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Looks to me like an LCT. I ran a search for LCT 845 and got the following:
Built by: Kansas City Structural Steel Co., Kansas City, Mo
Keel Laid: 3 June 44
Launched: 6 July 44
Delivered: 13 July 44
She was an LCT Mark VI:
* Displacement: 309 tons (landing)
* Length: 119'
* Beam: 32'
* Draft: 3'7" forward, 4' aft (landing)
* Speed: 8 knots
* Armament: 2 20mm
* Complement: 1 officer, 12 enlisted
* Capacity: 4 medium or 3 50-ton tanks; or 150 tons cargo; accomodations for 8 troops
* 3 Gray 225 hp diesels; triple screws
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Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940
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