0 a small boat with a flat bottom that opens at one end and is used to take soldiers and their equipment from a ship onto land controlled by enemy forces --
I will not give it him about landing craft tonight.
The mark 10 landing craft utility is due to come into service in future and is currently in trials.
Ships had to be prepared, aircraft chartered and landing craft reconditioned.
If many troops go to a trouble spot and disembark from a landing craft or troopship, conditions may not be improved.
Thirdly, there were the special boat sections; and, fourthly, the provision of minor landing craft.
It provided the whole of the commando force and manned all the landing craft.
I wonder whether sufficient importance has been attached to the building of these landing craft.
They can carry up to 650 troops, a range of vehicles, including tanks, and eight landing craft.
