The White Star Line was a British shipping line founded in Liverpool, England, by John Pilkington and Henry Wilson in 1845. The company was bought by Thomas... Henry Ismay in 1868 and the first ships to be built after the company was bought was the Oceanic and Atlantic. The company quickly became one of the most popular shipping lines in the world and built ships like the Big Four and the Titanic. Today the company is mainly remembered for the Titanic disaster. Read more