Landing Craft Assault (British drawings

I am looking for drawings of the Landing Craft Assault, the British model.. Who can help

 

The LCA(HR) is very similar but I don't have a drawing of it. Will check another source.

 

Found a page on the LCA. We'll see if this helps. Scanning now.

 

Thanks in advance !

 

This is from United States Naval Vessels: The Official United States Navy Reference Manual Prepared by the Division of Naval Intelligence 1September 1945

LCA.jpg

 

There's another page of pictures with variations (four in all) if you want them.

 

Plans for sale at the bottom of this page.

And this:

 

Try searching the forum. I posted some drawings/plans of a LCT (T) earlier this year for another member that had all the dimensions. I posted a link to the site that I'm sure had other variants.

Regards
Andy

 

I can recomend the book "Assault Landing Craft" by Brian Lavery - Seaforth Publishing. Haven't read it all yet [Christmas present] and there are no scale drawings but plenty of details of construction.
I also can also scan a magazine article from "Modelworld" of Sept 1972 which includes a plan for producing a cardboard model in 1/76 scale.
PM me if I can help
Noel

 

The card LCA feature was also reprinted in Army & Navy Modelworld Aug 1984, just before the magazine lost its 20th Century focus. Unfortunately, the plan itself is only two views (as above) though the cutting template has additional detail.
And thanks for that recommendation, Noel.
Regards,
Andrew

 

after i read this Interesting article from RATSON Shipyard Indonesia in Landing Craft Tank (LCT), Tug Boat, Oil Tanker / Self Propelled Oil Barge (SPOB), Deck Cargo Barge, Fiber Boat for Sale by RATSON Shipyard Indonesia. Ship, i got an idea to make 3d models of Landing Craft Tank (LCT) for business & military purpose..

Landing Craft Tank (LCT) for bussines purpose, boats and seagoing vehicles are used to carry container cargo on the deck and liquid cargo placed in tank under the deck from the sea to the shore. Most renowned Landing Craft Tank (LCT) for bussines purpose, vessels are developed to almost all shipyards in balikpapan - indonesia.

Landing Craft Tank (LCT) developed in Balikpapan-Indonesia

Landing Craft Tank (LCT) for military purpose, boats and seagoing vehicles are used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. Most renowned are those used to storm the beaches of Normandy, the Mediterranean, and many Pacific islands during WWII. This was the high point of the Landing Craft, with a significant number of different designs produced in large quantities by the United Kingdom, United States and now operate almost of all countrys.

Because of the need to run up onto a suitable beach, WWII Landing Craft were flat-bottomed, and many designs had a flat front, often with a lowerable ramp, rather than a normal bow. This made them difficult to control and very uncomfortable in rough seas. The control point (bridge was far too fancy a description for the facilities of the LCA and similar craft) was normally situated at the extreme rear of the vessel as were the engines. In all cases they tended to be known by an abbreviation derived from the official name rather than by the full title.

USA Military Landing Craft Tank (LCT)

does anyone have other references?

brgds,
yp

 

Landing Craft infantry from Sovyet is interesting...

 

Are these links, previously supplied by others, of any interest to you ?

LCM (Landing Craft Mechanised) Mark 1 ... - Ships

D-Day : Normandy 1944 - Allied Landing Craft

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/barracks/20576-return-sicily-after-66-years.html

Regards

Ron

 

The light assault landing craft were quite small, and attached to the Mother ships "Davits"???

We have all heard the American opinion that Sword was an easy landing where in fact, it was the mist heavily defended area anywhere on the invasion coast.

So here are a few facts.

For many years it was claimed that we had it easy on Sword Beach, not true, the following from one of the assault ships log, lays this misinformation to rest, what follows later, is Stan Hough’s record taken from the log of one of the ships that carried the Assault craft. Princess Astrid. Bless her! She hit a mine in the channel after the war and sunk!

The Princess lost 4 out of her 8 Assault landing craft.
Princess Charlotte lost 7 out of 8.
MV Victoria lost 5 out of 6.
Prince Henry lost 5 out of 8.
Finally Prince David lost all 8.

On reflection, the loss of 29 Assault craft out of a total of 38 with only 9 saved, hardly bears out the idea of an "Easy landing" But, such is the power of propaganda that these myths are assumed to be true and become fixed as part of the Legend of D Day.
Sapper

 

I've just taken receipt of a load of drawings from the National Maritime Museum at Greenwhich, with which I hope to build a RC 1/6th scale LCA.

I started with the old Modelworld plans (actually, an ill-considered boast and a large cardboard packing case led my wife to challenge me to 'make something large out of this') and about a year or so ago my eldest boy and I cut up this large packing case and and turned it into a rough 1/6th version of an LCA (it did it's job and shut the wife up.... for a day or so). That gave me the bug and the Lavery book, mentioned above, took it further. I contacted the chaps at Greenwich and told them what I was doing and what I needed, with special attention to the underside of the LCA. A week or so later I received a large set of plans, all different scales but more than adequate to the job. Now all I need is time to get cracking.

The email address at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich is...

plansandphoto AT nmm.ac.uk

You will need to make the relevant substitution to make the email address work.

When I contacted them they at first suggested a list of drawings that might be relevant to my needs and I accepted these. Then a few days later I was contacted by phone by a chap called Andrew Choong Han who had retrieved the drawings on the Thornycroft LCA, Yard Number 1215, and found that some of those listed were missing. He offered to substitute alternatives and I was happy to accept his offer, having again expalined what I was after. When the plans arrived I was overjoyed with what I'd got..I can't remember what I paid for them now but the chaps at the NMM will help there. BTW Mr Choong's email addy would be AChoong AT the NMM, (see above and make the relevant substitutions). Hope all this helps.

 

Make it a little bit bigger and you could dispense with the radio control!

That sounds a seriously good project - good luck with it and hope to see some photos.

 

I will indeed post some pics when I get it completed. However, at the moment I still have a couple of Cromwells to complete, which I can now get back to as the good weather is here again. Here's a quick pic of the one my boys and I knocked-up, using cardboard and masking tape, from the old Modelworld plans. It's a bit rough and the rain got to it by the time I took this picture, but that's an old Actionman standing in front to give it a bit of scale!

 

I'm new to the forums, I'm really impressed by all your posts and this 1/6 LCA looks like it will be amazing. A lot of people don't realize, the LCA was actually armoured and also designed for night attack, it was low in the water and wider than the American landing craft, which tended to guarantee sea sickness and machine gun holes. I model in the dreaded 1/72 scale and will be making some LCA for my dioramas, I'll post them up when finished. There is a company in the UK called SandSmodels which make resin versions of the LCA, I spoke to them last week and they are digging through their basement to find the moulds. And yes, I have seen plenty of images of LCA attached to the rear davits of LST's...

 

Well, with the scrapping of the LCA at the Arromanches museum, I thought they'd all gone. Apparently not:

http://www.landingcraftrestoration.com/

It's slightly embarrassing that they're being restored because of their association with the Rangers but hats off to whoever found and acquired them.

 

Where were they found?