What the buyer wrote
"LCT 7074, also known as 'Landfall,' is the last Second World War Landing Craft (Tank) in the United Kingdom, and one of the last in the world. More than 800 LCTs took part in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, each capable of carrying ten tanks or other heavy armoured vehicles into battle. As far as can be established, 7074 is the last of these vital workhorses known to have actually participated in D-Day. After a chequered postwar career involving conversion into a floating clubhouse and nightclub, and then an ill-fated attempt to conserve her by the now-defunct Warships Preservation Trust, the ship was semi-derelict and sunk at her moorings at East Float Dock, Birkenhe…
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- LCT 7074 - Vessel Conservation Services
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- works
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 19 Feb 2018
- Work ends
- 8 Apr 2019
- Kind of work
- Transport and fleet
Who the buyer named
Ross MacAskill was the named contact on this notice.