[1] On 11 January 1916 the ship left Dakar in Senegal for Plymouth, United Kingdom, carrying 168 passengers and 133 crew members.

[1] In actuality, with World War I raging, the Imperial German Navy merchant raider SMS Möwe captured Appam on 15 January 1916.

[2] The German Empire appealed the decision to the Supreme Court of the United States, which heard the case as The Steamship Appam, 243 U.S. 124 (1917).

On 6 March 1917, the Supreme Court found in favour of the British owners, handing down a decision that a belligerent nation may not bring prizes of war into a neutral port.

On 28 March 1917, Appam was returned to her British owners and renamed SS Mandingo, before reverting to her original name at the end of the war.