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#905547 18th Oct 2014 10:28pm
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Some photographs I took of the historic last surviving D-Day landing craft being raised in Birkenhead Docks.

http://jhlphotography.smugmug.com/Irish-Sea-Shipping-2014/Historic-Ships-2014/LCT-7074/

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Great pics, thanks. It looks bigger in the flesh.

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Great photos - thanks for posting

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Great pics.Thanks for putting them on here.Was dying to see what she looked like.
Is she still there?

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Re lct. Thanks for the pics, brings back memories having rolled off one of them a few times.

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LCT 7074 has been loaded aboard a transport ship and is now en route to Portsmouth. See here ...

http://www.uk.arteliagroup.com/lct7074-re-float-part-two/


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LCT7074 aka "Landfall" has now been restored and delivered to her final destination



The history of this craft



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And a timelapse of her transportation. Its an amazing testament to her build quality that after all this time as a submerged wreck she was still strong enough to be lifted on just two slings. I'd forgotten about the floating dock being used to transport her.



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Gald it wasn;t in 'real time' but extraordinary to watch. A fair amount of mathematics used for that operation !


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Was this used many moons ago as Clubship Landfall moored in Liverpool, I went to someone’s hen night on it If it same one ?

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Originally Posted by cools
Was this used many moons ago as Clubship Landfall moored in Liverpool, I went to someone’s hen night on it If it same one ?


One and the same, it must have been used in Liverpool and Birkenhead because of numerous reports from both locations.


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Heck , Cools . It is indeed. Clubship Landfall and she was my regular Fri or /Sat night out. I remember we had to get to it via a rickety old bridge across the Canning Dock in the dark.
Many memories of that place, some good, some not so good . Ha ! Went on a blind date , wearing a short blonde wig (my hair was almost black and shoulder length) . Never having drunk whisky in my life, I spent the night on Canadian Club.. needless to say the wig dropped off at some point and the shock horror realisations , sent the blind date running. !!

Plenty of stories...of a mis-spent youth !


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Ha , yes I remember that bridge Granny, not good for a gang of tipsy girls all trying to get on at once...remember it being a good night though, don’t remember getting off it ha...Blind dates aaah only went on one , disaster never again.

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That is one superb restoration.
I Didn't even know it was in the docks. How long was it left to rot?


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