Last surviving D-Day landing craft, Landfall sinking in Wirral’s East float dock

Mar 10 2010 by Lorna Hughes, Heswall News

“Instead, she has been laid up in a Birkenhead dock for many years and has now sunk, which is outrageous.”

Mr Evans, 75, has written a book and also has a website on the history of the vessel. He is hoping a “Save The Landfall” campaign can be started to raise money for her restoration and berthing as a major tourist attraction.

Mr Evans said: “I was truly shocked by the news she was allowed to sink, particularly when one remembers the valiant men who crewed her and the soldiers who sailed in her, many of whom gave their lives that we might remain free.”

After being commissioned in 1944, Landfall was sent to join the invasion fleet.

In his ship’s log for D Day, Sub-lieutenant Philip Stephens wrote about the Landfall forming part of a “huge armada of ships” off the coast of Normandy, ready for the first assault.