Landing-craft history poses a source problem because broad accounts of amphibious warfare often pass quickly over the craft themselves. This discussion draws on a specialist volume written by the engineers who designed and built them. Stanley Goodall, the Director of Naval Construction, chaired the technical paper behind the book. That engineering perspective keeps attention on payload, hull form, production, and modification instead of treating every landing craft as an interchangeable transport.
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Reading landing-craft history through its engineers
Engineers' own accounts, including work chaired by Director of Naval Construction Stanley Goodall, explain how landing craft were designed and built.