SS Baltic was an Oceanic-class ocean liner that was built in 1871 for the White Star Line.

This was changed to Baltic during her fitting out so as to avoid association with the Collins Line steamship Pacific, which had vanished with all hands in January 1856.

[3] Baltic was largely identical in design to her three Oceanic-class sister ships, a general outline of her characteristics can be found at Oceanic-class_ocean_liner#Features.

[4][3] On 19 November 1875, Baltic rescued the crew of the full-rigged ship Oriental, which had become waterlogged in the Atlantic Ocean.

[8] Baltic served White Star on the North Atlantic run for 17 years, except for two brief periods in 1883 and 1885 when she was chartered to the Inman Line.