D-Day's LAST SURVIVING Tank Landing Craft Makes Its FINAL Journey! | Forces TV
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2020
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The last surviving tank landing craft used on D-Day arrived in Southsea last month as part of its move to a museum. LCT 7074 was restored at the Portsmouth Naval Base in a £4.7 million project and is the last of 800 vessels of its kind used during the Normandy Landings in June 1944.
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People often forget that these were as important as the tanks and planes used in fighting
@Karlos Khaos Amateurs talk about tactics, professional discuss Logistics.
thank you for preserving this historic vessel...
Isnt it amazing how in times of war we can knock stuff out like wildfire Spits Lancaster's landing craft ect But it always costs millions to put them back together.
That's because in conservation you have to keep as much as possible of the original. If it was just a everyday work-about boat you would rip out the defect and replace it with a new piece of metal. Restoring something that's been under water is even more challenging as if you remove the rust it may just fall apart. In some past restorations with metal objects the chemicals they've used are now being found to be highly corrosive and are starting to destroy them!
Brilliant restoration of the LCT 7074, the last of Britain’s D-Day landing craft that took 6 years and much funding, not to mention the love, respect & effort to bring her back to life! SO happy to hear of this triumph! Well done! And, to those remaining WWII veterans, THANK YOU! YOU are our treasures. You shall ALWAYS be remembered with respect, pride & gratitude. Well done! 🙏🏼💙✨🌊⚓️🌅🇬🇧
Fantastic it will survive for future generations. Hopefully it will help them to never forget the sacrifices made by our forefathers.
£5,00000. Amazing they got the funding for it. I have a photo of a ship just like it that carried my Grandfather to Sword Beach. He’s truck was transported by one with 12th Corps CMP.
mental it's still about you know, absolutely wonderful stuff
Amazing job, well done!
good to see her again and in better condition
Great job of restoration and preservation.
Stunning work. Well done all. Will look forward to visiting her. 👍🏻😊
good job lads
I often walk by this fine piece of work. And I always admire the work that went into restoring it back to life . Thank you
My grandfather was an LCt skipper during D-day and at Tobruk. I really do need a trip to see 7074 will be amazing to see
Can't wait to go on board, BZ's to the restorers 👍🏻👍🏻
Thankyou for your Service God Bless You 🙏🏻🇬🇧🙏🏻
Glad this was found
Very well done and congratulations on restoring her I'd love to see her myself.
Incredible restoration guys!!!
I watched as she was left to rot in Birkenhead. So glad this was not lost, such a shame HMS Plymouth & HMS Onyx were lost to the scrap yards. I feel the history of HMS Plymouth should have seen her next to HMS Victory.
US: YOU GET A MUSEUM BATTLESHIP AND YOU GET A MUSEUM BATTLESHIP, EVERYBODY GETS A MUSEUM BATTLESHIP!
UK after inventing the battleship and building the last one ever: let's scrap everything heavier than a light cruiser
Go back to 1950 when everyone was poor and food was still being rationed, and try to convince them to spend money on preserving these monstrous hulls from a war everyone was sick of.
@@jej3451 I understand however in the 30s they were also sick of war, WW2 showed no matter how hard you try to avoid war, sometimes it comes knocking at the door anyway and then you have to endure. I'm sure in 1960 they could have spared the money to permanently dock Vanguard giving her the bare minimum of manteinance, the last of her kind to come out of that awful period of history.
10 tanks?! Good god. And 900 built?! That’s outrageous. Even today that would be tough.
It was used as a nightclub in a dock in liverpool in the 70s had a few nights out in it
i donated to this a long time ago. nice to see it finally done :)
Grand Job .
Amazing.
Awesome stuff. Shame about 'Hobarts funnies' though?
There are several at Bovington; i.e. 'Crab','DD', 'Crocodile" etc.
Very interesting indeed. This type of craft looks very similar to a wreck that we often dive to off the South West Scotland coast. Ammunition Dumping Craft 527 was a converted LCT mk 4, built by McLellans of Glasgow. It sunk in 1946 with all 8 hands (God rest their souls).
Awesome
I have seen it and yes it's big thank God it was saved as it's the only one left to Mark s day
Wow.. That view @ 1:28 Where and what firms built these?
My Grandfather was on LCT 533 at d-day
There's two rotting away in Poole Harbour, Dorset. 50°42'30.8"N 1°59'12.1"W
Glad to see her restored! The Brits don't have a good record of preserving ships. I mean, HMS Warspite served the Royal Navy with distinction through BOTH world wars, and, they sold her for scrap for her trouble!
Hang On! Have you seen the Mary Rose? She went down in 1545 and we've done a good job in preserving her!
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I’d like to see the big guns which are sadly missing from this exhibition. This is Portsmouth, after all; think about Spithead, about the times when 15’ battleships would steam out of this harbour. The Warspite had announced the seaborne phase of the operation, then The Ramilies, The Nelson, pummelled Nazi positions with accuracy Air Force could only dream of - range finding and fire control ten miles away from shore. Landing barge is okay, but they should have kept one of the battleships. What a sight The Warspite would be today!
Lovely, shame that all the battleships were scraped.
My colleague's Father was part of a crew sent across to Normandy beaches during darkness in the weeks before D-Day to release small flocks of sheep onto the beaches ... to explode MINES.
one of the main missing components for ( Hitler's ) Operation sealion , and one reason why Hitler's op was doomed to failure ( along with a lot of other things )
What an eyesore ...maybe ask the residents of portsmouth what they think of it!!....should have spent the £7 million more wisely,you only have to drive 5 mins in land to see were the money should have been spent !
Almost no video of the LCT. WTH? I guess politics is more important than history.
Sure if you think that's a good use of five million quid lol.