SS ''Appomattox'' was a 3,338 ton

banana boat Banana Boat is a Polish a cappella sextet, authoring and performing original songs representing the genre of neo-shanties. Being one of the pioneers of the new genre, the group retains its simultaneous focus on contemporary interpretations of ...

of the

Fyffes Line Fyffes Line was the name given to the fleet of passenger-carrying Banana boat (ship), banana boats owned and operated by the UK banana importer Fyffes, Elders & Fyffes Limited. History With the formation of Elders & Fyffes Ltd in 1901 it was n ...

History

She was built in 1893 for the Chesapeake & Ohio Steam Ship Company (hence the Virginian name) and sold to Elders & Fyffes in 1902. She undertook occasional work for the

United Fruit Company The United Fruit Company (later the United Brands Company) was an American multinational corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas) grown on Latin American plantations and sold in the United States and Europe. The company was ...

until 1910, when she was sold to M. Gumuchdjian, of Turkey and renamed ''Seyyar''. She was sunk off Karasu by Russian warships on 12 March 1916.The Ships List, Elders & Fyffes, S Swiggum & M kohli
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Banana boats (ships) 1893 ships Ships built on the River Tees Merchant ships of the United Kingdom Ships of the Ottoman Empire Maritime incidents in 1916 World War I shipwrecks in the Black Sea {{Merchantship-stub