MV Empire MacCabe

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Name: Empire MacCabe
Owner: Ministry of War Transport
Operator: British Tanker Co. Ltd.
Builder: Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend
Launched: 18 May 1943
Renamed:
  • British Escort in 1946
  • Easthill Escort in 1959
Honours and
awards:		 North Atlantic 1943-1945
Fate: Scrapped Hong Kong 1962
General characteristics
Displacement: 8,908 tons (gross)
Length: 463 ft (141 m) (pp) 485 ft 9 in (148.06 m) (oa)
Beam: 61 ft 9 in (18.82 m)
Depth: 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Propulsion:
  • Diesel
  • one shaft
  • 3,300 bhp
Speed: 11 knots (20 km/h)
Complement: 110
Armament:
  • 1 × 4 inch
  • 8 × 20 mm
Aircraft carried: Four Fairey Swordfish

MV Empire MacCabe was an oil tanker converted to a merchant aircraft carrier or MAC ship.

MV Empire MacCabe was built by Swan Hunter, Wallsend under order from the Ministry of War Transport. She entered service as a MAC ship in December 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 scrapped in Hong Kong in 1962.

References

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