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LcvpThe Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel (LCVP) or Higgins boat was a landing craft used extensively in World War Two. The craft was designed by Andrew Higgins of Louisiana, based on boats made for operating in swamps and marshes. More than 20,000 were built, by Higgins Industries and licensees. Constructed from plywood, this shallow-draft, barge-like boat could ferry a platoon-sized complement of 36 men to shore at 12 mph. Men generally entered the boat by climbing down a cargo net hung from the side of their troop transport; they exited by charging down the boat's bow ramp. - Displacement: 18,000 lbs. (light)
- Length: 36 ft 3 in (11.0 m)
- Beam: 10 ft 10 in (3.3 m)
- Draft: 3 ft aft, 2 ft 2 in forward (0.9, 0.8 m)
- Speed: 9 knots
- Armament: 2 × .30-cal machine guns
- Complement: 3
- Capacity: 36 troops or 6,000 lb. vehicle or 8,100 lb. general cargo
- 225 hp. Diesel (gray) or 250 hp. gasoline (Hall-Scott) engines
- "Andrew Higgins ... is the man who won the war for us. ... If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole strategy of the war would have been different." — General Dwight Eisenhower
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