As a young lad in 1970s Liverpool, my friend's dad worked on Liverpool docks, and on a couple of occasions took us onboard the "S.S Landfall" when it was moored in Collingwood Dock. I remember it was in a REALLY sorry state, and even though as a young lad I was vaguely aware that it had taken part in D-Day seeing it as it was in the late 70s it was hard to imagine it being true. The memory crossed my mind earlier this evening, and I though I'd search around online to see what had become of the old wreck, and first discovered that it had been purchased by the "Merseyside Historic Warship Preservation Trust" in 1994... before the HWPT went bust. Then on finding that it had been funded by the lottery heritage committee I searched YT for LCT 7074 and then find THIS GEM !!! Not ashamed to say I almost felt a bit "misty eyed" myself to see such an unbelievable transformation from the rusting wreck I remembered from childhood, that I'd imagined had been scrapped many years ago. What a fantastic memorial to the brave lads who manned these craft in such awful conditions. I'm so VERY glad to see that some of the veterans are still around to see how their efforts and heroism are being remembered. Great work, Great video... thank you.
I've just found this site. I was interested in the report of the skipper of LCT 922 and the comment about the assistance of LCT737. My father was the skipper of LCT 737. I'm interested in finding out where these reports are stored and whether we have access to any more.
Hello, you can see some of our collections online including this report: theddaystory.com/ElasticSearch/?si_elastic_searchterm=922. We don't have lots of similar reports, but it just happens that the officer who wrote this one kept a copy, which was later donated to our museum. The main source of these sort of reports would be the National Archives at Kew, where there are reports on Force G for example (the naval force for Gold Beach).
There has been no mention as yet of 7074's conversion into either one of ten LCT(E) Emergency Repair craft destined for the far east or one of three NSC (L), a floating engineering workshop where the tank deck was decked over and further superstructure added providing the space for the workshops and later the Master Mariners club Landfall and finally George Evans' night club...
We could only touch on the LCT's history in the livestream, but you are right that it was an important part of the ship's history (and is told in more detail on the displays on board).
@@TheDDayStory I have a friend who lives just up the road from you and I am going to ask him to visit you and take some photos of your display, he and is wife have a holiday home up here on Anglesey. His wife's father was awarded an AFC for flying his Canberra through the mushroom cloud during Operation Grapple...now that is another story as I'm sure the RN museum will know well...I will get all my photos copied ASAP, all the best from North Wales...
As a young lad in 1970s Liverpool, my friend's dad worked on Liverpool docks, and on a couple of occasions took us onboard the "S.S Landfall" when it was moored in Collingwood Dock. I remember it was in a REALLY sorry state, and even though as a young lad I was vaguely aware that it had taken part in D-Day seeing it as it was in the late 70s it was hard to imagine it being true.
The memory crossed my mind earlier this evening, and I though I'd search around online to see what had become of the old wreck, and first discovered that it had been purchased by the "Merseyside Historic Warship Preservation Trust" in 1994... before the HWPT went bust.
Then on finding that it had been funded by the lottery heritage committee I searched YT for LCT 7074 and then find THIS GEM !!! Not ashamed to say I almost felt a bit "misty eyed" myself to see such an unbelievable transformation from the rusting wreck I remembered from childhood, that I'd imagined had been scrapped many years ago.
What a fantastic memorial to the brave lads who manned these craft in such awful conditions. I'm so VERY glad to see that some of the veterans are still around to see how their efforts and heroism are being remembered.
Great work, Great video... thank you.
Nice stream, Andrew, and many thanks for featuring my father Roger's model of LCT(R) 438.
I've just found this site. I was interested in the report of the skipper of LCT 922 and the comment about the assistance of LCT737. My father was the skipper of LCT 737. I'm interested in finding out where these reports are stored and whether we have access to any more.
Hello, you can see some of our collections online including this report: theddaystory.com/ElasticSearch/?si_elastic_searchterm=922. We don't have lots of similar reports, but it just happens that the officer who wrote this one kept a copy, which was later donated to our museum. The main source of these sort of reports would be the National Archives at Kew, where there are reports on Force G for example (the naval force for Gold Beach).
Thanks!
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There has been no mention as yet of 7074's conversion into either one of ten LCT(E) Emergency Repair craft destined for the far east or one of three NSC (L), a floating engineering workshop where the tank deck was decked over and further superstructure added providing the space for the workshops and later the Master Mariners club Landfall and finally George Evans' night club...
We could only touch on the LCT's history in the livestream, but you are right that it was an important part of the ship's history (and is told in more detail on the displays on board).
@@TheDDayStory I have a friend who lives just up the road from you and I am going to ask him to visit you and take some photos of your display, he and is wife have a holiday home up here on Anglesey. His wife's father was awarded an AFC for flying his Canberra through the mushroom cloud during Operation Grapple...now that is another story as I'm sure the RN museum will know well...I will get all my photos copied ASAP, all the best from North Wales...
@@mandiabrahams7824 Thank you, that's kind of you Mandi. About the photos you can contact us at theddaystory@portsmouthcc.gov.uk