Two ships of the White Star Line have borne the name Gaelic, an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels":
SS Gaelic (1873) was a livestock carrier launched in 1873. She was chartered to the Occidental & Oriental Steamship Company between 1875 and 1883 and was sold in 1883 to Cia de Nav.La Flecha and renamed Hugo.
RMS Gaelic (1885) was a passenger liner launched in 1885. She was sold to the Pacific Steam Navigation Company in 1905 and renamed Callao.
List of ships with the same or similar names
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and 1883 and was sold in 1883 to Cia de Nav.La Flecha and renamed Hugo. RMSGaelic (1885) was a passenger liner launched in 1885. She was sold to the Pacific...
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to...
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years...
first known arrival of Korean immigrants to U.S. territory in 1903 aboard RMSGaelic. Alan Brennert's novel, Honolulu by (2009) features a Korean picture bride...
to bear the name Britannic. She was the youngest sister of the RMS Olympic and the RMS Titanic and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger...
passports to these immigrants the previous year. They travelled on the RMSGaelic and landed in Hawaii. The passengers were a diverse group with various...
charter agreement for three vessels: two cargo-liners, the SS Gaelic and the SS Belgic; also the RMS Oceanic, the first luxury liner of the company, which had...
Gaelic (born 1866) 29 March – Henry Robertson Bowers, polar explorer (born 1883) 15 April – Wreck of the RMS Titanic John Law Hume, violinist on RMS Titanic...
praises their response to World War I. 7 May – sinking of the RMS Lusitania: British ocean liner RMS Lusitania is sunk by Imperial German Navy U-boat U-20 about...
RMS Teutonic was an ocean liner built for the White Star Line in Belfast and was the first armed merchant cruiser. In the late 1880s competition for the...
in New York area. In fact, Koreans started coming to the US in 1902 (RMSGaelic) as farm workers. Later, after the annexation by Japanese, students and...
31 May – The RMS Titanic's hull was launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. It was the largest ship afloat. Her sister RMS Olympic sailed...
RMS Tayleur was a full-rigged iron clipper ship chartered by the White Star Line. She was large, fast and technically advanced. She ran aground off Lambay...
Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod; Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Anna Nic Leòid [ˈmaːɾʲɪ ˈan̪ˠa ɲiçkʲ ˈʎɔːtʲ]; May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was the wife of real-estate...
RMS Cedric was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. She was the second of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, dubbed the Big Four, and was the...
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