LCI(L) 250

 

Landing Craft Infantry - Large

 

 

Soldiers boarding LCI(L) 250

Courtesy of Dave Shirlaw, RCN News Magazine 

 

Laid down: 14 Sep 1942

Launched: 18 Oct 1942

Transferred to RCN: 29 Jan 1944

Paid off: 31 Aug 1944

Fate: Unknown

 

LCI(L) 250 was built in the USA and transferred to the RN on completion. She was transferred to the RCN on 29 Jan 1944. Paid off on 31 Aug 1944, she was returned to the RN and then on 27 Mar 1945 she was returned to the USN.

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

Lt Hugh McColl Harrison, RCNVR (was CO on 06 Jun 1944 for D-Day Landings)

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

Jeffrey, Phillip F.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

Crew members of landing craft LCI(L) 250 signed this White Ensign (bottom left) and used it to record details of their home ports and operations. Part of the Canadian 262nd Flotilla, LCI(L) 250 was based in a variety of English ports (top right). On D-Day, it landed members of the Highland Light Infantry of Canada on the beach at St. Aubin, striking a German mine in the process. In June, July, and August, 250 transported British and American troops to locations in Normandy.

 

 Source: Canadian War Museum CWM 20050060-001

Courtesy of the Canadian War Museum

 

 

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