Name Empire MacKendrick Fate Scrapped Split 1975 Construction started 24 April 1943 | Laid down 24 April 1943 Displacement 7,950 tons (gross) Launched 29 September 1943 | |
Renamed Granpond in 1946Condor in 1949Saltersgate in 1955Vassil Levsky in 1957 | ||
MV Empire MacKendrick was a grain ship converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier or MAC ship.
The Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Fife, Scotland, built her under order from the Ministry of War 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 she was trapped in the Suez Canal by the Six-Day War. She was scrapped at Split in 1975.
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