Phoenix breakwaters
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The Phoenix breakwaters were a set of reinforced concrete caissons built as part of the artificial Mulberry harbours that were assembled as part of the preparations for the Normandy landings during Wo
A line of Phoenix caissons forming a breakwater at Arromanches in Normandy
A pair of Phoenixes at Portland Harbour in Dorset
Watersnoodmuseum
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The Watersnoodmuseum or Flood Museum is the Dutch national knowledge and remembrance centre for the flood of 1 February 1953. The museum was officially opened on 2 April 2001. It welcomes around 100.0
Phoenix breakwaters
…them for a dyke at Ouwerkerk after the North Sea Flood of 1 February 1953. These four have now been converted into a museum for the floods called the Watersnoodmuseum. One can walk through the four caissons. Two of the B1 type Phoenix breakwaters (73 and 74) were sold to Sweden in 1949, and towed in July. Raised from…
Ouwerkerk Watersnoodmuseum 1
Ouwerkerk Watersnood monument 1953 – Weg van de Buitenlandse Pers