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Landing craft are small and medium seagoing watercraft, such as boats and barges, used to convey a landing force (infantry and vehicles) from the sea to the shore during an amphibious assault. The term excludes landing ships, which are larger.
During World War II, Allied forces employed a variety of landing craft —relatively small naval vessels used primarily to deploy troops, equipment, vehicles, and supplies from ship to shore for offensive operations.
The Landing Craft Personnel (Large) or LCP (L) was a landing craft used extensively in the Second World War. Its primary purpose was to ferry troops from transport ships to attack enemy-held shores. The craft derived from a prototype designed by the Eureka Tug-Boat Company of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Manufactured initially in boatyards in ...
The landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively by the Allied forces in amphibious landings in World War II. Typically constructed from plywood, this shallow-draft, barge-like boat could ferry a roughly platoon -sized complement of 36 men to shore at 12 knots (14 mph; 22 km/h).
All U.S. Navy Landing Craft of World War II, listed by type and class, with descriptions and links to individual pages.
Landing craft, small naval vessel used primarily to transport and tactically deploy soldiers, equipment, vehicles, and supplies from ship to shore for the conduct of offensive military operations. During World War II the British and Americans mass-produced landing craft, modifying them throughout.
For this operation, the Allied forces included a mix of landing craft. These ranged from the small Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP) and Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) to move men ashore to the larger Landing Craft Tank (LCT) capable of moving tanks, trucks, and armored vehicles ashore.
