MV ''Empire MacKendrick'' was a
Merchant Aircraft Carrier or MAC ship converted to become a
grain ship.
The
Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd,
Fife,
Scotland
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, built her under order from the
Ministry of War Transport
The Ministry of War Transport (MoWT) was a department of the British Government formed early in the Second World War to control transportation policy and resources. It was formed by merging the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of Transport ...
and was delivered on 12 December 1943. As a MAC ship, only her air crew and the necessary maintenance staff were naval personnel.
She was operated by William Thomson & Co (the
Ben Line).
After the war the ship was converted to a grain carrier. In 1967, while under
Bulgarian management, she was
trapped in the
Suez Canal by the
Six-Day War
The Six-Day War (, ; ar, النكسة, , or ) or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states (primarily Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from 5 to 10 Ju ...
. She was scrapped at
Split
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Places
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* Split Island, Fiji, better known as Hạfliua
Arts, entertai ...
in 1975.
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See also
* List of aircraft carriers
This list of aircraft carriers contains aircraft carriers listed alphabetically by name. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft, that serves a ...
External links
FAA archive
References
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World War II aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom
Bulk carriers
Grain ships
Empire MacKendrick
Empire ships
1943 ships