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Titanic: White Star Line
built 237 days ago
The Titanic was a White Star Line steamship carrying the British flag. She was built by Harland and Wolff of Belfast, Ireland, at a reported cost of $7.5 million. Her specifications were:
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The first-class passengers for Titanic's maiden voyage included some of the richest and most prominent people in the world. They included millionaire John Jacob Astor IV and his pregnant wife Madeleine;[17] industrialist Benjamin Guggenheim;[18] Macy's department store owner Isidor Straus[19] and his wife Ida;[20] Denver millionaire Margaret "Molly" Brown;[21] Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon and his wife, couturière Lady Duff-Gordon;[22] streetcar magnate George Dunton Widener;[23] Pennsylvania Railroad executive John Borland Thayer and 17-year-old son Jack Thayer;[24] journalist William Thomas Stead;[25] Charles Hays, president of Canada's Grand Trunk Railway;[26] the Countess of Rothes;[27] United States presidential aide Major Archibald Butt;[28] author and socialite Helen Churchill Candee;[29] author Jacques Futrelle, writer and painter Francis Davis Millet;[30] American silent film actress Dorothy Gibson,[31] White Star Line's Managing Director J. Bruce Ismay[32] and from Harland & Wolff builder Thomas Andrews.[33]
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A faithful reproduction of original White Star Line buff-colour stationery with the imprinted White Star burgee logo in red and the Titanic's name at the top left. 10 sheets and 10 envelopes in each package.
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The Titanic was commanded by Commodore Edward John Smith, the White Star Line's most senior captain. The chief officer was to be William Murdoch, but he was demoted to first officer after Smith brought with him his chief officer from the Olympic, Henry T. Wilde.
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