Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier
MV Empire MacAlpine
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
Service
- as Empire MacAlpine? — 19702,193 days of the war
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
Particulars
- Name
- MV Empire MacAlpine
- Builder
- Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife, Scotland
- Laid down
- 11 August 1942
- Launched
- 23 December 1942
- Fate
- Scrapped Hong Kong 1970 (1970)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Length
- 125.58 m (412 ft) OA
- Beam
- 17.07 m (56 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 107
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
MV Empire MacAlpine was a Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier, operated by the Royal Navy. Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife, Scotland laid her keel on 11 August 1942. She was launched on 23 December 1942.
She measured 125.6 m (412 ft) long with a beam of 17.1 m (56 ft). Her designed speed was 12.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 107.
Her main battery was one 102 mm (4 in) guns. She carried four aircraft. Her machinery developed 3,300 hp.
She was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1970.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- Diesel engine(s)
- 1 × shaft
- Power
- 3300 hp
- Armament
- 1 × 4 in dual-purpose gun, 2 × 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, 4 × 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons
- Aircraft
- 4
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from MV Empire MacAlpine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Oulds, D C (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 18012 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons