Preserved LCA?

[Pete Ashby]

As a child my parents had a weekend caravan by the Thames near Henley.

One summer a bloke moored this big flat fronted thing up near to us and proceeded to build a house boat out of it. My Dad and I used to go and talk to the bloke. My Dad recognised that it was an LCA and the bloke told us he had bought four of them from a yard in Essex and was converting them all to houseboats. Then one morning he was gone and so was the LCA no pictures I'm afraid this sort of thing was not thought unusual in 1963.

There was one that was part sunk in a creek near to Pounds scrap yard Portsmouth in the late 1970’s and 80’s you could see it from the road. But the area has been redeveloped and it must have gone to the big scrap man in the sky.

Sad really when you consider the important role these small craft played in WW11

Pete