 After the "Britannic" and "Germanic" entered service in 1874 and 1875, the new, faster and larger vessels made all previous White Star ships redundant, including "Gaelic".On 29 May 1875, "Gaelic", along with her sister ship "Belgic" and the company's first vessel "Oceanic", was chartered to the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company for their Pacific routes.She was put on the San Francisco-Yokohama-Hong Kong run and was caught in a gale on 20 November, which damaged the after part of her wheelhouse and blew away her trysail.