MV Empire MacCallum

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MV Empire MacCallum was a grain ship converted to a merchant aircraft carrier or MAC ship.

History

MV Empire MacCallum was built at Lithgows shipyard, Glasgow, Scotland, under order from the Ministry of War Transport. As a MAC ship, only her air crew and the necessary maintenance staff were naval personnel,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She was operated by Hain Steam Ship Co Ltd of St Ives.<ref name="List and history of the Empire ships">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 7 July 1944, a Fairey Swordfish aircraft mistakenly sank the Free French submarine Template:Ship in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}Template:Rs
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After the war, the ship was converted to a grain carrier, and eventually scrapped at Osaka in 1960.<ref name="List and history of the Empire ships"/>

See also

• List of aircraft carriers

External links

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