MV Macoma

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MV Macoma was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell oil tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship). The group is sometimes collectively known as the Rapana Class. <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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">Template:Cite book</ref> In the case of the Macoma, these were provided by the Royal Netherlands Navy including the Dutch Fleet Air Arm 860 and 861 squadrons.

The Macoma and her sister Template:MV 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.