Landing craft tag off beach
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Landing craft tag off beach
At my usual muddy estuary on a very blowy afternoon, found an oval key tag stamped LCT 4 519 and on back Eng Spares S7, a bit of work reveals that its a key tag off a Landing craft Tank Mk and theres a craft 519 is listed as a D day craft which returned unlike 518 and 520 which both stayed on the utah beaches. Might be a little bit of brass but it may have been on a big journey! If i can wade thu the navy records might even find the crew details. There is another LCT mk6 with same 519 number so I havnt found the full history yet. The estuary is very thick smelly mud but on a windy afternoon its ok, waded out to the remains of a boat propeller but it was iron not brass and 4 foot across so too heavy to cut off or drag in, it looking so promising from the shore!
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Christoph1945
You may reunite the keytag with the craft driver! Good luck with your search. I also trust that you are not wading into a muddy estuary on your own!
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Nice find!itchenmud wrote:At my usual muddy estuary on a very blowy afternoon, found an oval key tag stamped LCT 4 519 and on back Eng Spares S7, a bit of work reveals that its a key tag off a Landing craft Tank Mk and theres a craft 519 is listed as a D day craft which returned unlike 518 and 520 which both stayed on the utah beaches. Might be a little bit of brass but it may have been on a big journey! If i can wade thu the navy records might even find the crew details. There is another LCT mk6 with same 519 number so I havnt found the full history yet. The estuary is very thick smelly mud but on a windy afternoon its ok, waded out to the remains of a boat propeller but it was iron not brass and 4 foot across so too heavy to cut off or drag in, it looking so promising from the shore!
Expect you've already seen the link below, but other members might be interested in the ships full history:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160519.htm
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Yes these things were huge, proper ships that had infantry landing craft also strapped to the davits. Must have had lots of lockers on board and now ichenmud has got a bit of one!Christoph1945 wrote:I didn't realise that a landing craft was that big.
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Christoph1945
When he said "landing craft"; I was thinking of one of those troop landing craft that you see in D Day landing newsreals. 
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