LCT 411 HMS
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:02 pm
She is the Royal Navy type Mark3 type built landing craft, the USA did have a same number but she was not in Normandy.
Built by Redpatch Brown & Co., Meadowside, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
1941 Ordered.
Displacement 650 ton, dim. 59 x 9.1 x 1.17m. (draught forward)
Powered by 2 Paxman diesel engines each 460 hp or 2 Sterling petrol engines, twin shafts, speed 9 knots.
Range 2,700 mile by full speed.
Capacity 305 ton.
Armament 2 – 2pdr pom-pom, 2 – Bofors 40 mm guns.
Crew 12
1942 Completed as LCT 411.
She took part in the D-Day operation on 7 June 1944.
1945 Sold to the Netherlands, most probably to the Dutch Royal Navy and used by them in the operations in Indonesia after World War II. After Indonesia got there independence a lot of equipment was shifted to Papua New Guinea which was still a Dutch colony after the Indonesian independence. Do not have any fleet list of the Dutch Navy from that time.
Fate unknown.
Wikipedia gives the following on the Mark 3 type:
The Mark 3 had an additional 32-foot (9.8 m) midsection that gave it a length of 192 feet (59 m) and a displacement of 640 tons. Even with this extra weight the vessel was slightly faster than the Mark 1. The Mk.3 was accepted on 8 April 1941, and was prefabricated in five sections. The increase in length allowed it to carry five 40-ton tanks and all their related support equipment, or 300 tons of deck cargo. Though the Royal Navy appreciated the higher load capacity of the Mk.3 it soon discovered several construction deficiencies. The craft had evidently been pressed into service without sufficient testing; combat operations demonstrated the need to add longitudinal stiffeners to the Mk.3s (and later the Mk.4s) in order to avoid torsional stresses to the hull. Two hundred and thirty-five Mk.3's were built
Palau SG694
Built by Redpatch Brown & Co., Meadowside, Scotland for the Royal Navy.
1941 Ordered.
Displacement 650 ton, dim. 59 x 9.1 x 1.17m. (draught forward)
Powered by 2 Paxman diesel engines each 460 hp or 2 Sterling petrol engines, twin shafts, speed 9 knots.
Range 2,700 mile by full speed.
Capacity 305 ton.
Armament 2 – 2pdr pom-pom, 2 – Bofors 40 mm guns.
Crew 12
1942 Completed as LCT 411.
She took part in the D-Day operation on 7 June 1944.
1945 Sold to the Netherlands, most probably to the Dutch Royal Navy and used by them in the operations in Indonesia after World War II. After Indonesia got there independence a lot of equipment was shifted to Papua New Guinea which was still a Dutch colony after the Indonesian independence. Do not have any fleet list of the Dutch Navy from that time.
Fate unknown.
Wikipedia gives the following on the Mark 3 type:
The Mark 3 had an additional 32-foot (9.8 m) midsection that gave it a length of 192 feet (59 m) and a displacement of 640 tons. Even with this extra weight the vessel was slightly faster than the Mark 1. The Mk.3 was accepted on 8 April 1941, and was prefabricated in five sections. The increase in length allowed it to carry five 40-ton tanks and all their related support equipment, or 300 tons of deck cargo. Though the Royal Navy appreciated the higher load capacity of the Mk.3 it soon discovered several construction deficiencies. The craft had evidently been pressed into service without sufficient testing; combat operations demonstrated the need to add longitudinal stiffeners to the Mk.3s (and later the Mk.4s) in order to avoid torsional stresses to the hull. Two hundred and thirty-five Mk.3's were built
Palau SG694