MV Macoma

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|Ship image=HNLMS Macoma.jpg
|Ship caption= MV Macoma
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{{Infobox ship career
|Ship country=Netherlands
|Ship flag=[[File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg|60px]]
|Ship name=''Macoma''
|Ship owner=Anglo Saxon [[Royal Dutch Shell|Royal Dutch/Shell]]
|Ship operator=Anglo Saxon [[Royal Dutch Shell|Royal Dutch/Shell]]
|Ship ordered=
|Ship builder=Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam
|Ship laid down=
|Ship launched=31 December 1935
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|Ship renamed=
|Ship fate=Scrapped Hong Kong 1959
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|Ship tonnage={{GRT|8011}}
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|Ship length={{convert|463|ft|m|abbr=on}} (pp) {{convert|481|ft|m|abbr=on}} (oa)
|Ship beam={{convert|59|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|27|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*Diesel
* one shaft
* 4,000 bhp
|Ship speed={{convert|13|kn|km/h|lk=in}}
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|Ship complement=100
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* 1 × [[QF 4 inch naval gun Mk IV, XII, XXII|{{convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on}}]]
* 8 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm]]
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|Ship aircraft=Four [[Fairey Swordfish]]
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'''MV ''Macoma''''' was one of nine Anglo Saxon [[Royal Dutch Shell|Royal Dutch/Shell]] [[oil tankers]] converted to become a [[Merchant Aircraft Carrier]] (MAC ship). The group is sometimes collectively known as the Rapana Class.
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Macoma was launched on 31 December 1935 at Nederlandse Scheepsbouw Mij, Amsterdam as an oil tanker and entered service the following year. She was converted to a MAC ship from late 1943 to April 1944, and commissioned 1 April 1944.<ref name="Fleet Air Arm Archive">{{cite web | url=http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/MACOMA.html | accessdate=2009-01-26 | title=HMAS MACOMA Aircraft Carrier Profile | work=Fleet Air Arm Archive | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706044901/http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/MACOMA.html | archive-date=6 July 2009 | url-status=usurped }}</ref>

As a MAC ship, she had no aircraft hangar, and continued to carry normal cargoes, although operating under Royal Navy control. Only her air crew and aviation support staff were naval personnel.<ref name="H.T. Lenton & J. J. Colledge 296">{{cite book | title = Warships of World War II | author = H.T. Lenton & J. J. Colledge | isbn = 0-7110-0403-X | publisher= Ian Allan | page = 296}}</ref> In the case of the ''Macoma'', these were provided by the [[Royal Netherlands Navy]] including the Dutch Fleet Air Arm [[860 Naval Air Squadron|860]] and [[861 Naval Air Squadron|861]] squadrons.

The Macoma and her sister {{MV|Gadila}} were the first aircraft carrying vessels with a flight deck to be operated under the flag of the Netherlands.<ref name="H.T. Lenton & J. J. Colledge 296"/>

After the war, MV ''Macoma'' was reconverted and returned to merchant service as an oil tanker and served in that role until scrapped in Hong Kong in 1959.

==References==
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{{Rapana class merchant aircraft carrier}}

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[[Category:Oil tankers]]
[[Category:1935 ships]]
[[Category:Ships built in Amsterdam]]
[[Category:Merchant ships of the Netherlands]]
[[Category:World War II merchant ships of the Netherlands]]
[[Category:World War II merchant ships of the United Kingdom]]

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