The International Mercantile Marine Company, originally the International Navigation Company, was a trust formed in the early twentieth century as an attempt by J.P. Morgan to monopolize the shipping
International Mercantile Marine Company 1922
John Pierpont Morgan, founder and owner of the IMM Co.
The Regina sailed for the Dominion Line and White Star Line before being transferred to the Red Star Line under the name of Westernland.
The IMM company vice president released a statement following the sinking of the RMS Titanic, assuring that despite the lack of communication from the ship, she was "unsinkable".
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United States Lines was an organization of the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation, created to operate German liners seized by the United States in 1917. The ships were owned by
International Mercantile Marine Company
…it emerged from the receivership in 1916. Saved by World War I, IMM eventually re-emerged, after a merger with Roosevelt Steamship Company, as the United States Lines, which itself went bankrupt in 1986. A proposed subsidy bill in the United States Congress failed, which became widely apparent by April 1902 and the…
Princess Alice, later Princess Matoika, circa 1914–16
SS United States at sea in 1952
Econships American Nebraska and American Kentucky laid up in New York, 1987