RICHARDSON, DUCK & COMPANY, THORNABY

Name MEGGIE
Type Iron steamship
Yard Number 364
Launched 15/07/1889
Completed 08/1889
Off. Number 96627
Engine builder Blair & Co., Stockton-on-Tees
Engine type T 3 cyl.
GRT 1747 (Later listed as 1585 in LR)
Length (feet) 270.0
Beam (feet) 36.6
First owner Burdick & Cook, London.
   
History 1910 James Cormack & Co., Leith
  24/06/1917 captured by UC.57 in the Gulf of Bothnia
  08/1917 - 01/1919 German army transport
  1919 The Shipping Controller (James Cormack & Co.), Leith
  1921 J. Cormack & Co., Leith
  1922 renamed BABERTON
  1927 MEGGIE, Red A/B Nellie (And. S. Cronberg), Nyhamnslage
  1932 Red A/B Nellie (Emil Johnsson), Nyhamnslage
  1934 Manager H. Johnsson.
  1937 Manager K. A. Jonhagen.
   
Fate 27/10/1940 sunk by gunfire from Italian submarine NANI when 60nm E of Azores on passage Dunston for Madeira with coal.

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