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The Vedic was a passenger ship put into service in 1918 by the British shipping company White Star Line . It first sailed the North Atlantic route and after 1925 served in the emigration traffic to Australia . After the merger of the White Star Line with the Cunard Line , the Vedic was scrapped in Scotland in 1934.
The ship
The 9,332 GRT steam turbine ship Vedic was built by Harland & Wolff in Govan near Glasgow and was launched on December 18, 1917. The 140 meter long and 17.77 meter wide ship was the first ship of the American shipping group International Mercantile Marine Company that was not specially built for one of its integrated shipping companies. The Vedic had a chimney, two masts and two propellers and could sail a maximum of 14 knots.
The Vedic was finally completed for the White Star Line in July 1918. Since she was planned as a pure emigration ship, she only had third-class accommodation and could carry a total of 1250 travelers. She was the first ship in the White Star fleet to be powered solely by steam turbines. Due to the war, it was immediately completed as a troop transport . On July 11, 1918, she ran from Belfast on her maiden voyage via Liverpool to Boston , where she was prepared for her troop voyages .
Until April 1919 the ship was subject to the Liner Requisition Theme of the British government. In September 1919 the Vedic was used for the repatriation of British troops from Russia. In 1920 she was overhauled in Middlesbrough and took her first passenger service from Liverpool to Quebec to Montreal in August of the same year . Between 22 December 1921 and 6 April 1922, served Vedic route Liverpool Halifax - Portland and between 6 April 1922 to 11 October 1922, she went along with the Poland of the Red Star Line four crossings of Bremen on Southampton to Quebec and Montreal.
After an overhaul in 1925, the Vedic was used in collaboration with the Blue Funnel Line in emigrant traffic from Great Britain to Australia. She was the first ship of the White Star Line to be sold for scrapping after the merger with the Cunard Line in 1934. Cunard held the majority of the company and decided to decommission the outdated Vedic . It was scrapped in Rosyth (Scotland) that same year .