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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...
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    place of the Normandy landings and in particular as the place where a Mulberry harbour artificial port was installed. This artificial port allowed the disembarkation...
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    special technology was developed, including two artificial ports called Mulberry harbours and an array of specialised tanks nicknamed Hobart's Funnies. In the...
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    facilities—would be overcome through the development of artificial Mulberry harbours. A series of modified tanks, nicknamed Hobart's Funnies, dealt with...
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    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...
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    The Portland Mulberry Harbour Phoenix Units are two reinforced concrete caissons, built as part of the artificial Mulberry harbours that were assembled...
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    Mulberry Harbour, Mark Hughes, ISBN 0-86381-757-2 "Conwy Morfa, Gwynedd". Marine Conservation Society. Retrieved 2 November 2018. "Mulberry Harbours"...
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    D-Day. There is a memorial to the brave men who were involved in the Mulberry Harbour project. The memorial was placed there in June 1999, and states: "To...
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  • plants known as mulberry for plants with similar names. Mulberry may also refer to: Mulberry, Cornwall, a hamlet in Lanivet Mulberry, Autauga County,...
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    Harbor (redirect from Natural harbour)
    Inland harbor List of marinas List of seaports Mandracchio Marina Mulberry harbour Quay Roadstead Seaport Shipyard Wharf "Geology 303 Ch 8 Los Angeles...
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    mercy of the weather. Two artificial Mulberry harbours were planned: Mulberry A for the American sector and Mulberry B for the British sector. Work commenced...
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    for the 'Whale' floating roadway was crucial to the success of the Mulberry harbour that was used in the Normandy Landings. Starting the war as a sapper...
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    HWTMA Mulberry Harbour". maritimearchaeologytrust.org. Archived from the original on 13 September 2014. Historic England. "MULBERRY HARBOUR, TWO SECTIONS...
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    International Law, AuthorHouse, pp. 210–229 Melber, Takuma (2021) [2016]. Pearl Harbour (2 ed.). Cambridge, England: PolityPress. ISBN 978-1-5095-3720-4. (first...
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    Regiment captured Arromanches (future site of one of the artificial Mulberry harbours), and 69th Infantry Brigade on the eastern flank made contact with...
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    containing no cement and no ferrous material.[citation needed] The "Mulberry harbours" used in the D-Day landings were made of ferrocement, and their remains...
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    defences against the sea were added by bringing part of the remains of a Mulberry harbour used for the Normandy Landings, and burying them in the sand. Today...
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    London Underground. The company also produced pivoting sections for the Mulberry Harbour for the British War Office 1944. The company was formed at a meeting...
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  • constructed airfields and roads and erected bridges; they constructed the Mulberry Harbour and laid the Pipe Line Under the Ocean (PLUTO). The first record of...
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    Mulberry harbors, prefabricated artificial harbors towed in pieces across the English Channel and assembled just off shore. Construction of 'Mulberry...
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    in 1945. Courbet was scuttled on 9 June 1944 as a breakwater for a Mulberry harbour used during the Battle of Normandy. Concerned about underwater hits...
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  • Naval history Nazi plunder Opposition Technology Allied cooperation Mulberry harbour Total war Strategic bombing Puppet states Women Art and World War II...
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    or died of wounds, 4,023 wounded or injured, and 177 captured. The Mulberry harbours built off the landing beaches were damaged in a storm on 19 June Divisions...
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    significant military engineering projects of World War II include Mulberry harbour and Operation Pluto. Modern military engineering still retains the...
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  • including blocking the approaches to Scapa Flow and the building of six Mulberry harbour units. For a time, Balfour Beatty's activities were dominated by two...
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    demolition charges would make it useless afterwards. Prefabricated Mulberry harbours were to be built and towed to beaches during the invasion. While the...
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  • Naval history Nazi plunder Opposition Technology Allied cooperation Mulberry harbour Total war Strategic bombing Puppet states Women Art and World War II...
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    Naval history Nazi plunder Opposition Technology Allied cooperation Mulberry harbour Total war Strategic bombing Puppet states Women Art and World War II...
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    build several Royal Ordnance Factories, airfields, and worked on the Mulberry harbour units. By the start of the 1970s, Costain was building around 1,000...
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    World War by the British Admiralty. Based on a similar concept to the Mulberry harbour used for the Normandy landings in 1944, Lily and Clover were two different...
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