What is White Star Line?
{{Infobox company | name = The White Star Line | logo = Whitestarline.svg | type = Partnership | industry = Shipping, transportation | fate = Forced merger with [[Cunard Line]] by the British Government | successor = [[Cunard-White Star Line|Cunard White Star Line]] | foundation = {{start date and age|1845}} in [[Liverpool]], England | defunct = {{End date and age|1934}} | area_served = Transatlantic | products = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | num_employees = | parent = Ismay, Imrie and Co. | subsid = | footnotes = | homepage = {{URL|http://www.cunard.co.uk}} }} The '''White Star Line''' was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Shipping company|shipping line]] founded in [[1845]] in the [[Liverpool]]-[[Australia]] service, in [[1868]] it would be renamed the '''Oceanic Steam Navigation Company''' ('''OSNC''') now operating via [[North America]], throughout its history it would be one of the most important shipping companies in the [[British Empire]] until its merger with the rival [[Cunard Line]] in [[1934]]. This shipping company is best known for being the owner of the famous [[ocean liner]] [[Titanic|RMS Titanic]], famous for having sunk in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] after colliding with an [[iceberg]], also for having owned the [[HMHS Britannic]], which sank in the [[Aegean Sea]] in [[Kingdom of Greece|Greece]] during [[World War I|WWI]], and the [[RMS Olympic]]. the only [[Olympic-class]] ocean liner to have survived until her scrapping at Rosyth, Scotland along with the Mauretania in [[1935]]. == History == ===Origins=== [[File:House flag of White Star Line.svg|thumb|180px|White Star Line flag]] [[File:Tayleur.jpg|thumb|[[RMS Tayleur|The ''Tayleur'']]]] The Company was founded in [[1845]] for transport between uuithe [[British Isles]] and [[Australia]]<ref name=Ferulli>{{harvnb|Corrado Ferruli|2004|p=65}}.</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Roy Anderson|1964|p=2}}</ref> by ''John Pilkington'' and ''Henry Wilson'',<ref>{{harvnb|Roy Anderson|1964|p=3}}.</ref> due to the start of the [[Australian Gold