article_snippet.sent: Mulberries’, or artificial harbours as they were otherwise known, were portable, temporary harbours designed specifically in World War Two to help the Allies unload the heavy cargoes associated with a large-scale invasion.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, the Mulberries were to be transported and assembled off the French coast, providing mobile port facilities including cranes, roads and piers.
article_snippet.sent: Mulberry A’ and ‘Mulberry B’ were successfully used for the invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
article_snippet.sent: The American Mulberry A was destroyed by storms but the British Mulberry B served for six months after D-Day before being decommissioned.
article_snippet.sent: Mulberries’ (one pictured), or artificial harbours as they were otherwise known, were portable, temporary harbours designed specifically in World War Two to help the Allies unload the heavy cargoes associated with a large-scale invasion .