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 LCT MARK III SPECIFICATION |
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 LCT 7074 is the last surviving LCT that took
part in the D-Day landings. More than 700
landing craft tank provided the backbone
of the invasion of Normandy. LCT's could
carry eleven Sherman tanks and LCT 7074 carried
ten to Normandy; nine got on the beach without
being hit or breaking down. After returning
to Southampton LCT 7074 carried American
reinforcements back to Normandy for the assault
on Cherbourg. A total of 235 LCT. 3 were
completed. This total includes 71 to slightly
modified plans, which were built by the main
shipbuilders during the winter of 1943 -
44 In the modified vessels an American Sterling
Admiral petrol engine was fitted in lieu
of the Paxman Deisel. The Landfall was one
of these 71 craft and was built by Hawthorne
Leslie and Co. Ltd at their Hebburn Yard
on the River Tyne and was completed on the
6th of April 1944. The Invasion Throughout the summer of 1944 - until the
capture of the port of Antwep - the LCT under
the command of Sub. Lt John Baggot and second
in command Sub. Lt Philip Stephens ferried
vehicles and ammunition to the Allied Armies
advancing across North West Europe. After
the War the Royal Navy handed the LCT 7074
to the Master Mariners of Liverpool and for
many years she was the lunch club, in a central
position on the Liverpool Waterfront before
being taken over by Jud [George] Evans and
Colin Peers of Compass Catering Ltd who converted
her into what became a well known Liverpool
nightclub.
The Warship Preservation Trust hoped to completely
restore LCT 7074 to her former wartime specification.
Sadly the trust failed and Landfall
was abandonned and left to rot.
THE LANDFALL - SPECIFICATIONS
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