Originally Posted by
gregs dad
My brother tells me Eric Carr ,the Liverpool wood sculpturer was a friend of the owner of Club Landfall and lived aboard as watchman while it was in the Canning.
In 1971 they were told it would have to move out of the Canning as there were plans for the bridge to be sealed. After moving to the Salthouse the plans for the bridge were cancelled. The Master Mariners the original owners sold it to the new owners for ?15,000 which was a lot of money in those days
It remained in Canning Dock. I went aboard a few times. You could see the taper to the bows inside - the disco. I never knew at the time it contained 5 tanks and put 10 down. 9 got to the beaches Troops were also put down. In the after noon they just walked ashore.
I'm not sure what time of day it put the tanks down on the beach (Gold Beach on D-Day). In the afternoon there would have been not much opposition as the beach was secured by then. If on one of the earlier a.m. waves, it would have used its twin guns on the rear bridge, when coming ashore firing at German beach positions.
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Towards the end of the war work started to convert her to a maintenance ship in the invasion of Japan. Then Japan surrendered. She was built on the Tyne using American engines.
I would be great if she was put back to dull D-Day spec including guns.
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