LCA 1375 LANDING CRAFT ASSAULT

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The LCA (Landing Craft Assault) were built in the UK by John I. Thornycroft Ltd. and others for the Royal Navy and the Canadian Navy.
Al together over the 2000 were built between 1939 and 1945.
Tonnage 4 long tons, dim. 12.6 x 3.0 m
Powered by two 65 hp Ford V-8 petrol engines, speed 6 knots when loaded.
Could carry 36 troops or 363 kg cargo.
Armament: 1 Bren light machine gun.
Crew 4.
Below is given what Wikipedia gives on the landings on Juno Beach by the LCAs and the landing of the LCA 1375 from the KING DAVID.

On Juno Beach, RCN, RN, and RM flotillas employed 142 LCAs and experienced some difficulty getting the units of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division to shore. Earlier, ten minutes had been lost to delays during the passage of Task Force J from Southampton. The I Corps planners had scheduled the landing on Nan, the eastern sector of Juno, at 07:45, 20 minutes later than on Mike, the western sector. The planners considered that Nan landing craft would require higher water to navigate among what aerial photographs suggested were underwater rocks, but later discovered that this threat had been much overestimated and that much of the shoal was actually floating seaweed. At any rate, the shallow draft of the LCAs managed the transit without trouble from the shoals, but other deeper draft landing craft types were at risk. The water had risen fast in the strong north-westerly wind. When LCA carrying assault infantry approached the beach, the crews discovered that the tide was running too high for demolition personnel to clear lanes through the beach obstacles (Demolition personnel on Juno used four LCA(OC)s, Obstacle Clearance).Consequently, landing craft had to disembark their troops among the obstacles or smash through them.
The LCA 1375 was carried on board the Canadian merchant ship PRINCE DAVED by Wikipedia is given what happened on 6th June 1944 with her landings craft under which the LCA 1375 under command of Lt. G.E.Allin.
On D-Day, 6 June 1944, PRINCE DAVID embarked 418 troops, including elements of Le Régiment de la Chaudière, Royal Marines and a detachment of British pioneers on the Mike and Nan beaches in the Juno sector. First to be lowered were the two Royal Navy craft which she carried in addition to her own. Their mission was to provide supporting small-arms fire and to clear mines and obstacles in advance of the assault craft. The Canadian landing craft then followed to form up with craft from other Canadian Flotillas. H-hour was set for 7.25, and after a delay of twenty minutes for a more favourable tide in the Juno sector, PRINCE DAVID’s landing craft started their hour-long trip to the beaches. Over the course of the day, all but one of her craft had been crippled, sunk or beached high and dry. As the one remaining assault craft made its way back to PRINCE DAVID, a charging tank carrier forced her over an obstacle, which tore out her bottom and she sank at once. An outbound lighter ferried her crew back to PRINCE DAVID With wounded on board and unable to retrieve any of her landing craft, PRINCE DAVID sailed to Southampton, ending her D-Day involvement.
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The photo gives how a LCA looks.