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This is a list of named Mark 8 Landing Craft Tank operated the Royal Navy.

Pennant Number	Name	Notes
L4001	HMS Redoubt	L4001 was also applied to the new HMAV Ardennes (LCL) commissioned in 1977.
L4037	HMS Rampart	This vessel had enlarged bow doors.^{[citation needed]}
L4038	HMS Citadel	At Malta at the start withdrawal from Suez in 1956.^{[citation needed]}
L4039	HMS Parapet
L4040	HMS Bastion
L4043	HMS Counterguard
L4044	HMS Portcullis
L4063	HMS Jawada
L4064	HMS Sallyport
L4099	HMS Buttress

These Mark 8 Landing Craft Tank were operated by the Royal Navy but appear to have been un-named and decommissioned prior to 1960.

Here is a list of British Army Mark 8 Landing Craft Tank operated by the RASC/RCT 1945-1979.

Pennant Number	Name	Notes
L4002	HMAV Agheila	This was probably the last Mark 8 LCT to be decommissioned from the Army Fleet.
L4037	HMAV Akyab	Ex-HMS Rampart.
L4041	HMAV Abbeville
L4061	HMAV Audemer	This ship's bridge and super-structure was modified sometime in the 1960s in order to be the "flagship" of 20 Maritime Regiment RCT.
L4062	HMAV Aachen
L4073	HMAV Ardennes	The new HMAV Ardennes (LCL) commissioned c.1977 was given Pennant Number L4001 (The original L4073 was sailed to Singapore in 1960 and delivered to the Malaysian Forces) The story of the rescue of L4073 off St Kilda is presumed to be the inspiration for the Hammond Innes novel "Atlantic Fury".^{[citation needed]}
L4074	HMAV Antwerp
L4085	HMAV Agedabia
L4086	HMAV Arromanches
L4097	HMAV Andalnes
L4164	HMAV Arakan	The new HMAV Arakan (LCL) commissioned c.1978 was given Pennant Number L4003.
L4182	HMAV Arezzo

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 | row 2, cell 1 align=center|L4037
 | row 2, cell 2 align=center|HMS Rampart
-| row 2, cell 3 align=center|This vessel had enlarged bow doors.{{Fact|date=March 2009}}- why and when - I know not.
+| row 2, cell 3 align=center|This vessel had enlarged bow doors.{{Fact|date=March 2009}}
 |-
 | row 3, cell 1 align=center|L4038
 | row 3, cell 2 align=center|HMS Citadel
-| row 3, cell 3 align=center|At Malta at the start withdrawal from Suez in 1956.{{Fact|date=March 2009}}- I do not know if she was ever deployed for that operation.
+| row 3, cell 3 align=center|At Malta at the start withdrawal from Suez in 1956.{{Fact|date=March 2009}}
 |-
 | row 4, cell 1 align=center|L4039
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 | row 10, cell 1 align=center|L4099
 | row 10, cell 2 align=center|HMS Buttress
-| row 10, cell 3 align=center|When HMS Buttress went alongside HMS Theseus, she lost her mast when it struck a sponson. (Suez)
+| row 10, cell 3 align=center|
 |}
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 | row 10, cell 1 align=center|L4097
 | row 10, cell 2 align=center|HMAV Andalnes
-| row 10, cell 3 align=center|I last saw this ship decommissioned and alongside at Gun Wharf in 1977. Someone had stolen the ship's bell!
+| row 10, cell 3 align=center|
 |-
 | row 11, cell 1 align=center|L4164