As the world started to move into the 1900s, the shipping lines between Europe and North America were already making profits off the immigration to North America. The White Star Line was one of the major players of this immigration business to North America.
They saw that they could make more of a profit in the immigration business by moving more people per trip. So they planned to make ships that carried more than 1,000 immigrants per trip, and they made these ships fast so they made more trips per year.
Watertight compartments made ships safer, so there was more of a reason for these immigrants to use the White Star Line. After years of planning and building, the first of these superships for the White Star Line was launched.
It could handle more than 1,000 immigrants and was the fastest ship ever built for that size. On its maiden voyage, it was going to break the speed records for Atlantic Ocean transit.
Everything was coming together for the White Star Line to start to make money on the immigration business, then, early on the morning of April 15, 1912, the pride of the White Star Line sank shortly after hitting a iceberg.
HMS Titanic is only remembered for the few rich people who died that day, but that day thousands of immigrants died, too, and the world has forgotten them.
Gregory Morrow
Windham
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