SS Canopic was a passenger liner of the White Star Line.
The ship was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Dominion Line, and launched on 31 May 1900 as the Commonwealth. The ship was 578 ft long, and powered by a 988 nhp 6-cylinder triple expansion steam engine which gave her a service speed of 16 kn. She could carry up to 1,300 passengers.[1]
The ship initially operated between Liverpool and Boston, but in 1903 she was transferred to the White Star Line and renamed Canopic. Her first crossing for the White Star Line began on 14 January 1904, on which she sailed from Liverpool to Boston. Immediately after this first crossing, she joined the Romanic and Republic on the White Star Line's new Mediterranean service, on which she would remain for more than 13 years. She was requisitioned for war service between 1917 and 1919, then served on the Liverpool–Montreal route and the Philadelphia-Liverpool route until 1925. She was eventually scrapped at Briton Ferry, Wales in 1925.[2] Timber panelling from the dining hall was salvaged and installed in the former Canopic Restaurant at Mumbles from where it was later reinstalled in the town's White Rose hotel.