MULBERRY HARBOUR. APRIL 1944, WEYMOUTH AND MARCHWOOD. TWO HUGE PREFABRICATED HARBOURS USED ON THE NORMANDY COAST AFTER THE INVASION WERE CONSTRUCTED IN PARTS, TOWED ACROSS THE CHANNEL AND SET DOWN. THE HARBOURS CONSISTED OF HUGE CONCRETE CAISSONS SET DOWN TO FORM THE BREAKWATER, FLOATING PIERS AND PIERHEADS, AS WELL AS 15 OBSOLETE SHIPS USED AS A PRELIMINARY HARBOUR ARM. - Rear Admiral W R Patterson, CB, CVO, ACNS, (W) (with pipe) discussing the floating breakwater (Bombardon) with Lieut Cdr R A Lochner, RNVR, (with glasses). It was Lieut Cdr Lochner who originally proposed the floating breakw
MULBERRY HARBOUR. APRIL 1944, WEYMOUTH AND MARCHWOOD. TWO HUGE PREFABRICATED HARBOURS USED ON THE NORMANDY COAST AFTER THE INVASION WERE CONSTRUCTED IN PARTS, TOWED ACROSS THE CHANNEL AND SET DOWN. THE HARBOURS CONSISTED OF HUGE CONCRETE CAISSONS SET DOWN TO FORM THE BREAKWATER, FLOATING PIERS AND PIERHEADS, AS WELL AS 15 OBSOLETE SHIPS USED AS A PRELIMINARY HARBOUR ARM. - Rear Admiral W R Patterson, CB, CVO, ACNS, (W) (with pipe) discussing the floating breakwater (Bombardon) with Lieut Cdr R A Lochner, RNVR, (with glasses). It was Lieut Cdr Lochner who originally proposed the floating breakwater, and led the team which developed it
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