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History
United Kingdom
Name	Empire MacCallum
Owner	Ministry of War Transport
Operator	Hain Steam Ship Co Ltd
Builder	Lithgows, Glasgow, Scotland
Launched	12 October 1943
Renamed	Doris Clunies in 1947 Sunrover in 1951 Eudoxia in 1957 Phorkyss in 1959
Fate	Scrapped Osaka 1960
General characteristics
Tonnage	8,250 GRT
Length	425 ft (130 m) (pp) 444 ft 6 in (135.48 m) (oa)
Beam	57 ft 9 in (17.60 m)
Depth	24 ft 6 in (7.47 m)
Propulsion	Diesel one shaft 3,300 bhp
Speed	12.5 knots (23.2 km/h)
Complement	107
Armament	1 × 4 in (100 mm) 2 × 40 mm 4 × 20 mm
Aircraft carried	Four Fairey Swordfish

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, She was operated by Hain Steam Ship Co Ltd of St Ives. On 7 July 1944, a Fairey Swordfish aircraft mistakenly sank the Free French submarine Perle in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland. Among the aircraft that served on Empire MacCallum was Fairey Swordfish Mk II LS326 where it became part of 'K' flight. The aircraft had previously been on Rapana. In November 2010, it was airworthy with the Royal Navy Historic Flight.

After the war, the ship was converted to a grain carrier, and eventually scrapped at Osaka in 1960.

See also

• List of aircraft carriers

References

1. H.T. Lenton; J. J. Colledge (1973). Warships of World War II. Ian Allan. p. 296. ISBN 0-7110-0403-X.
2. ^ "List and history of the Empire ships - M". Mariners. Retrieved 18 March 2007.
3. "Q 184 La Perle 2". SM Français (in French). Archived from the original on 10 August 2014.
   - Polmar, Norman (2006). Aircraft Carriers. Vol. 1, 1909-1945 : a history of carrier aviation and its influence on world events (2nd ed.). Potomac Books. p. 276. ISBN 9781574886634.
   - Rohwer, Jürgen; Hümmelchen, Gerhard. "Seekrieg 1944, Juli". Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart (in German). Retrieved 5 September 2015.
4. Howard, Lee (December 2010). "Return of the Stringbag". Aeroplane. Kelsey Publishing. pp. 47–48, 53–55.

External links

• "MV Empire MacCallum". Fleet Air Arm Archive. Archived from the original on 6 July 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)

• World War II aircraft carriers of the United Kingdom
• Bulk carriers
• Grain ships
• Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carriers
• Empire ships
• 1943 ships