Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier
MV Empire MacCallum
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
- Length
- 129.54 m (425 ft)
- Beam
- 17.37 m (57 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 107
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as Empire MacCallum? — 19602,193 days of the war
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
Particulars
- Name
- MV Empire MacCallum
- Builder
- Lithgows, Glasgow, Scotland
- Launched
- 12 October 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped Osaka 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Length
- 129.54 m (425 ft) OA
- Beam
- 17.37 m (57 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 107
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
MV Empire MacCallum was a Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy. She was built by Lithgows, Glasgow, Scotland. She was launched on 12 October 1943.
She measured 129.5 m (425 ft) long with a beam of 17.4 m (57 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 was in commission for 2,193 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
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
- one shaft
- 3,300 bhp
- Armament
- 1 × 4 in
- 2 × 40 mm
- 4 × 20 mm
- Aircraft
- Four Fairey Swordfish
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from MV Empire MacCallum on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.