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made smoke nobody complained.” The LBK was meant to be a floating kitchen. Chimneys, with square cowls on them, rose up from all parts of the vessel.

Gordon Holman, referring to the Landing Barge, Kitchen as an LCK, described it as having "the appearance of a houseboat which somebody had attempted to turn into a factory. These landing barges were not intended for the initial assault, but to support the following build-up. Thames lighters were known for their shallow draft and hold capacity, and they were soon fitted with some modest armour protection, engines, and ramps. Thames lighters were drafted into service to supplement the purpose-built landing craft. The landing craft construction programme in Britain was incapable of providing sufficient craft so quickly, and US production had not yet come into full swing. In early 1942, the Royal Navy found itself in need of much greater landing capacity in order to provide lift for the Allied 19 invasion plans Round Up and Sledgehammer. The kitchen capacity was able to provide 1,600 hot meals and 800 cold meals a day. Constructed of steel, this shallow-draft lighter had storage and serving space to feed 900 men for one week. Its primary purpose was to provide hot meals to the crews of the many minor landing craft not fitted with galley facilities. The Landing Barge, Kitchen or LBK was a landing craft used to support amphibious landings in North Western Europe during and after the Normandy invasion in the Second World War. Most statistics from US Navy ONI 226 Allied Landing Craft and Ships, US Government Printing Office, 1944 Storage and serving space for enough provisions to feed 900 men for one weekĢ½ inch "Plastic" to diesel fuel tanks, engines, and steering shelter A Landing Barge, Kitchen amid LCVs and LCM(3)s during the Invasion of Normandy, 1944.