LCPL

United States Marine Corps reinforcements at Guadalcanal debark from an LCP(L).
Class overview
Name	Landing Craft Personnel (Large)
Builders	Higgins Industries, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Operators	United States Navy  Royal Navy Royal Canadian Navy Royal Australian Navy Royal New Zealand Navy Royal Indian Navy  Polish Navy (postwar)
Preceded by	Various ship's boats and cutters
Succeeded by	LCP(R), LCVP
Subclasses	Royal Navy model US model
Built	1940-1943
Active	0
Preserved	0
General characteristics
Type	Landing craft
Displacement	US Model: 13,500 pounds (light), 21,600 pounds (loaded)
Length	36 ft 8 in
Beam	10 ft 10 in
Draught	2 ft 6 in aft. light 3 ft 6 aft. loaded
Ramps	0
Propulsion	1 × Hall-Scott 250 hp gasoline engine or 1 x Kermath 225 hp gasoline engine or 1 x Gray 165-225 hp diesel engine or 1 x Superior 150 hp diesel engine
Speed	RN model: 9-11 kts. (max) US model: 8 kts. (fully loaded)
Range	RN model: 120 miles at full speed (loaded) US model: 50 miles (gasoline), 130 miles (diesel)
Capacity	6,700–8,100 pounds (3,039–3,674 kg)
Troops	RN model: 25 troops US model: 36 troops
Crew	US model: 4 - coxswain, engineer, signalman, and bow-hookman (last two also operated the machine guns) RN model: 3 - coxswain, stoker, bowman/machine gunner, plus 1 officer per group of 3 boats
Armament	US model: 2 x Browning .30 cal. machine guns, or US manufactured Lewis .30 cal. machine guns RN model: 1 x .303 cal. Lewis Gun
Armor	3 x 10 lb. plates on bulkheads (fore of the .30 cal. cockpits, of the troop well and the engine space.
Notes	from US Navy ONI 226 Allied Landing Craft and Ships, US Government Printing Office, 1944.

The Landing Craft Personnel (Large) or LCP (L) was a landing craft used extensively in the Second World War. Its primary purpose was to ferry troops from transport ships to attack enemy-held shores. The craft derived from a prototype designed by the Eureka Tug-Boat Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Manufactured initially in boatyards in and around New Orleans, as requirements grew it was produced in a number of yards around the United States. Typically constructed of pine planks and plywood, and fitted with some armor plate, this shallow-draft boat with a crew of 3 could ferry an infantry platoon of 36 to shore at 8 knots (13 km/h). Men generally entered the boat by walking over a gangplank from the boat deck of their troop transport as the LCP(L) hung from its davits. When loaded, the LCP(L) was lowered into the water. Soldiers exited the boat by jumping or climbing down from the craft's bow or sides.