Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier
MV Empire MacKendrick
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
- Length
- 125.73 m (412.5 ft)
- Beam
- 17.3 m (56.8 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 107
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as Empire MacKendrick? — 19752,193 days of the war
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
Particulars
- Name
- MV Empire MacKendrick
- Builder
- Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland
- Laid down
- 24 April 1943
- Launched
- 29 September 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped Split 1975 (1975)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Length
- 125.73 m (412.5 ft) OA
- Beam
- 17.3 m (56.8 ft)
- Speed
- 12.5 knots (23.2 km/h, 14.4 mph)
- Complement
- 107
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
MV Empire MacKendrick was a Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier in service with the Royal Navy. Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland laid her keel on 24 April 1943. She was launched on 29 September 1943.
She measured 125.7 m (412 ft) long with a beam of 17.3 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 1975.
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 MacKendrick on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.