MV Empire MacColl
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| MV Empire MacColl
MV Empire MacColl.
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| Name: | Empire MacColl |
| Owner: | Ministry of War Transport |
| Operator: | British Tanker Co. Ltd. |
| Builder: | Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead |
| Launched: | 24 July 1943 |
| Renamed: | British Pilot in 1946 |
| Fate: | Scrapped Faslane 1962 |
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| Displacement: | 9,133 tons (gross) |
| Length: | 463 ft (141 m) (pp) 481 ft 6 in (146.76 m) (oa) |
| Beam: | 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m) |
| Depth: | 27 ft 9 in (8.46 m) |
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| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h) |
| Complement: | 110 |
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| Aircraft carried: | Four Fairey Swordfish |
MV Empire MacColl was an oil tanker converted to a merchant aircraft carrier (MAC) ship.
MV Empire MacColl was built by Laird, Son & Co., Birkenhead under order from the Ministry of War Transport. She entered service as a MAC ship in November 1943, however only her air crew and the necessary maintenance staff were naval personnel.[1] She was operated by the British Tanker Company.[2]
She returned to merchant service as an oil tanker in 1946 and was eventually scrapped in Faslane in 1962.
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