPC was not Cunard

There seems to have been a misapprehension that the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company was connected with or a predecessor of Cunard; this is not so, see the article on RMSPC (as it is today at least) for details. Lord Kylsant was the chairman of RMSPC. White Star was bought by RMSPC in 1927, then RMSPC was liquidated, and a new company, Royal Mail Lines, created. I don't know exactly what happened to White Star between the liquidation of the RMSPC group and merger with Cunard. Pol098 (talk) 13:15, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

After White Star was split off from Royal Mail it was once again an independent company, with Lord Essendon as its chairman, and remained independent until the 1934 merger with Cunard.Mab819c (talk) 02:49, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Fix the first paragraph

The last line of the first paragraph is very ambiguous. Was White Star operated as a separate line after the merger with Cunard in 1934, or was Cunard operated as a separate line until 2005? Both are grammatically correct, and I have no idea which is right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.129.155 (talk) 19:06, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Fleet events

I've reverted the removal of the Fleet events section. Major shipping lines such as White Star can be considered to be the equivalent of airlines today. Many airline articles have an "accidents and incidents" section, and the fleet events section performs the same purpose.

I've removed the "list-to-prose" and "unreferenced" tags. The section is fine presented as a bullet point list, similar to many airline articles. It does not, as far as I can tell, require any references, as the loss of each ship is verifiable by at least one linked article mentioned in the text. Mjroots (talk) 06:20, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Contacting the company today

Hi, I am trying to find contact information for the current form of the White Star Line, I googled "Oceanic Steam Navigation Company" but have not been able to find anything to further get details of its first ship the Ben Nevis according to "Wooden Ships and Iron Men" by Frederick William Wallace, 1937 p. 57. Hopefully someone can help. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kargin (talk • contribs) 15:36, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Page redirection

This page should be redirected to Cunard Line, since White Star Line is now a branch of Cunard. King Of Aviators (talk) 22:24, 27 February 2011 (UTC)