by Ian Buxton » Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:55 pm
I am very dubious about her being ex LCT.1120. I have her as ex LCT.399, which became LCT(E).399 in 1945, then NSC(E).120 a naval servicing craft for LCTs, then MRC.1120 (maintenance and repair craft) then TOPMAST 20 etc. Someone has put 2 and 2 together and made 5, by assuming MRC numbers were the original LCT numbers. Not so, a more complex transition as above. 399 was a LCT Mark 3 which were more robust than the Mark 4 (LCT.1120) so lent themselves better to postwar conversions. QED.