Mulberry - first pierhead launched from Leith

Category

Library Item

Item no

37589

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VI, Mulberry - first pierhead launched from Leith

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1944

Type

Reproduction

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).

Pierheads had to be launched broadside. The first was launched on 26th January 1944. The pierhead was built in four weeks, as against four months taken to build the prototype on the Clyde.

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