Modern versions of landing craft are very popular in Alaska. They can be used to place vehicles and motorized equipment on gravel and sand beaches where no wharf is available.
Steven Ambrose told a great story about D-Day -- one soldier had some experience at sea (a commercial fisherman, I think), who got into a landing craft headed for the beach: basically driving a brick rolling side to side, through the English Channel. After a few minutes of puking over the side, he turned and shouted up to the Navy man steering it: "Tell that Higgins son of a bitch he ain't got NOTHING to be proud of."
They were also up against German obstructions in the waters near the beaches of D-Day , crossed steel beams ,concrete .I heard that many craft had to unload in water 5-6 feet deep. The person I talked to said he held his breath and kept walking till his head broke the surface ,but many people drowned ,on top of the fierce fire coming at them
To Lee B: if I may you should check your source; the British L.C.A. has never been D-Day's standard landing craft, at least in term of number used. If I'm correct on June 6, 1944 some 1,100 LCVP's were used on the 5 landing beaches in Normandy, to be compared with 450 approx. British LCA'S. Knowing that the British also used a substantial number of American VP's in their landing waves on Gold, Juno & Sword beaches.
The Higgins boat were not the standard assault craft used on D Day the majority were the British Thorneycroft LCA (2000 in total being built) And were used on all the beaches including Pont Du Hoc, Utah and Omaha as well as the Canadian and British sectors 800 in total
That is actually the state slogan of Tasmania during "these difficult times". Isolating themselves from the Australian continent has kept them disease free and allowed them to lead an almost normal life.
When you see these shore emplacements...You have to marvel at how underutilized the strategic bombing forces and the Royal Navy were. 2000 heavy bombers and dozens of battleships should have turned these landing areas into a moonscape devoid of all life before the landings occurred.
bunkers are very hard targets to destroy, they absolutely used air and sea bombardment to target the installations, but there's only so much you can do against a building specially designed to endure bombardment
Oh they did. Youd be amazed by how many ships were behind the infantry on D-Day. Seven battleships were along the coast, bombarding the fortifications, along with 25 cruisers(5 heavy and 20 light). They also had the support of 139 destroyers, and two monitors.
Thank you. I looked at this film, I've tried to find the classic film of British troops first D-Day landing which shows the differing nature of the two landing craft. Alas, I can't find what I want. This is a very poor programme, did this "Expert" on vessels know even less than I do?
I think it’s a matter of what he could get his hands on to film with. I’d imagine the British ones are a bit rarer with there limited and recently ravaged industry during that period.
Maybe because only 2000 of the British LCA's were made while 23,000 of the American designed LCP's were produced. The LCP's had a bigger impact on Britain's future.
When they landed on the beach, as soon as the door dropped, they would be met with a volley of machinegun fire. Allied troops would jump over the sides of the boat in order to avoid getting shot.
I cannot understand why they didnt use smoke cover for the landings. These boxes became death traps for many, they were immediately wiped out by the MGs after they dropped the ramps.
True but it wasn't a case of preference it was more a case of being more familiar with the LCA due to joint training and exercises with British Commandos in Scotland and Ireland. It doesn't end there either as the Rangers LCA's were also mainly crewed by RN personnel.
@@melvillesperryn9268 That is true however you have to balance that with the fact that the LCA was much more awkward to disembark from. It was the Americans due to experience gained though countless operations in the Pacific who led the way in the theatre of amphibious operations
Britannia Savoirs list - short form LCVP the boat that saved Britain Spitfire the plane that saved Britain Hurricane the other plane that saved Britain Lancaster the other other plane that saved Britain Mosquito the other other other plane that saved Britain Churchill the man that saved Britain RV Jones the other man that saved Britain Dunkirk the evacuation that saved Britain Battle of Britain the fight that saved Britain --- make your own Britannia Savoirs list
think you're ignoring the LST...Churchill was reported to have said "Apparently victory depends on something called an LST"...that was a British design prompted by Dunkirk...but the LCVP did enable you to get in and out fast...
@@spockspock probably :/ but oldsoldiers who I've met said with their extra protection they were a Godsend, and I've heard similar things said by GI's that used them, it just seems sad that when we had our own version battle designed and hardened fom Norway down, on the other hand the american boat was very good just unlike ours it was armourd, pity we dont extol it :)
peter forden i have no doubt any added protection would have been appreciated greatly by those who were placed in harm’s way. I find modern analogies in quantity over quality, US Marines and British Army planning on doing without MBTs due to the technological threats now arrayed to defeat big armor.
@@spockspock despite the fact that tank hs a fear factor that outweighs even that of a screaming tommy charging at you with a bayonet belly high..duing the British policing of Iraq after the last war a 6 man patrol ran out of ammo and did what theyd been taught...the Bayonet, its effectiveness resulted in 40 dead insurgents and 6 live Tommies, those same 40 would never have dared take on a challenger, but hey! what are soldiers lives to a politician? perhaps the gutted iraqispiled on their doorsteps would make a better argument, talk is cheap...weapons and peace are not.
or fill it full of babes...imagine that hitting the beach!...kinda' funny when the Marines hit the beach at Da Nang, only to be greeted by locals handing out flowers...
My Dad served in the RCN and RN. He piloted one of those 20,000 LCVP's on Gold Beach making 16 runs between the transport ship and the shore on D-Day. He also saw duty onboard an LST making landings in Sicily and North Africa as well as France. All ships too ugly to bear the name of anyplace or anyone who was reputable.
Just like the brits to talk about an American boat like they did anything but put them together and use them a couple times. It doesn't even use a British engine. Detroit is an American company. "OUR BRITISH HANDS ASSEMBLED THESE FROM THE PARTS WE GOT FROM BIG DADDY AMERICA"
God bless the United States! American designed landing craft. Americans running out guns a blazing on D day. God bless all the men from all the nations who stopped that horror!
While the importance of the LCVP Higgins boat is undeniable in history is seems a very poor choice for a series on “The boats that built Britain”. The survival of the UK wasn’t predicated on a successful invasion for one. And the series doesn’t seem as it’s going to focus on other warships that truly did play a pivotal role. Like the convoy escorts for example. The video is very very well done certainly. And as I noted the importance of the Higgins boat is undeniable. But a boat that built Britain? No.
@@fernandopratesi5378 well they were getting bombed and rocketed right up to near the end of the war...so putting an army ashore was the only way to put an end to that..
Brute Krulak had photographed a similar Japanese landing craft prior to the war for intel and found it later filed away with a comment “sent by some crackpot out in China”. 😂
True; LT Victor H. Kurlak USN took the photograph of a Dai-Hatsu 14 M type landing craft at Shanghai in 1937 while observing Japanese Landing Observations (the reference book is "Across the Reef" by Victor J. Croizat; ISBN 0-7137-1894-3). Higgins was shown the photograph in April 1941 by MAG Linsert (USMC?) Secretary of the Equipment Board. So the original idea or concept of the bow ramp was not Mr. Higgins', but his willingness to except it as an innovation, do the work to re-engineer his design, and come back in short order with a new improved version 8 or 7 months before Pearl Harbour is kind of one of those small facts lost or burried in the history of WWII. Especially when you know it was the Japanese landing craft with a front bow ramp that was the inspriation or answer to getting men on the beach. This one solution would be applied to the larger craft to follow.
Took the fight to enemy, but built britain!!!! I very much doubt it...... That should be changed...and to rub insult to injury you show a bloody yankee craft instead of thornycroft... Utter nonsence...
Modern versions of landing craft are very popular in Alaska. They can be used to place vehicles and motorized equipment on gravel and sand beaches where no wharf is available.
Mhm see them all over Seward and homer
I thought this was a BBC documentary - it's that good !!! blew me away
I was in one of them when we attacked the beach at an island in Prince Willian sound Alaska. After the Valdez oilspill.
in my town a lot of people arrive at the ball park and football stadium by boat...would seem perfect for depositing a bunch of drunks onshore...
Amusing to see the expressions of the people on the shore.
Saw a WWII landing craft laying on a beach the first time I went to the Philippines back in 1989 it was covered in bullet holes
Steven Ambrose told a great story about D-Day -- one soldier had some experience at sea (a commercial fisherman, I think), who got into a landing craft headed for the beach: basically driving a brick rolling side to side, through the English Channel. After a few minutes of puking over the side, he turned and shouted up to the Navy man steering it: "Tell that Higgins son of a bitch he ain't got NOTHING to be proud of."
World record "Fastest Skip on water"
They were also up against German obstructions in the waters near the beaches of D-Day , crossed steel beams ,concrete .I heard that many craft had to unload in water 5-6 feet deep. The person I talked to said he held his breath and kept walking till his head broke the surface ,but many people drowned ,on top of the fierce fire coming at them
The stern of that dumbstercraft sure as hell has little freeboard!!!
they would later add armor and double the guns...those guys were pretty exposed...check out the movie "Away All Boats"...free on here......
Torch, 42, Guadalcanal campaign 42, New Guinea campaign 43, Tarawa 43, Italian campaigh 43 [Sicialy] marianas 44, marshalls 44, Normandy 44, Toulon 44, Phillipenes 44 Iwo Jima 45, Okinawa 45....Quite a list.
Quite fascinating.
To Lee B: if I may you should check your source; the British L.C.A. has never been D-Day's standard landing craft, at least in term of number used. If I'm correct on June 6, 1944 some 1,100 LCVP's were used on the 5 landing beaches in Normandy, to be compared with 450 approx. British LCA'S. Knowing that the British also used a substantial number of American VP's in their landing waves on Gold, Juno & Sword beaches.
The dumpster company got a massive free advert.
There is one for sale here in Illinois
I saw it on marketplace when I was looking for Jeep parts
Is there a link?
@@General_Eisenhower1945 id have to dick around on marketplace to find it
I was just searching 'WW2' in Illinois
Hey @Aquaholic you need to do more Skip reviews...
The Higgins boat were not the standard assault craft used on D Day the majority were the British Thorneycroft LCA (2000 in total being built)
And were used on all the beaches including Pont Du Hoc, Utah and Omaha as well as the Canadian and British sectors 800 in total
Thornycroft
Higgins Boat 22000+ built
LCA 2000 built
Britain: "We have a moat and we're not afraid to use it!"
It doesn't serm to be working very well at the moment. Ask Nigel F (he who must not be named).
That is actually the state slogan of Tasmania during "these difficult times". Isolating themselves from the Australian continent has kept them disease free and allowed them to lead an almost normal life.
Very useful.
The Courtney's of Stehekin had one to bring horses and hay to their ranch.
The box stays fairly stable when tipped sideways, is because it adapts to a V shape.
So, a dumpster makes a a decent landing craft.
When you see these shore emplacements...You have to marvel at how underutilized the strategic bombing forces and the Royal Navy were. 2000 heavy bombers and dozens of battleships should have turned these landing areas into a moonscape devoid of all life before the landings occurred.
bunkers are very hard targets to destroy, they absolutely used air and sea bombardment to target the installations, but there's only so much you can do against a building specially designed to endure bombardment
Bunkers are designed to withstand such a thing, they learned their lesson from the 1910s.
Oh they did. Youd be amazed by how many ships were behind the infantry on D-Day.
Seven battleships were along the coast, bombarding the fortifications, along with 25 cruisers(5 heavy and 20 light). They also had the support of 139 destroyers, and two monitors.
Could you imagine you just at the marina and you see a trash bin floating with people in it like what are you even say at that point
I'm surprised he didn't look at the British version of the Landing craft because only the Americans used the LCPs
Thank you. I looked at this film, I've tried to find the classic film of British troops first D-Day landing which shows the differing nature of the two landing craft. Alas, I can't find what I want. This is a very poor programme, did this "Expert" on vessels know even less than I do?
I think it’s a matter of what he could get his hands on to film with. I’d imagine the British ones are a bit rarer with there limited and recently ravaged industry during that period.
Maybe because only 2000 of the British LCA's were made while 23,000 of the American designed LCP's were produced. The LCP's had a bigger impact on Britain's future.
@Allen Casey I think this is a good explanation, also the British used LCPs as well there is a British lcp driver in part 2
@@CarburetorThompson perfect delivery system for the little Bren gun carrier....
I can tell you something else that saved Britain. America, whether you want to accept that or not is up to you.
poor taste, former paratrooper.
When they landed on the beach, as soon as the door dropped, they would be met with a volley of machinegun fire.
Allied troops would jump over the sides of the boat in order to avoid getting shot.
I cannot understand why they didnt use smoke cover for the landings. These boxes became death traps for many, they were immediately wiped out by the MGs after they dropped the ramps.
because the idea of the death trap came mostly from the US landing at Omaha, where everything that could go wrong, did go wrong.
the MG-42 was a nasty piece of work when pre-sighted...you were a sitting duck when that ramp dropped...
Engine is Detroit diesel 6-71 ( 6 cly, 71 cu.in./cyl.) 165hp.
That an FJ12 Tom? Great stuff!
What about the LCA - the US Rangers preferred it to the Higgins boat
True but it wasn't a case of preference it was more a case of being more familiar with the LCA due to joint training and exercises with British Commandos in Scotland and Ireland. It doesn't end there either as the Rangers LCA's were also mainly crewed by RN personnel.
@@stephenchappell7512 I think the armour plating on the LCA was a big factor
@@melvillesperryn9268 That is true however you have to balance that with the fact that the LCA was much more awkward to disembark from.
It was the Americans due to experience gained though countless operations in the Pacific who led the way in the theatre of amphibious operations
Rangers were trained by British commandos....partial to their equipment and tactics...
An FJ1200 3CX. I've got one of those
His moustache is reassuring.
Point of Information, Powered by a gray marine diesel 671 cubic inch cylinder, low block, 671 detroits were the high block modern version post WW2
Every boat at Dunkirk: am i a joke to you
Britannia Savoirs list - short form
LCVP the boat that saved Britain
Spitfire the plane that saved Britain
Hurricane the other plane that saved Britain
Lancaster the other other plane that saved Britain
Mosquito the other other other plane that saved Britain
Churchill the man that saved Britain
RV Jones the other man that saved Britain
Dunkirk the evacuation that saved Britain
Battle of Britain the fight that saved Britain
--- make your own Britannia Savoirs list
think you're ignoring the LST...Churchill was reported to have said "Apparently victory depends on something called an LST"...that was a British design prompted by Dunkirk...but the LCVP did enable you to get in and out fast...
@@frankpienkosky5688 My father was an Able Seaman on HMS Danae on D Day. He manned LST 3019. His sister told me in old age that it carried tanks?
The Normans came over in these.
....how many horses can it carry?.....
Flat bottom barge can carry lots of weight
how come noone talks about the armoured british landing craft, just this american made of plywood?
Sheer weight of numbers?
@@spockspock probably :/ but oldsoldiers who I've met said with their extra protection they were a Godsend, and I've heard similar things said by GI's that used them, it just seems sad that when we had our own version battle designed and hardened fom Norway down, on the other hand the american boat was very good just unlike ours it was armourd, pity we dont extol it :)
peter forden i have no doubt any added protection would have been appreciated greatly by those who were placed in harm’s way. I find modern analogies in quantity over quality, US Marines and British Army planning on doing without MBTs due to the technological threats now arrayed to defeat big armor.
@@spockspock despite the fact that tank hs a fear factor that outweighs even that of a screaming tommy charging at you with a bayonet belly high..duing the British policing of Iraq after the last war a 6 man patrol ran out of ammo and did what theyd been taught...the Bayonet, its effectiveness resulted in 40 dead insurgents and 6 live Tommies, those same 40 would never have dared take on a challenger, but hey! what are soldiers lives to a politician? perhaps the gutted iraqispiled on their doorsteps would make a better argument, talk is cheap...weapons and peace are not.
What annoys me is the show is called "the boats that built Britain" but it's about an American boat and ignores the actual British LCA.
Plz ...I love taking a break n watch BOAT YARD...that floating kitchen ? ? ? Next...Gravy Boat
😂 thats skip.. awesome
You just gotta take that to a beach and capture the life guard tower
or fill it full of babes...imagine that hitting the beach!...kinda' funny when the Marines hit the beach at Da Nang, only to be greeted by locals handing out flowers...
Dumpster Regatta!
My Dad served in the RCN and RN. He piloted one of those 20,000 LCVP's on Gold Beach making 16 runs between the transport ship and the shore on D-Day. He also saw duty onboard an LST making landings in Sicily and North Africa as well as France. All ships too ugly to bear the name of anyplace or anyone who was reputable.
How can people give this a thumbs down ? entitled Millennials who cant appreciate duty or commitment ?
It's that the video is really when British troops landed at their beach heads they used British made LCAs not the American one.
Why!!, the thumbnail for one, second it aint even thornycroft, enough said...
I don’t understand this design where the gate opens in front and the allies are sitting ducks
Ah yes the proud British naval tradition of going somewhere and saying "Mine"
And the world was generally better for it.
Ah yes, and of course no one ever crossed the nasty North Sea to invade the isles, eh? :)
Just like the brits to talk about an American boat like they did anything but put them together and use them a couple times. It doesn't even use a British engine. Detroit is an American company. "OUR BRITISH HANDS ASSEMBLED THESE FROM THE PARTS WE GOT FROM BIG DADDY AMERICA"
The brits scream loud about being able to defend an island's home territory from a logistic and range limited Luftwaffe.
@@Chilly_Billy British colonies generally tended to fare better when it came time for self-rule...
landingcraft loading 10 tractor or 80mt cpo
One German just watched this video... 😉👎
B the end of Battle of Britain as the German soldiers turn in the life jackets 😂
this ship can carry the tank
God bless the United States! American designed landing craft. Americans running out guns a blazing on D day. God bless all the men from all the nations who stopped that horror!
Only to have to fight that here and now. We dodged a bullet, but gotta stay viligent.
@@trythinking6676 any country that's an island better damn well have a navy....
Would you like a spot of teaaaaaaa?
Did the skip company find out about this? 😂
While the importance of the LCVP Higgins boat is undeniable in history is seems a very poor choice for a series on “The boats that built Britain”. The survival of the UK wasn’t predicated on a successful invasion for one. And the series doesn’t seem as it’s going to focus on other warships that truly did play a pivotal role. Like the convoy escorts for example. The video is very very well done certainly. And as I noted the importance of the Higgins boat is undeniable. But a boat that built Britain?
No.
Agree , about 2000 Landing Craft Assault (LCA) were built in the UK, a better subject for boats of Britain.
Some have argued that the survival of Britain did indeed depend on a successful invasion. I’m a complete amateur though - any experts out there??
@@fernandopratesi5378 No expert but I'm sure the Battle of Britain secured our sovereignty against the nazi war machine.
Jet Driver and those British built concrete piers and breakwaters!!!!!!
@@fernandopratesi5378 well they were getting bombed and rocketed right up to near the end of the war...so putting an army ashore was the only way to put an end to that..
More like 'The Boats that defended Britain'
Brute Krulak had photographed a similar Japanese landing craft prior to the war for intel and found it later filed away with a comment “sent by some crackpot out in China”. 😂
True; LT Victor H. Kurlak USN took the photograph of a Dai-Hatsu 14 M type landing craft at Shanghai in 1937 while observing Japanese Landing Observations (the reference book is "Across the Reef" by Victor J. Croizat; ISBN 0-7137-1894-3). Higgins was shown the photograph in April 1941 by MAG Linsert (USMC?) Secretary of the Equipment Board. So the original idea or concept of the bow ramp was not Mr. Higgins', but his willingness to except it as an innovation, do the work to re-engineer his design, and come back in short order with a new improved version 8 or 7 months before Pearl Harbour is kind of one of those small facts lost or burried in the history of WWII. Especially when you know it was the Japanese landing craft with a front bow ramp that was the inspriation or answer to getting men on the beach. This one solution would be applied to the larger craft to follow.
Marines didn't have these at Guadalcanal...but the Army did..."The Thin Red Line"....
Took the fight to enemy, but built britain!!!! I very much doubt it...... That should be changed...and to rub insult to injury you show a bloody yankee craft instead of thornycroft... Utter nonsence...
Built Britain lol ! Hmm I think saved Britain would be more accurate
their showing difference in hull is kind of disaster