MV Empire MacKendrick
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Name: | Empire MacKendrick |
Owner: | Ministry of War Transport |
Builder: | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland |
Laid down: | 24 April 1943 |
Launched: | 29 September 1943 |
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Fate: | Scrapped Split 1975 |
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Displacement: | 7,950 tons (gross) |
Length: | 412.5 ft (125.7 m) (pp) 433.75 ft (132.21 m) (oa) |
Beam: | 56.75 ft (17.30 m) |
Depth: | 24 ft 6 in (7.47 m) |
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Speed: | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h) |
Complement: | 107 |
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Aircraft carried: | Four Fairey Swordfish |
MV Empire MacKendrick was a grain ship converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier or MAC ship.
The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland, built her under order from the Ministry of War Transport and was delivered on 12 December 1943.[1] As a MAC ship, only her air crew and the necessary maintenance staff were naval personnel.[2] She was operated by William Thomson & Co (the Ben Line).[3]
After the war the ship was converted to a grain carrier. In 1967 she was trapped in the Suez Canal by the Six-Day War. She was scrapped at Split in 1975.[3]