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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