Operators Royal Navy Completed One, LC(G)T1 | Planned Several Active None | |
Name Landing Craft (Gun) Tower Builders Derman Long & Sir Alexander Gibb | ||
Landing Craft (Gun) Tower, abbreviated as LC(G)T, also known as the Normandy Bombardment Tower, was a unique catamaran built in 1943. It was designed to act as a semi-mobile gun tower which could be used to out-gun any German beach defences during the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. It is described in some sources as a "semi-submersible austerity inshore monitor".
Several were originally planned, but only one was built as the design had been superseded by the various other support craft in production, such as the Landing Craft Tank (Rocket).
HMS LC(G)T 1, was never used, and was sold post-war to a company in Hong Kong, who used it as a lifting craft.
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