SS Vedic

The Vedic was a 1918 put into service passenger ship in the British shipping company White Star Line. They first sailed the North Atlantic route and served after 1925 in the emigrant traffic to Australia. After the merger of White Star Line with the Cunard Line, the Vedic was scrapped in Scotland in 1934.

The ship

The 9,332 -ton steam ship Vedic was built by Harland and Wolff in Govan in Glasgow and launched on December 18, 1917 from the stack. The 140 meters long and 17.77 meters wide ship was the first ship of the American shipping company International Mercantile Marine Company, which was not built specifically for one of its incorporated shipping companies. The Vedic had a chimney, two masts and two propellers and was able to drive a maximum of 14 nodes.

The Vedic was completed in July 1918 ultimately for the White Star Line. Since it was planned as a pure emigrant ship, she had only third class accommodations and could carry 1,250 travelers. She was the first ship of the White Star fleet, which was only driven by steam turbines. Due to the war it was completed just as a troop transport. On 11 July 1918, she ran in Belfast on her maiden voyage on Liverpool to Boston, where she was preparing for her troop trips.

By April 1919, the ship was under the Liner Requisition Theme of the British Government, in September 1919, the Vedic with the repatriation of British troops from Russia was used. In 1920, she was overtaken in Middlesbrough and took in August of the same year for the first time their passenger services from Liverpool to Quebec to Montreal. Between 22 December 1921 and 6 April 1922, the Vedic operated the route Liverpool - Halifax- Portland and between 6 April 1922 to 11 October 1922, she made ​​together with the Poland of the Red Star Line four sailing from Bremen Southampton to Quebec and Montreal.

After an overhaul in 1925, the Vedic was used in conjunction with the Blue Funnel Line in emigrant traffic from the UK to Australia. She was the first ship of the White Star Line, which was sold after the merger with the Cunard Line in 1934 for scrapping. Cunard held the majority of shares in the company and decided to make the obsolete Vedic out of service. She was scrapped in the same year in Rosyth (Scotland).