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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