| Name: | R F MATTHEWS |
| Type: | Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 22/04/1879 |
| Completed: | 05/1879 |
| Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Jarrow |
| Yard Number: | 385 |
| Dimensions: | 1962grt, 1256nrt, 270.0 x 35.3 x 24.3ft |
| Engines: | C2cyl (22 & 58.5 x 42ins), 203nhp |
| Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
| Construction: | Iron |
| Reg Number: | 81543 |
| History: | |
| 26/05/1879 | Hunting & Pattison, London |
| 1891 | Hunting & Son, London |
| 1899 | Cav Carlo Allodi, Livorno; renamed MELORIA |
| 29/09/1911 | Government of Turkey |
| 1911 | Ottoman Navy; renamed DERNE |
| No later history known | |
| Comments: | 29/09/1911: Seized by Turkey at Istanbul at the outbreak of war with Italy |
| 1911: Used as a Naval collier | |
| 1929: Deleted from Lloyd’s Register as DERNA but believed to have been | |
| laid up from 1913 and broken up in about 1928 |