SS Appam

SS Appam circa 1915
History
Name	SS Appam (1912-1917) SS Mandingo (1917-1918) SS Appam (1918-1936)
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.