| MV Empire MacKendrick | |
|---|---|
| Career (UK) |  |
| Name: | Empire MacKendrick |
| Owner: | Ministry of War Transport |
| Builder: | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland |
| Laid down: | 24 April 1943 |
| Launched: | 29 September 1943 |
| Renamed: |
Granpond in 1946 Condor in 1949 Saltersgate in 1955 Vassil Levsky in 1957 |
| Fate: | Scrapped Split 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| 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) |
| Propulsion: |
Diesel one shaft 3,300 bhp |
| Speed: | 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h) |
| Complement: | 107 |
| Armament: |
1 x 4 inch 2 x 40 mm 4 x 20 mm |
| 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]
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- ↑ "Burntisland Shipyard - List of Ships Page 5". Burntisland.net. http://www.burntisland.net/ships5.htm. Retrieved 26 January 2009.
- ↑ Lenton, H.T.; Colledge, J.J.. Warships of World War II. Ian Allan Publishing. p. 296. ISBN 0-7110-0403-X.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "List and history of the Empire ships - M". Mariners. http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EmpireM.html. Retrieved 18 March 2007.
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