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|Ship country=United Kingdom
|Ship flag=[[File:Civil Ensign of the United Kingdom.svg|60px]]
|Ship name=''Empire MacDermott''
|Ship owner=Ministry of War Transport
|Ship operator=*Hain Steamship Company, [[St Ives, Cornwall|St Ives]]
* Buries Markes Ltd, London from 1947
* Canero Cia Nav. S. A., Panama from 1959
* Southern Shipping & Enterprises, Hong Kong from 1969
* China Ocean Shipping Co, [[Peking]] from 1975
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|Ship builder=[[William Denny and Brothers]], [[Dumbarton]], Scotland
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|Ship launched=24 January 1944
|Ship commissioned=31 March 1944
|Ship renamed=*''La Cumbre'', 1948
* {{flagicon|Greece}} ''Parnon'', 1959
* {{flagicon|Somalia}} ''Starlight'', 1969
|Ship fate=Sold in 1991 and deleted
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|Ship tonnage={{GRT|7952}}
|Ship displacement=12,000&nbsp;tons (full load)
|Ship length={{convert|448|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|60|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship depth={{convert|24|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship propulsion=*Diesel
* one shaft
* 3,300 bhp
|Ship speed={{convert|12.5|kn|km/h|lk=in}}
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|Ship complement=107
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|Ship armament=*1 × [[QF 4 inch naval gun Mk IV, XII, XXII|{{convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on}}]]
* 2 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm]]
* 4 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm]]
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|Ship aircraft=Four [[Fairey Swordfish]]
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'''MV ''Empire MacDermott''''' was a bulk grain ship built as a [[Merchant aircraft carrier|Merchant Aircraft Carrier]] (MAC ship). She served with the British [[Merchant Navy]] during the [[Second World War]], with rudimentary aircraft handling facilities operated by a [[Fleet Air Arm]] "air party".

''Empire MacDermott'' was built by [[William Denny and Brothers]], [[Dumbarton]], Scotland. She spent most of her time on the Atlantic convoy routes, providing air cover and transporting desperately needed grain to the UK. After the end of the, she was handed over to Buries Markes Ltd, London in 1947 and returned to merchant service the following year under the name ''La Cumbre''.  She was sold on again in 1959, this time to Canero Cia Nav. S. A., Panama.  They sailed her as ''Parnon'' under the Greek flag until 1969, when they sold her to Southern Shipping & Enterprises, Hong Kong.  They renamed her ''Starlight'', and sailed her under the [[Somalia]]n flag.  She was then transferred to the China Ocean Shipping Co, [[Peking]] in 1975, and by 1991 she had been deleted from [[Lloyd's Register]].

==External links==
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080512022420/http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/Empire_MacDermott.html Empire MacDermott at fleetairarmarchive.net]}}
* [http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3303.html Empire MacDermott at Uboat.net]
* [http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EmpireM.html List and history of the Empire ships]

{{Empire ships}}

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[[Category:Bulk carriers]]
[[Category:Grain ships]]
[[Category:Empire (grain)-class merchant aircraft carriers|Empire MacDermott]]
[[Category:1944 ships]]


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