HMS Durban
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HMS Durban was a Danae-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy. She was launched from the yards of Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on 29 May 1919 and commissioned on 1 November 1921.
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HMS Durban and HNLMS Sumatra (foreground) half-sunk amid a line of block ships, 9 June 1944
Mulberry harbours
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The Mulberry harbours were two temporary portable harbours developed by the British Admiralty and War Office during the Second World War to facilitate the rapid offloading of cargo onto beaches during
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…she once again returned to Britain to be paid off into the reserve. She was then one of the ships selected to be scuttled to form a breakwater for the Mulberry harbours that would be used to support the Battle of Normandy. Subsequently, on 9 June 1944 Durban was scuttled to form part of the Gooseberry 5 breakwater for…
View of the Mulberry B harbour "Port Winston" at Arromanches in September 1944. Centre and left are "spud" pierheads with floating piers of "whales" and "beetles". At right is 2,000 ft (610 m) of "Swiss roll".
Phoenix caissons under construction in Southampton in 1944
Aerial view of Mulberry harbour "B" at Arromanches-les-Bains in Normandy (October 27, 1944)
The remains of the harbour off Arromanches in 1990