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Name: L C T 7074
Type: Tank Landing Craft
Keel: 1944
Launched: 30/03/1944
Completed: 1944
Builder: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd
Yard: Hebburn
Yard Number: 677
Dimensions: 350disp - 625disp, 175.0 x 31.0 x 5.3(draft)ft
Engines: 2 x Petrol engines, 2000hp
Engines by: Sterling Engine Co, Buffalo, New York
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 11.5knots
Construction: Steel
Armament: 2 x 1 x 2pdr AA guns
History:
22/03/1944 British Royal Navy
04/1945 Renamed NSC(L) 19
1948 Master Mariner's Club, Liverpool; renamed LANDFALL
197X Compass Catering Ltd, Liverpool; renamed CLUBSHIP LANDFALL
199X Warship Preservation Trust
2014 National Museum of the Royal Navy
No later history known
Comments: Tank Landing Craft - Mark III
Designed to carry 5 x 40tons tanks or 11 x 20tons tanks
04/1945: Intended conversion to emergency repairs ship no carried out
197X: Converted into a riverside nightclub
01/2006: Warship Preservation Trust went into administration
2010: Sank at her mooring in Birkenhead East Float
2014: Scheduled for conservation as a museum exhibit
16/10/2014: Raised & floated into the hold of CONDOCK
10/2014: Taken to Portsmouth for restoration
Restoration undertaken by HM Naval Base Portsmouth
24/08/2020: Restored vessel moved to Southsea by barge
On display at Southsea's D-Day Story museum


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Above: The last leg, off the barge and down the road. Photo is copyright of the Daily Mail