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Old 23rd September 2017, 15:03
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Last landing craft.

I feel a bit late to this story, but it must be good news?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-3438...-in-portsmouth

How moving it to Portsmouth was achieved I don't know, and what happened at Birkenhead seems a little foggy, but it is good to see that the last Landing Craft won't disappear.
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Old 23rd September 2017, 17:37
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Agreed. Much larger than I imagined. Why the retrofit high stack I wonder.

Not Petrol driven originally were they? Would make sense with the grades of fuel required to transport.

Pa (an ML man) often opined that a pint of petrol in the bilges was more dangerous than gun cotton.
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This vessel is one of the second series of LCT(3) built, and according to the book by Lenton and Colledge, they had Stirling petrol engines. These were more powerful than the Davey Paxman diesels fitted to the first series, and gave them a higher speed of just over 11 knots.
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#3 Many thanks DS.
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