s.s. 'Meldon' - The single screw, steel hulled, general cargo vessel 'Meldon' was launched at the Hebburn yard of Robert Stephenson & Company Limited during October 1902 for the Morpeth Steamship Company Limited of Newcastle on Tyne. She was of 2,514 gross and 1,572 net register tons being 310.0 ft. in length x 43.1 ft. breath x 20.5 ft. depth. The vessel was sunk outward from Penarth on 3rd March 1917 half a mile off Garvelloch in the Firth of Lorne with a cargo of coal. The mines had been laid by U-78 the previous month. There were no losses to crew. [102]

She was a requisitioned auxiliary cargo vessel on duty as a collier to the Admiralty at the time of her loss. She lies in 14 to 20m of water.