The Landfall story
Subtitle: The D-Day Veteran that lived on as a unique floating club
By: by George Evans.
Publisher: George Evans
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Naval History; Liverpool Life
First sentence: The floating Ex World War Two Landing Craft finally became ours on the 1st of July 1971 when The Master Mariners Club agreed to sell us the craft lock, stock and barrel for the sum of £15,000 which was a lot of money in those days!
Description: THE LANDFALL STORY

This is the story of a naval vessel - not an important ship, not even a well-known craft. She was one of hundreds of Tank Landing Craft that took part in the greatest invasion in history - the most fantastic, awe-inspiring and comprehensive crusade conceived and successfully executed by mankind. The D-Day Invasion of Europe-The Normandy Landings-'Operation Overlord.” This tells the story of one- of those ships - there is no other story to be told - she is the only one stilI surviving that was there when it happened - and then she became a well-known Night-Club in Liverpool's dockland!


For over over fifty years LCT 7074 MK III has lain in the Liverpool Docks, providing a comfortable haven and headquarters for Members of the Merseyside Master Mariners Club. Over a million people have walked aboard, without realising the historical background behind the grey, riveted steel.

Now is the time for that story to be told and in doing so to invoke the memory of the men who gave their lives on those beaches, so that Europe could be free.
Notes: At the cessation of hostilities it was presented as a gift by a grateful Admiralty, to The Master Mariners of Liverpool who had performed such heroic deeds in the Battles of the Atlantic. The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board willingly provided a berth.
Table of contents: pagenum: 4
class: part
label: Introduction; pagenum: 10
title: The Development of Tank Landing Craft
class: part
label: 1; pagenum: 30
title: The Tanks
class: part
label: 2; pagenum: 36
title: The Great Crusade
class: part
label: 3; pagenum: 61
label: 4
class: part
title: Diary of a Number One; pagenum: 68
title: Between the Wars
class: part
label: 5; pagenum: 74
title: Calm Waters
class: part
label: 6; pagenum: 96
label: 7
class: part
title: New Owners; pagenum: 109
label: 8
class: part
title: The Army Takes Command; pagenum: 110
label: 9
class: part
title: Report of Survey