J. P. Morgan IMM Combine - Titanic Commutator - 1Q 2001

Front Cover of The Titanic Commutator: The Official Journal For The Titanic Historical Society, Inc. for Issue 151 circa November 2000. GGA Image ID # 10436fecf3

On The Front cover: Another brochure printed in the 1920s depicting the Celtic, one of White Star's 'Big Four,' now an older liner being advertised as 'Famous Cabin Liners to Europe' featuring White Star and Red Star liners touting their spacious cabin class service amenities being comparable to those of a high-class English club.

This issue features an in-depth article about the JP Morgan Combine of several transatlantic shipping companies in 1902 called the International Mercantile Marine Company.

THE WHITE STAR LINE IN THE “MORGAN COMBINE"
(International Mercantile Marine Company)

By William B. Saphire

The illustrations are from the Karen Kamuda Collection unless noted otherwise.

The late Mr. William Saphire, a THS member since the late 1960s, was a news writer from Brooklyn. New York, who had a general interest in ships. He made his first voyage in September 1932 on the M/S Vulcania of the Consulich Line and returned on the Cunarder Berengaria.

On that same day he saw the Olympic for the first lime under pilotage in the North River, he saw her again in the summer two years later from Nortons Point in Brooklyn and noted that the wash she created had lifeguards clearing the beach which minutes later was flooded by her "tidal wave."

He traveled on more than forty ships and was advertising manager from 1955-67 for Zim Lines. His articles have been published in The Compass, Ships and the Sea, and Sea Breezes.

CONTENTS

• The Olympic Restaurant on Millennium
  by Peter Newall
• Wages Paid to Titanic's Officers and Crew
  by Earl J. Chapman
• The White Star Line in the Morgan Combine
  by William B. Saphire
• Sea Poste
• Titanic Faker is Fined
  by Paul Louden-Brown
• A Mystery is Solved
  by George Behe
• RMS Olympic's Officers
  by Inger Sheil
• Memento From Jack Thayer
• Items from the THS Oceanliner Store
• Halifax Convention 2001

Back Cover of The Titanic Commutator: The Official Journal For The Titanic Historical Society, Inc. for Issue 151 circa November 2000. GGA Image ID # 1044491d40

On the Back Cover: A 1920s White Star-Dominion Line brochure offering the traveler "...unique advantages of going to Europe by the St. Lawrence route with sailings every Saturday during the summer. The new Regina and Doric combine every modern improvement in the art of catering to the comfort of ocean passengers." The older Megantic and Canada were relegated to cabin class, which in the following advertisement aimed at the modest budget traveler, the description was attractive.

Publication Information

The Journal of Record of the Titanic Historical Society, Inc., Published Quarterly

The Titanic Commutator A Quarterly Journal Devoted to Original Research into Ocean Liners. Thirty-Eight Years of Continuous Publication.

Volume 24, Number 151, 2000 | Publication date: November 2000

THE TITANIC COMMUTATOR

Published quarterly and continuously for nearly forty years by The Titanic Historical Society, Inc., (ISSN 004-8182) and mailed from Springfield, Massachusetts, the journal has been the groundbreaker in providing primary source materials.

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