Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074

Landing Craft Tank (LCT) 7074 is the latest exhibit in the The D-Day Story Museum and the last surviving LCT from the D-Day landing. March-April 1944 constructed at the yard of R & W Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn, Tyne and Wear. May 1944. Crew carryout training aboard the LCT in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. 2 June 1944. Ten tanks from 7th Armoured Division are loaded onboard at Felixstowe, Suffolk 5 June 1944, LCT 7074 departs for Normandy 6 June 1944. Arrives off Gold Beach, Normandy 7 June 1944. Disembarks tanks onto Gold Beach in the early hours of the morning June 1944-April 1945. Completes many more trips to France and later Belgium carrying more tanks, troops and supplies from Southampton and Dover. 1947-late 1970. Floating nightclub in Albert Docks Mersey side. Neglected she sank in the basin until salvaged with a National Lottery grant and repaired and refurbished at Portsmouth Naval Base before being unveiled in August 2020. Two examples of D-Day era tanks have been installed on the tank deck.