Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "ARA La Argentina - Guide 328" video.

  1.  @WALTERBROADDUS  when I visited the LST museum ship in Muskegon, MI a few years ago, I had them start up the old Army training film on how the ship operates. As you said, first, schedule the landing on a rising tide. So. between the landing craft being lighter, after discharging it's cargo, plus the rising tide, they can back off. The LST was much more elaborate. They had ballast tanks that would be pumped out before hitting the beach, then refilled to plant the ship firmly on the beach for unloading. They also kept the engines going forward, to keep the ship forced onto the beach. After unloading, they pumped out the ballast tanks, started reeling in the kedging anchor they dropped on the way in, reversed the engines, and, with the rising tide, pulled themselves off the beach.
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