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
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
Arromanches-les-Bains
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Arromanches-les-Bains is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
Mulberry harbours
…harbours. It included all the blockships (codenamed Corncobs) to create the outer breakwater (gooseberries) and 146 concrete caissons (phoenixes). At Arromanches, the first phoenix was sunk at dawn on 8 June 1944. By 15 June a further 115 had been sunk to create a five-mile-long arc between Tracy-sur-Mer in the…
Arromanches-les-Bains at low tide
Town hall.
Remains of the Mulberry harbour on the beach
Arromanches railway station around 1901