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The Boats That Built Britain

Episode 6: World War Two Landing Craft

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Looking more like a skip than a boat, the LCVP, or Landing Craft Vehicle and Personnel, won't win any prizes for beauty. Yet the craft did more to win World War II than any other piece of machinery. There were once over 20,000 of these little boats, but only a handful remain. Sailor and writer Tom Cunliffe puts one of them through its paces and finds out how the boat was developed for one momentous day in 1944. Show less

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