Installing the Lobnitz floating pierheads

scheme of a floating dock "Lobnitz"

An artificial beach for LST docking

Collection document: Installing the Lobnitz floating pierheads

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Special frame for direct unloading of LST deck vehicles

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(details) (details) Further back a special frame laid on a dock allows the unloading of vehicles carried on deck on the LST, without having to desce

After the storm. Aside from a deformed bridge an artificial beach (Buffer Pontoon or BP) of self-elevating platform "Lobnitz", used for docking open-door LSTs

After the storm, the Lobnitz 404 and 401 in the centre, with the floating crane.The 408 is more left with only 1 pylone remaining

After the storm, the Lobnitz 404 and 401 in the centre, with the floating crane.The 408 is more left with only 1 remaining pylone The crew of the Lobnitz 408 "Chateau", d

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A floating dock associated with a bridge primer, with 5 tugs.

(details) This wharf is equipped with the special frame for unloading the upper decks of LST

(details) A first Lobnitz seems moored at the Pier Center — (details) A first Lobnitz seems to be moored at the Pier Center

(details) Lobnitz floating dock waiting to be set up

(details) Detail of floating dock — (details) Detail of a floating dock

(details) The front of the LST laid on the artificial beach (Buffer Pontoon or BP) — (details) The front of the LST on the artificial beach (Buffer Pontoon or BP)

(details) To the right the LST leaned on the artificial beach, at the bottom the special frame to serve its upper deck — (details) Right the LST leaning on the artificial beach, at the bottom the special frame to serve its upper deck

8 - Lobnitz self-lifting docks at the end of the West Bridge (2) and the Centre Bridge (1)

A Protestant religious service.The canoe on the right ("J boat") is in repair

The J boat "Madeline11" is ready to be put back in the water. It was a motorized lifeboat.

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A floating dock associated with a special dock (designated RCP on certain planes, for Reinforced Concrete Pontoon?) serving as an extension
(one of these docks was abandoned during the descent of Vierville and is still there)
(photo taken in Arromanches)

(details) One of these special docks used as an extension to Lobnitz

(details) 3 pre-assembled floating docks on Omaha Beach (details) 3 Lobnitz ready for commissioning (details) (details) — (details) 3 pre-assembled floating docks on Omaha Beach

In 1984, a dock that was attached to the "Lobnitz" self-elevating platforms. A second dock of this type (designated RCP on certain planes, for Reinforced Concrete Pontoon?) was on the low sea leash facing the Gambier house. It was taken away by the waste pickers around 1950.

1945, the 2 RCPs on the beach in front of Vierville Unloading of a kennel crane, using a large English floating crane — 1945, the 2 RCP on the beach in front of Vierville

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