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- BROOM FLYBRIDGE 42.
Following on from the post from Omaha beach we travelled a little way along the coast to see the artificial port created for the D day landings at Arromanches.
2 ports were built but the one off Omaha beach was so badly destroyed in a storm in late June ,44 it had to be abandoned and all movements transferred to the 2nd one built just off Gold beach at Arromanche and named Port Winston.
The Mulberry harbours were assembled at Portland Harbour (see page 4) and towed by tugs at 4.5 knots across the channel and assembled on site by the Royal Engineers, designed by a Welshman Hugh Ivory Jones they were built of 6.000 tonnes of concrete, consisting of 33 jetties joined together by metal linkspans (photo)and 10 miles of floating roadway.
They were intended for 3 months use but were actually in service for 6 and received 2.5 million men, 5000.000 vehicles and 4 million tonnes of supplies.
The photo,s show the remains of the port and a damaged one washed up ashore. You can get an idea of their size by the people walking on the beach beside them.
There are many cemetery,s and remembrance places here as is sadly the case of a bloody battle field.
The château at Cruelly was Field Marshall Montgomerys HQ during the Battle of Normandy.
Incidentally the Frenchman Eduard Gaillout was the first person in Europe to invent condensed milk, the site of his creamery is now a laboratory site for Nestle milk productst.
2 ports were built but the one off Omaha beach was so badly destroyed in a storm in late June ,44 it had to be abandoned and all movements transferred to the 2nd one built just off Gold beach at Arromanche and named Port Winston.
The Mulberry harbours were assembled at Portland Harbour (see page 4) and towed by tugs at 4.5 knots across the channel and assembled on site by the Royal Engineers, designed by a Welshman Hugh Ivory Jones they were built of 6.000 tonnes of concrete, consisting of 33 jetties joined together by metal linkspans (photo)and 10 miles of floating roadway.
They were intended for 3 months use but were actually in service for 6 and received 2.5 million men, 5000.000 vehicles and 4 million tonnes of supplies.
The photo,s show the remains of the port and a damaged one washed up ashore. You can get an idea of their size by the people walking on the beach beside them.
There are many cemetery,s and remembrance places here as is sadly the case of a bloody battle field.
The château at Cruelly was Field Marshall Montgomerys HQ during the Battle of Normandy.
Incidentally the Frenchman Eduard Gaillout was the first person in Europe to invent condensed milk, the site of his creamery is now a laboratory site for Nestle milk productst.
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