 LCT 7074 on display outside The D-Day Story museum in Portsmouth
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom | |
| Name |
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| Owner |  Royal Navy |
| Builder | Hawthorn Leslie |
| Launched | 4 April 1944 |
| Commissioned | 6 April 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 1947 |
| Honours and awards | Normandy, 1944 |
| Status | Museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Mark 3 Landing Craft Tank |
| Displacement | 300 tons standard, up to 650 tons fully loaded |
| Length | 192 ft (59 m) |
| Beam | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught | 3 ft 10 in (1.17 m) (forward) |
| Installed power | 2 × Sterling Admiral petrol engines |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Range | 2,700 nmi (5,000 km) |
| Capacity | 350 long tons (356 t) of cargo |
| Complement | 12 |
| Armament | 2 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon |
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HM LCT 7074 is the last surviving Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) in the UK. LCT 7074 is an amphibious assault ship for landing tanks, other vehicles and troops on beachheads. Built in 1944 by Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn, the Mark 3 LCT 7074 was part of the 17th LCT Flotilla during Operation Neptune in June 1944.
LCT 7074 was decommissioned in 1947, and used by the Master Mariners' Club of Liverpool as their club ship Landfall. She served as a floating nightclub in the 60s and 70s and was acquired by the Warship Preservation Trust in the late 1990s. She was moored at Birkenhead for restoration but the Trust went into liquidation and she later sank in the dock. The vessel was raised by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in October 2014 and transported by sea to Portsmouth for restoration.[2]
- ^ C.B.04304 Details of Combined Operations Landing Craft and Barges. Admiralty. June 1944.
- ^ Kennedy, Maev (15 October 2014). "D-day tank carrier Landfall refloated for restoration". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 16 October 2014.