Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074

Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074 is the latest exhibit in the The D-Day Story Museum and the last surviving LCT from the D-Day landing.

March-April 1944 constructed at the yard of R & W Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn, Tyne and Wear.
May 1944. Crew carryout training aboard the LCT in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
2 June 1944. Ten tanks from 7th Armoured Division are loaded onboard at Felixstowe, Suffolk
5 June 1944, LCT 7074 departs for Normandy
6 June 1944. Arrives off Gold Beach, Normandy
7 June 1944. Disembarks tanks onto Gold Beach in the early hours of the morning
June 1944-April 1945. Completes many more trips to France and later Belgium carrying more tanks, troops and supplies from Southampton and Dover.
1947-late 1970. Floating nightclub in Albert Docks Mersey side.
Neglected she sank in the basin until salvaged with a National Lottery grant and repaired and refurbished at Portsmouth Naval Base before being unveiled in August 2020.
Two examples of D-Day era tanks have been installed on the tank deck.

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Source

• Text: Sharky Ward
• Photos: Anthony (Sharky) Ward