Architect helps last surviving D-Day craft make dramatic final landing

By Tom Lowe2021-01-28T07:00:00

Source: Peter Langdown

Craft was salvaged from the docks in Birkenhead in 2014

Heritage specialist Pritchard Architecture has unveiled images of a new visitor attraction in Portsmouth housing the sole surviving landing craft from the D-Day landings during the Second World War.

The local practice’s project in the city’s Southsea district consists of a sweeping cantilevered canopy covering the LCT 7074 landing craft, the last of 800 similar vessels deployed on the shores of Normandy in June 1944.

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