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International Mercantile Marine Company

American shipping combine, organized in 1902 by J. P. Morgan & Co., that owned the White Star Line.

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IMM, International Mercantile Marine Co.
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Q1499462

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Timeline 3 dates
  1. 1902 J. P. Morgan & Co. founded International Mercantile Marine Company
  2. 1912 J. Bruce Ismay head of International Mercantile Marine Company
  3. 1912 J. P. Morgan Jr. board member of International Mercantile Marine Company
Proof 2 sources
  1. Report of the Committee Appointed Pursuant to House Resolutions 429 and 504 to Investigate the Concentration of Control of Money and Credit (the Pujo report), U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Currency (text via FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), 28 Feb 1913. Primary record
    This company was organized in 1902 by Morgan & Co. to take over various steamship lines—among them, the American, the Atlantic Transport, the Dominion, the Leyland, the National, the Red Star, and the White Star Lines.
    two of the five voting trustees. (Morgan, K., 1044.) Mr. Morgan, jr., Mr. Steele, and Mr. Perkins are directors.
  2. “Titanic” Disaster: Report of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate (Senate Report 806, 62nd Congress), U.S. Senate (text via the Titanic Inquiry Project), 1912. Primary record
    Mr. J. Bruce Ismay , of Liverpool, England, is president of the International Mercantile Marine Co.
    We interrogated two general officers of the International Mercantile Marine Co., which owned the steamship Titanic
    The International Mercantile Marine Co., through its various ramifications and constituent companies, owns the White Star Line
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