Barges, Lighters and FCBs
Barges, lighters and Ferro Concrte Barges (FCBs) can be confused one with another.
LBK6 – Landing Barge Kitchen at Harwich
The fighting men who landed on D-Day needed to be fed so ten Landing Barge Kitchen (LBK) were built for the task. These were adapted from steel Thames Lighters by fitting two petrol engines and building the kitchen on the lighter. Crossing from Langstone Harbour to Sword Beach on D-Day, with the 35th LB Flotilla, …
Woolverstone, D-Day at 80 Exhibition
On 6 June 1944, Allied troops landed on the Normandy beaches and the battle to liberate Europe began. 80 years on since D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare, we remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice in defence of our freedom. The small village of Woolverstone had a vital part to play in these tumultuous times.
Muck and Straw Barges at Waldringfield
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, London was the largest city in the world and road transport was powered by horse: fifty-thousand horses were required just to keep Victorian London’s public transport running, another ten thousand horses for hansom cabs, and countless more to substitute for white vans made around 300,000 horses producing, say, …
D-Day Deception Fleet – Deben
Dummy Landing Craft were built at Waldringfield and moored on the Deben before D-Day to deceive the Nazis. These were probably the largest craft ever to be in the river.
Medusa Buoy, HMS Medusa, Medusa Channel and Lord Nelson
1801 Nelson in HMS Medusa with Capt. Gore is guided by Spence to scrape out to sea.