Red Star Line

Red Star Line
Company typeJoint venture
IndustryShipping, transportation
Founded1871 (1871)
Defunct1935
FateAssets sold
SuccessorHolland America Line
Area served
Transatlantic

The Red Star Line was a shipping line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium. The company's main ports of call were Antwerp in Belgium, Liverpool and Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City and Philadelphia in the United States.