The Landing Craft Committee carried amphibious ideas forward from the 1920s until 1938, but responsibility was divided. In broad terms, the Army wanted to set requirements while expecting the Navy to fund vessels used to put soldiers ashore. The Navy wanted the Army to pay at least half the cost and insisted on a voice in the specification. Individual officers sometimes reversed these institutional positions. Surviving minutes can also reflect ideas inherited from earlier meetings whose participants had changed, making membership and postings essential to interpreting the committee's work.
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The Landing Craft Committee and the inter-service funding dispute
Interwar landing-craft development was slowed by disagreement over whether the Army or Royal Navy should define requirements and pay for the boats.