Recruiting crews for the landing-craft flotillas

Was it difficult to recruit enough landing-craft crews?

Not especially: wartime service supplied manpower, and the autonomy and intimacy of small crews appealed to a distinct type of sailor.

Personnel supply was less restrictive than might be assumed. Landing craft offered very small crews and less anonymity than a destroyer or larger ship, attracting sailors suited to close-knit service. On the smallest craft, six or seven people could work together without the pronounced officer-and-crew divide of a large warship, while even a crew of about thirty remained intimate by naval standards. National service supplied the manpower pool, and the character of the work helped match people to the flotillas.