Thanks for resolving this, Recovery arrived between April and September 1991. I is interesting to see the hull of a landing craft from this angle.

I am very dubious about her being ex LCT.1120. I have her as ex LCT.399, which became LCT(E).399 in 1945, then NSC(E).120 a naval servicing craft for LCTs, then MRC.1120 (maintenance and repair craft) then TOPMAST 20 etc. Someone has put 2 and 2 together and made 5, by assuming MRC numbers were the original LCT numbers. Not so, a more complex transition as above. 399 was a LCT Mark 3 which were more robust than the Mark 4 (LCT.1120) so lent themselves better to postwar conversions. QED.

Thanks Ian, we have her as 399 in the new Clyde database, no doubt on your good advice, together with Patrick's photo.

http://www.clydeships.co.uk/view.php?ye ... el=LCT.399

Was SEAFORTH B ex WALRUS?

Yes she was, see Teesman's other post at the same time:

viewtopic.php?f=89&t=5646

Sorry to spoil the party.
Seaforth A was ex Walrus. Remember A as in wAlrus.
Seaforth B was ex Oberon. Remember B as in oBeron.
The 2 are quite distinctively different provided you can see the port quarter of A ex Walrus.
Just aft of the port exhaust is a ridge in the side of the casing, this making Walrus totally unique amongst all the ex RN Porpoise and Oberon class boats, she being the only one with a particular towed array. Old boat of mine, don't ya know.