High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Esso Appalachee was a 9,819 GRT tanker that was built in 1942 as Empire Dickens by Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Haverton Hill-on-Tees, County Durham, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). In 1946 she was sold into merchant service and renamed Esso Appalachee, she served until 1960 when she was scrapped.