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Dave thanks for your reply. The link you sent to the WW2talk forum is very interesting.
If I understand correctly the LCT has been sinking for years, but someone regularly pumped the water out uptil a few months ago. So, did the leak get worse, or did they just stop pumping the water out (maybe even to attract attention)? I am shocked by your message that only the funnel is the only thing sticking from the water at the moment. When it was still partially afloat, you could at least move the vessel around. Now it has sunk it does make any attempt to rescue it harder and even though I agree that the flat bottom could make it easy to slip some cables underneath it, you still need one or two cranes to get it back to the surface. Let's hope this new attempt as suggested on the WW2talk forum proves to be the "winner" and we will be able to admire the LCT as part of a museum or collection in the future. Alex
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Sadly, LCT 7074 is deteriorating further and I haven't heard of any recent plans to save it. I guess the plans mentioned previously didn't have the desired result.
I bought a lottery ticket yesterday.....now I only have to wait..... http://www.demotix.com/sites/default...tos/593234.jpg http://www.demotix.com/sites/default...tos/593231.jpg source:http://www.demotix.com
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Fantastic news Dave
![]() Found some photos of the LCT being raised..... http://jhlphotography.smugmug.com/Ir...2014/LCT-7074/ Last edited by Stuart Kirkham; 22-11-14 at 10:02. |
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Great photos. By the time the driver climbed to the cab on the Crain it would be lunch time.
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Some picture from the salvage operation of LCT 7074
source: http://www.uk.arteliagroup.com/lct-7074-re-floated/ http://www.uk.arteliagroup.com/lct70...loat-part-two/ Awesome to see the LCT saved and on it's way to the D-day museum in Portsmouth! Alex
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What would a typical load have consisted of for her at the Normandy Beaches on D-Day?
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