Harland and Wolff - Shipbuilding and Engineering Works

One funnel, two masts, twin screw and a service speed of 16 knots, there was accommodation for 250-1st, 250-2nd and 800-3rd class passengers. Commonwealth made her maiden voyage on 4 October 1900, from Liverpool to Boston. She remained with Dominion until 1903, serving Boston-Genoa in the winter of 1901-02, but otherwise remaining on the Liverpool-Boston service.

In 1903 she was transferred to White Star as that line became the center piece of J.P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine combine. Renamed Canopic, she remained on the Liverpool-Boston service, which was also transferred from Dominion to White Star. Her first White Star sailing on that route was on 14 January 1904. Canopic continued to serve on the Liverpool-Boston/New York and US-Mediterranean services until 1917, when she was taken over by the Shipping Controller and operated by the British government under the Liner Requisition Scheme.

She returned to White Star's New York-Mediterranean service in 1919. In the summer of 1922, she was moved to the Liverpool-Canada route and that Autumn she was moved again, to White Star's Bremen-New York route. She remained on that service until 1924, although her German terminal was moved to Hamburg in 1923. She served on the Liverpool-Philadelphia and Liverpool-Halifax routes during the Autumn and winter of 1924-25.

After being laid up for six months, Canopic was sold for scrapped at Briton Ferry in Octoberl of 1925.

[North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2,p.763]