Royal Navy — Aircraft carrier
MV Empire MacRae
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
Service
- as Empire MacRae? — 19712,193 days of the war
Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier
Particulars
- Name
- MV Empire MacRae
- Builder
- Lithgows, Glasgow, Scotland
- Launched
- 21 June 1943
- Fate
- Scrapped Taiwan 1971 (1971)
- 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 MacRae was a Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy. She was built by Lithgows, Glasgow, Scotland. She was launched on 21 June 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 1971.
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 MacRae on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph A 20700 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons