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Landing Craft (Gun) Tower

Catamaran

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
name	Landing Craft (Gun) Tower
builders	Derman Long & Sir Alexander Gibb
operators	Royal Navy
total_ships_planned	Several
total_ships_completed	One, LC(G)T1
total_ships_active	None
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
class	Landing Craft (Gun) Tower
length	130 ft
beam	13 ft
height	*50 ft from keel to top of structure
*{{convert	12.5	ft	abbr	on}} from keel to main deck
draught	Variable
power	circa 300 bhp
propulsion	2 x shaft diesel engines, one to each hull, Leyland bus pattern
complement	12
armament	*2 × 6-inch howitzer
notes

12.5 ft from keel to main deck
4 × 20mm guns

Landing Craft (Gun) Tower, abbreviated as LC(G)T, also known as the Normandy Bombardment Tower, was a unique catamaran built in 1943. It was designed to act as a semi-mobile gun tower which could be used to out-gun any German beach defences during the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. It is described in some sources as a "semi-submersible austerity inshore monitor".

Several were originally planned, but only one was built as the design had been superseded by the various other support craft in production, such as the Landing Craft Tank (Rocket).

HMS LC(G)T 1 was never used, and was sold post-war to a company in Hong Kong, who used it as a lifting craft.

References

Cocker, Maurice. (2006). "Coastal Forces Vessels of the Royal Navy from 1865". Tempus Publishing.

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