A FORK-LIFT VEHICLE, loaded with heavy stores, is driven up the ramp of a new British ramped powered lighter (R.P.L.) during an Army demonstration in Southampton. The craft, 72ft long and weighing 55 tons, can carry a 50-ton tank or other armoured vehicle, or four loaded three-ton trucks, and has a speed of about nine knots. Some of these new lighters will soon be sent to Singapore, where they will be operated by the 10th Port Squadron.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29637, 6 October 1961, Page 6
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77A FORK-LIFT VEHICLE, loaded with heavy stores, is driven up the ramp of a new British ramped powered lighter (R.P.L.) during an Army demonstration in Southampton. The craft, 72ft long and weighing 55 tons, can carry a 50-ton tank or other armoured vehicle, or four loaded three-ton trucks, and has a speed of about nine knots. Some of these new lighters will soon be sent to Singapore, where they will be operated by the 10th Port Squadron. Press, Volume C, Issue 29637, 6 October 1961, Page 6
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