LCT 7074 Landfall at Birkenhead: risk of being scrapped

[griffo220]

Hi all, she's saved!

http://www.warhistoryonline.com/pres...an-sawyer.html

Regards

Dave

[Stuart Kirkham]

Fantastic news Dave . I've been following this story with 'optimistic' interest hoping that something could be done to save 7074.

Found some photos of the LCT being raised.....

http://jhlphotography.smugmug.com/Ir...2014/LCT-7074/

[hrpearce]

Great photos. By the time the driver climbed to the cab on the Crain it would be lunch time.

[Alex van de Wetering]

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

[David Dunlop]

What would a typical load have consisted of for her at the Normandy Beaches on D-Day?


David

[Alex van de Wetering]

David,

I understand LCT 7074 carried 10 Shermans during D-day, and landed on Gold Beach.

She joined the 17th LCT Flotilla at Great Yarmouth then steamed onwards to Felixstowe to prepare for the build up to D-Day. The backbone of the invasion fleet LCT’s, which could carry up to eleven Sherman tanks, were manned mainly by British crews and transported almost all the tanks, heavy artillery and armoured vehicles landed in Normandy. The 17th LCT Flotilla was part of Assault Group L2, LCT Squadron “H” of the Eastern Task Force, which supported the British landings (made up of two British divisions, one Canadian division plus two Army and one Royal Marine Commando unit), and LANDFALL carried troops and ten Shermans to Normandy, successfully landing nine of the tanks on Gold beach. For several months after the invasion, the vessel was consistently engaged in ferrying troops, supplies, vehicles and ammunition to ports across the Channel in support of the Allied Forces advancing across northern Europe, continuing in this role throughout the summer and well into the autumn of 1944.

source: http://www.nationalhistoricships.org...r/713/landfall

Some excellent info on specific laoding tables was posted in these threads:

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2205
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=9387

[David Dunlop]

Thanks, Alex.

David