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Port bow view of S.S. ESSO APPALACHEE entering Cardiff Docks.

Built 1942 as EMPIRE DICKENS by Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd., Haverton Hill-on-Tees (engine by Richardson, Westgarth & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool) for MoWT 1946 – Sold to Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London, and renamed ESSO APPALACHEE, managed by Esso Transportation Co Ltd. 1951 – Sold to Esso Petroleum Co Ltd., London (same name). In an incident in April 1952, she sank the tug FLYING BUZZARD while under tow at Bowling, Dumbarton. On another occasion in 1956, she collided with the oil jetty at Immingham, cutting it in two. The vessel was broken up by Shipbuilding Industries Ltd at Faslane in 1960. (wikipedia)