M The last of the Alphabet Fleet was SS '' Meigle '' , built in Glasgow , Scotland in 1886 as '' Solway '' by the firm Barclay Curle and Co. , she was long and 839 tonnes . The vessel served as a passenger and cargo ferry until the early 1930s when on October 29 , 1932 , she became a floating prison . In 1936 she was sold to the Shaw Steamship Co. Limited . She was pressed into war service and was part of a convoy that was attacked by German U-Boats . On July 19 , 1947 , she was wrecked at Marines Cove , near St. Shotts . '' Meigle '' was one of the vessels that responded to the 1929 tsunami on the Burin Peninsula assisting in bringing supplies for victim relief
1929 tsunami
1929 Grand Banks earthquake
Alphabet Fleet