The Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) (or tank landing craft, TLC) [1] [2] was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads. They were initially developed by the Royal Navy and later by the United States Navy during World War II in a series of versions.

坦克登陆艇（landing craft, tank，LCT）是运载坦克在滩头敌前火力下登陆的船艇。二战时英国海军提出这一船型。美国大量生产制造LCT，并在二战后继续发展这一船型。

CLASSIFICATION Originally rated as Landing Craft, Tank (LCT(6)) re-designated (Utility Landing Ships, LSU) in 1949 to reflect varied employment; designation changed to (Utility Landing Craft, LCU) on 15 April 1952 and classified as service craft.

2024年6月6日 · The landing craft, tank (LCT) (or tank landing craft, TLC) was an amphibious assault craft tailored to land tanks directly on beachheads. The concept was initially developed by the Royal Navy but as the need for these rose woth …

LCTs were the Navys all purpose general duty vessel. Besides carrying tanks ashore they were used for many different purposes. Some were converted and equiped with guns, others with rockets, while still others served as minesweepers. 26 MK5s were designated LCT (A), armored.

The LCT—or landing craft, tank—was built in a variety of sizes, the largest being 203 feet long. Many LCTs were modified for close-in fire support. More than 900 LCTs, in various forms, participated in the invasion of Normandy.

LCT 7074 is an amphibious assault ship for landing tanks, other vehicles and troops on beachheads. Built in 1944 by Hawthorn Leslie and Company, Hebburn, the Mark 3 LCT 7074 was part of the 17th LCT Flotilla during Operation Neptune in June 1944.

The LCT was the largest of all U.S. shipborne amphibious warfare craft and the smallest U.S. landing craft to receive numbers in their own right. LCTs were the result of a November 1941 British...

Navy called the LCT (landing craft, tank), was carried over oceanic distances and launched at the time of assault. The LCT was too large to fit the davit of a conventional transport, so a new type of ship, the LSD (landing ship, dock), was created specifically to carry it.…

The Mark 8 Landing Craft Tank (also referred to as the LCT (8) or LCT Mark VIII) were landing craft tank ships operated by the British Armed Forces. The vessels were based on an American design, but improved into ocean-going vessels capable of sailing to and operating in the Far East .