Interesting. You wouldn't think they'd bother to use a kedge anchor
with a small boat like the wooden LCVP, but Ambrose speaks at least a
few times of them doing this during the Normandy invasions. Or rather
not doing it and getting stuck on the beach under fire. But the photos
I've just looked at of LCVPs in WWII don't show any sort of anchoring
apparatus on the stern.
Two comments, which may be of interest:
First, the Higgins landing craft were fitted with a special rudder (called a
"monkey rudder" as I remember) which was placed forward of the prop. This was
so that they could steer as they backed off the beach in reverse.
Second, I worked for 5 years on a 33 foot landing craft in the arctic. We
always used a stern anchor when we beached, not so that we could pull
ourselves off but so that the waves would not push the stern onto the beach.
Once you were sideways to the waves they would push you up the beach and you
would be stuck until the tide rose.
Scott Welch
FirstClass Product Manager
www.firstclass.com
Those who make no mistakes rarely make anything.
"Faure, Marin" <marin.faure@boeing.com> writes:
>Interesting. You wouldn't think they'd bother to use a kedge anchor
>with a small boat like the wooden LCVP, but Ambrose speaks at least a
>few times of them doing this during the Normandy invasions. Or rather
>not doing it and getting stuck on the beach under fire. But the photos
>I've just looked at of LCVPs in WWII don't show any sort of anchoring
>apparatus on the stern.
Two comments, which may be of interest:
First, the Higgins landing craft were fitted with a special rudder (called a
"monkey rudder" as I remember) which was placed forward of the prop. This was
so that they could steer as they backed off the beach in reverse.
Second, I worked for 5 years on a 33 foot landing craft in the arctic. We
always used a stern anchor when we beached, not so that we could pull
ourselves off but so that the waves would not push the stern onto the beach.
Once you were sideways to the waves they would push you up the beach and you
would be stuck until the tide rose.
Scott Welch
FirstClass Product Manager
www.firstclass.com
Those who make no mistakes rarely make anything.
