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Mulberry at Leith Docks
Unknown, 1944, Photograph, Reproduction
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Mulberry at Leith Docks
Mulberry at Leith Docks
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Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VI, Mulberry at Leith Docks
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Unknown
Date
1944
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The Mulberry harbours were two portable harbours, Mulberry A and Mulberry B, which were transported in sections to the coast of Normandy so that stores and reinforcements for the D-day landings in June 1944 could be offloaded onto the beaches. They were intended for use until a French port could be captured. Mulberry B was abandoned early due to storm damage but Mulberry A was used for ten months after D-day.
The majority of the construction work took place at Leith, on the shoreline between Western Harbour and the former Henry Robb & Co shipbuilding yards (where Ocean Terminal is now).
About 600 labourers and staff were employed on the building of the Mulberry pierheads at Leith. This is a view looking along the building berths, in March 1944.
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