| Name: | BEGONIA |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 04/11/1899 |
| Completed: | 12/1899 |
| Builder: | Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company |
| Yard: | Willington Quay |
| Yard Number: | 126 |
| Dimensions: | 3653grt, 2346nrt, 344.9 x 46.0 x 16.9ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (23, 38.5 & 64 x 42ins), 287nhp |
| Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | 109908 |
| History: | |
| 12/1899 | Stag Line Ltd (J Robinson & Sons), North Shields |
| 1916 | Maindy Shipping Co Ltd (Jenkins, Richards & Evans Ltd), Cardiff |
| 1916 | Renamed MAINDY BRIDGE |
| 08/12/1917 | Sank |
| Comments: | 01/1897: Cost £38,750 |
| 08/12/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat UC49, 4 miles ENE of Sunderland | |
| On a voyage from Middlesbrough to the Tyne in ballast | |
| Two members of the crew died |
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 06/11/1899