On 30th January 1894, approaching New York, Tauric collided with the pilotboat Actaea off Fire Island. Tauric arrived in port the next day, apparently undamaged, but the pilotboat required a tow, having suffered damage to her starboard quarter and bulwarks. After arriving in the harbour on 1st February, Actaea was be drydocked for repairs.

When Tauric docked in New York, 229 jackasses were seized by the Sheriff pursuant to an attachment in favour of Herman Colberg, who claimed that their owner, Luke M. Emerson (said to be the "largest importer of jackasses" in the United States) owed him the cost of shipping the beasts from Spain to Bordeaux, France. Colberg and Emerson evidently settled their account amicably, for the attachment was discharged, but litigation later ensued between the Sheriff and Emerson as to whether the Sheriff actually took possession of the animals (entitling him to recover his costs) or whether he merely "[sat] on the curbstone and look[ed] at the building wherein the jackasses were housed" while Emerson settled his customs obligations.

On  30th January, 1895 - Two days before Tauric (commanded by Capt. Jones) arrived at Liverpool from New York, an electrical wire caused a fire in her number 4 hold. The ship's electrician suffocated to death whilst attempting to repair the wire and the fire was extinguished only after a hole was cut in the ship's deck to allow the injection of steam into the hold.

The fire and water damaged some 50 parcels of shocks and 900 bales of cotton, hay and fodder, while the fire's heat ruined a hundred tons of meat. Tauric returned to service after repairs and continued to serve White Star until she was sold to the Dominion Line in 1903.

Renamed Welshman in 1904. She was transferred to the Leyland Line in 1921 and scrapped in 1929.