MV Empire MacAlpine

MV Empire MacAlpine

MV "Empire MacAlpine" was a grain ship converted to a Merchant Aircraft Carrier or MAC ship.

Entered service as MAC ship April 1943, owned by the Ministry of War Transport and operated by William Thomson & Co.cite web | url = http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EmpireM.html | accessdate=2007-03-18 | title= Empire - M | work= Mariners ]

Displacement 7,950 tons.Converted by Burntisland Shipbuilding Company.

The first MAC ship.

After the war, the ship was converted to a grain carrier, and scrapped at Hong Kong in 1970.cite web | url = http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EmpireM.html | accessdate=2007-03-18 | title= Empire - M | work= Mariners ]

See also

* List of aircraft carriers
* List of World War II ships

References


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