D-Day Museum; LCT7074

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LCT 7074

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-engla ... e-53860453

Updates:
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defen ... th-2950654
As ever the Daily Wail comes up trumps when it comes to photos:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... thsea.html

On a personal note NSC(E) 1023 which I served in when she was 'Mother ship' to the 1st M/S in Malta. A wonderful conversion of a LCT which contained workshops for engineers and tiffeys on the tank deck to die for. Known locally as the Clank due to the noise that the engine made. It took us 2 days to get to Sfax and that was with a fair wind! She later served at Singers apparently being renamed HMS Maidstone.
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LCT7074 was moved to her new home today at Portsmouth's D-Day Museum,she is the last remaining D-Day landing craft in the UK.Built at Hawthorne Leslie & Company Shipyards,Tyneside in 1944.
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D-DAY LANDING CRAFT COMPLETES FINAL JOURNEY TO MUSEUM
24 August 2020
RIDING high on a beach for the first time since June 1944 is one of the last survivors of D-Day, moved to her new home overnight.

Landing Craft (Tank) 7074 made her final journey by sea in the small hours, ready to be installed as the main attraction at the D-Day Story museum in Southsea, as a £5m restoration project nears completion.

The ship is the last of 800 similar vessels which delivered men, armour and material on to the shores of Normandy in June 1944, restored to how she appeared during that fateful summer in the same shed where sections of the UK’s new aircraft carriers were built.

It took two attempts to get the 59-metre long vessel, loaded on to a barge, from the naval base to her new home; summer storms thwarted the operation on Saturday night, but the seas and wind had calmed sufficiently for a second go at a beach landing, accomplished today at 3.50am.

From there it’s a road journey to the waterfront museum where she’ll take pride of place.

Restoration of the 300-tonne craft, carried out by the National Museum of the Royal Navy and Portsmouth City Council, was slowed by a couple of months by the pandemic and the move carried out in secret at night to prevent large crowds gathering to watch the spectacle.

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https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-l ... -to-museum
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Restoration of last D-Day survivor wins museum award

The seven-year £7m dream of restoring one of the last surviving D-Day warships has been crowned with a national award.
Landing Craft Tank 7074 – which now enjoys pride of place on Southsea waterfront at the D-Day Story museum – has been named as the restoration/conservation project of the year at the national Museum and Heritage Awards.
Judges said the challenges faced by the team from the National Museum of the Royal Navy and the D-Day Story to turn a sunken hull into a visitor attraction which captures the spirit of 1944 and those who served in such ships had been overcome “brilliantly”.
LCT7074 is the last of more than 800 landing craft (tank) which delivered Allied armour to the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 – and one of only a small number of vessels still left from the Operation Neptune armada.
When the restoration project began in 2014, the ship was sunk at her mooring in Birkenhead.
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National Museum of the Royal Navy

We’re very pleased to announce we have won the Excellence in Maritime Conservation Award for our work on LCT 7074. As the restored landing craft went on display at the end of last year, it reached the end of a six-year journey. The work on LCT 7074 could only be undertaken with our partners at Portsmouth City Council Royal Navy and HM Naval Base Portsmouth as well as our funders at the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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Second World War landing craft restoration wins award

The National Museum of the Royal Navy’s unique D-Day survivor LCT 7074 in Portsmouth has been awarded a prestigious National Historic Ships UK’s award for excellence in maritime conservation.

See - https://petersfieldpost.co.uk/article.c ... hyear=2021
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Having lived onboard HMS Tracker for a year, I have fond memories of Landing Ships, good to see her in all her glory.
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limeybiker wrote: Fri Dec 10, 2021 7:04 pm Having lived onboard HMS Tracker for a year, I have fond memories of Landing Ships, good to see her in all her glory.
Me too having spent time in N.S.C.(E) 1023 a converted LCT, at the time known in Malta as 'The Clank on account of the noise its engine made, being mother ship for the 1st M.S.
With a following wind we could even make 10 kts!
She ended up on the FES as mother to subs.
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Many thanks for those, Merry Christmas.
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