SS Traffic was a baggage tender of the White Star Line, built in 1872 by Philip Speakman in Runcorn and made of English Oak.

[1] She was outfitted with machinery at the Old Quay Dock by Mr. W. P. Gaulton, an engineer from Manchester.

[2] She was based at the Port of Liverpool, and maintained a 25-year career with White Star.

Traffic was replaced by SS Pontic, which entered service in 1894,[3] and was laid up in Hornby Dock by March 1898, and put up for sale.

On the night of 3 May 1941, she was sunk in the May Blitz at the Canada Dock in Liverpool, and was raised later that October.