 SS Appam circa 1915
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner | British & African Steam Navigation Company |
| Builder | Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Yard number | 431 |
| Launched | 10 October 1912 |
| Completed | 27 February 1913 |
| Fate | Scrapped in 1936 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 7,781 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Length | 425 ft (130 m) |
| Beam | 57 ft (17 m) |
SS Appam was a British steamship owned by the British & African Steam Navigation Company, a subsidiary of Elder Dempster Shipping Limited, that was captured at sea by the German raider SMS Möwe in 1916. The Germans took the ship to port at Hampton Roads in Virginia in the United States where the Supreme Court of the United States decided who would get ownership of the vessel.