Who owned the Titanic?

Well, if you follow the paper trail and get passed White Star and some other corporations, it will lead you to John Pierpont Morgan.

At the time, 75% of the merchant ships of the world were his property.

Who Really Owned The Titanic?
The Titanic, registered as a British mail ship was really owned by the American railroad tycoon, J.P. Morgan. He had most of the controlling interest in the American railroads and was looking to expand his ownership to seize control of the Atlantic shipping trade. He succeeded in acquiring the White Star Line in 1902. White Star had asked the City of New York to enlarge and extend the piers to accommodate their new super liners and were flatly refused. The City stated that the long piers would extent too far into the Hudson river causing a hazard to navigation. They were subtly persuaded by Morgan who all but owned the docks of New York and had the means to choke the City's import and export trade.
J.P. Morgan had his very own private suite and promenade deck on the Titanic. He was supposed to join her for her maiden voyage but canceled passage sparing him the fate of many of the other millionaires.

The owner was Oceanic Steam Navigation Company

not sure but was part of the white star line if that helps in your search

Titanic was a White Star Line ocean liner built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast

Either the guy who owned it or who built it has said - even God cannot sink this ship.. and it sank in ist very first voyage.. strange.

The White Star Line owned and operated the R.M.S. Titanic

Who ever did must be kicken himself. Unsinkable eh, guess he didnt insure it before its maiden voyage.

It was an Olympic class passenger liner that became infamous for its collision with an iceberg and dramatic sinking in 1912. The second of a trio of superliners, she and her sisters, RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic, were designed to provide a three-ship weekly express service and dominate the transatlantic travel business for the White Star Line. Built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland, Titanic was the largest passenger steamship in the world at the time of her sinking.

During Titanic's maiden voyage (from Southampton, England; to Cherbourg, France; Queenstown (Cobh), Ireland; then New York), she struck an iceberg at 11:40 PM (ship's time) on Sunday evening April 14, 1912, broke into two pieces, and sank two hours and forty minutes later at 2:20 AM Monday morning April 15.

According to the United States Senate investigation, 1,523 people perished in the accident, ranking it as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history and by far the most famous. Titanic's design used some of the most advanced technology available at the time and the ship was popularly believed to be "unsinkable." It was a great shock that, despite the advanced technology and experienced crew, Titanic sank with a great loss of life. The media frenzy about Titanic's famous victims, the legends about what happened on board the ship, the resulting changes to maritime law, and the discovery of the wreck in 1985 by a team led by Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel have made Titanic persistently famous in the years since.

The ship's sinking is the plotline of the highest-grossing film of all time, the Leonardo DiCaprio-Kate Winslet movie Titanic (1997) which reintroduced the legacy of the disaster to younger generations of the late 20th century

The Brittanic Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool next to Lime Street Station has a function room that is an exact replica of the Titanic's state room, The legend lives on.

The White Star Line.

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