The SS Runic was a steamship built at Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the White Star Line which entered service in 1901.

Runic was the fourth of five Jubilee-class ocean liners built for White Star's Australia service along with her sister ship SS Suevic, where she ran on the Liverpool–Cape Town–Sydney route.

In 1930 Runic was sold and converted into a whaling factory ship and renamed New Sevilla, she remained in service in this role until September 1940 when she was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast with the loss of two lives.

[2][3] On 1 May that year Runic collided with the 954-ton collier Horst Martini in fog whilst in the English Channel, the smaller ship sank, but there were no deaths.

[2] After nearly a decade in this role, on 20 September 1940 during World War II New Sevilla was sailing as part of the convoy OB 216 from Liverpool to Antarctica when she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-138.

She initially remained afloat and was taken in tow, but sank the next day, 30 miles (48 km) off Malin Head, Galway, Ireland at the position (55°48′N 07°22′W / 55.800°N 7.367°W / 55.800; -7.367).