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Landing Craft Tank
HM LCT(CB)-2041
 ex
 LCT(5)-41


LCT(5)-41 was transferred to Great Britain under terms of the lend-lease program for the duration of World War II
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 5) Class:
  • Laid down, 6 July 1942, at Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, KS.
  • Launched, 22 August 1942
  • Delivered, 1 September 1942
  • LCT(5)-41 saw no active service with the US Navy
  • Transferred, 22 October 1942, to the United Kingdom, under the Lend-Lease program, redesignated HM LCT-2041(CB) (Concrete Buster)
  • HM LCT(CB)-2041 participated in the Invasion of Normandy, Juno Beach, 6 June 1944, at Courseulles, LT. Edward Prentice RNVR, in command
  • Struck from the Naval Register, 26 February 1946
  • Returned, 13 March 1946, to the US State Department, Foreign Liquidation Commission
  • Sold in April 1946
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 285 t.(fl)
    Length 114' 2" (o.a.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft
    limiting 3' 6"
    max.navigational 3' 6"
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement
    1 officer
    10 enlisted
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament
    two single 20mm AA gun mounts
    two .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor
    wheelhouse 2 1/2"
    gun shields 2"
    Fuel Capacity Diesel 80 Bbls
    Propulsion
    three Grey Marine 6-71 Diesel engines
    one Diesel-drive 20Kw 120V. D.C. Ships' service generator
    three propellers, 675shp
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    LCT-41
    1018004101    		 441k LCT(5)-41 on the builder's ways at Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, KS., circa July - August 1942.
    General Photographs of the Bureau of Ships, 1914-1946; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1222, 112 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19; National Archives, Washington, D.C.     		David Upton
    LCT-41
    1018004102    		 419k LCT(5)-41 under construction, with an unknown LCT outboard, tied up at Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, KS. on the Missouri River in August 1942.
    General Photographs of the Bureau of Ships, 1914-1946; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1222, 112 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19; National Archives, Washington, D.C.     		David Upton
    LCT-42
    1018004201    		 382k LCT(5)-41 and LCT(5)-42 tied up at Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, KS., circa August-Septmber 1942.
    General Photographs of the Bureau of Ships, 1914-1946; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1222, 112 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Ships, Record Group 19; National Archives, Washington, D.C.     		David Upton
    LCT-42
    1018004203    		 378k
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