HMS Mackay (D70)

HMS Mackay
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Mackay
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	5 March 1918
Launched	21 December 1918
Commissioned	June 1919
Fate	Scrapped June 1949
General characteristics
Class and type	Admiralty-type flotilla leader
Displacement	1,801 long tons (1,830 t)
Length	332 ft 6 in (101.35 m)
Beam	31 ft 9 in (9.68 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.81 m)
Installed power	40,000 shp (30,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 ×Parsons Turbines 2 shafts
Speed	36.5 knots
Armament	5 × BL 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 1 × 3 in (76 mm) anti-aircraft gun 2 × 2-pounder guns

HMS Mackay was an Admiralty type, sometimes known as the Scott class, flotilla leader of the British Royal Navy. Mackay was built by Cammell Laird during the First World War, but was completed too late for service then, commissioning in 1919.

Mackay took part in the British campaign in the Baltic during the Russian Civil War, and was still in service at the start of the Second World War. The ship took part in the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940 and the Normandy landings in 1944, spending most of the rest of the war operating on the East coast of Britain. Mackay was scrapped from June 1949.