MV Acavus
MV Acavus was one of nine Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell tankers converted to become a Merchant Aircraft Carrier (MAC ship). The group is collectively called the Rapana Class.
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Name: | MV Acavus |
Operator: | Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell |
Builder: | Workman, Clark and Company |
Launched: | 24 November 1934 |
Fate: | Scrapped Italy 1963 |
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Displacement: | 8,010 tons (gross) |
Length: | 465 ft (142 m) (pp) 482.75 ft (147.14 m) (oa) |
Beam: | 59 ft (18 m) |
Draught: | 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m) |
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Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
Complement: | 100 |
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Aircraft carried: | Four Fairey Swordfish |
Acavus was built by Workman, Clark and Company and completed in January 1935 as an oil tanker for the Anglo Saxon Royal Dutch/Shell line. She was converted at Falmouth to a MAC ship, entering service in October 1943.[1]
As a MAC ship, she had no aircraft hangar, and continued to carry normal cargoes, although operating under Royal Navy control. Only her aircrew and the necessary maintenance staff were naval personnel.[2]
At the end of the war Acavus was reconverted to an oil tanker, and renamed Iacra in 1963. She was in service until 1963 when she was scrapped in Italy.
References
- "HMS Acavus Aircraft Carrier Profile". Fleet Air Arm Archive. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
- Lenton, HT; Colledge, JJ. Warships of World War II. Ian Allan. p. 296. ISBN 0-7110-0403-X.
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