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Landing Craft Tank
LCT-120 / HM LCT(A)-2120


LCT-120 was Lend-Lease to the United Kingdom
Landing Craft Tank (Mark 5) Class:
  • Laid down (date unknown) at Quincy Barge Builders, Quincy, IL.
  • Launched (date unknown)
  • Delivered in 1942
  • Transferred to Great Britain under the lend-lease program, redesignated HM LCT(A)-2120
  • HM LCT(A)-2120 participated in the Invasion of Normandy, 6 June 1944 and saw service in the Far East
    "On the morning of D-Day in Normandy HMLCT(A) 2120 was a unit of the 105th LCT(A)(HE) Flotilla of Assault Group J1 Support Squadron....as such she landed Centaur tanks of the Royal Marine Armoured Support Group at Courseulles sur Mer (JUNO) in support of the 7th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Division. The Centaur tanks carried were mounted on the custom built, raised gun deck or firing platform in the bows which allowed them to fire over the bows as 2120 made her approach. Having discharged her tanks and while attempting to retract she struck a mine and was knocked out. She was duly recovered and repaired and in the autumn of 1944 was lifted and carried by HMLST 403 for service Far East....she was later launched from 403 in Calcutta where she served with the 120th LCT Flotilla."
    Tony Chapman
    Official Archivist/Historian LST and Landing Craft Association (Royal Navy)
  • Struck from the Naval Register (date unknown)
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 286 short tons
    Length 114' 2" (ovl.)
    Beam 32' 8"
    Draft 3'
    Speed 10 kts.
    Range 700 nautical miles at 7 kts.
    Complement 13
    Cargo Capacity 150 short tons
    Armament 1 single 20mm AA gun mount, 2 .50 cal. machine guns
    Armor 2 1/2" wheelhouse, 2" gun shield
    Propulsion 3 Grey Marine Diesels, 3 propellers, Shaft horsepower 675 per shaft
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    LST-366 67k HM LCT(A)-2120 loaded on the deck of HM LST-403 as she gets underway for duty in the Far East, date and place unknown. Robert Hurst
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