Remains Mulberry Harbour

D-Day (Gold Beach) in Arromanches-les-Bains (Mulberry harbour) in Normandy, France //071ENG

Arromanches, France Mulberry Harbour Excerpt

Some footage of mine from Arromanches, France, featured in a British engineering documentary.

Mulberry Harbour remains at Arromanches

Arromanches, Normandy. The remains of the Mulberry Harbour created in June 1944 to aid D-Day.

Arromanches France --- remains of Port Winston

The remains of Port Winston, at Arromanches, France. A Mulberry harbour was a type of temporary harbour developed in World War II to offload cargo on the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Two prefabricated or artificial military harbours were taken across the English Channel from Britain with the invading army in sections and assembled off the coast of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion of France in 1944. Sorry I didn't get more detail on the center causeway of the port.

Mulberry Harbour

Mulberry Harbour Littlestone
portable temporary harbour developed by the British in World War II to facilitate rapid offloading of cargo onto the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy this one did not refloat and remains

Mulburry Harbor, WWII, Arromanches-le-Basin, Normandy, France, Sep 2017

Just a walk on the beach where seventy years ago the Allies built a Mulburry Harbor, that was built in the UK, floated across the English Channel, and supplied the invasion of France and Germany. The German's had sunk ships in the existing harbors to prevent their use by the Allies.

This video shows what remains of the Mulberry Harbor B, Port Winston in a 2015 fly over by two War Birds based in the UK.

This is a documentary on the Mulberry Harbors. It's excellent.

This is a 3D computer model of Port Winston:

Arromanches Mulberry Harbour

A Mulberry harbour was a portable temporary harbour developed by the British in World War II to facilitate rapid offloading of cargo onto the beaches during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

Two prefabricated or artificial military harbours were taken in sections across the English Channel from Britain with the invading army and assembled off the coast of Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion of France in 1944.

Background :

The Dieppe Raid of 1942 had shown that the Allies could not rely on being able to penetrate the Atlantic Wall to capture a port on the north French coast. The problem was that large ocean-going ships of the type needed to transport heavy and bulky cargoes and stores needed sufficient depth of water under their keels, together with dockside cranes, to off-load their cargo and this was not available except at the already heavily-defended French harbours. Thus, the Mulberries were created to provide the port facilities necessary to offload the thousands of men and vehicles, and tons of supplies necessary to sustain Operation Overlord and the Battle of Normandy. The harbours were made up of all the elements one would expect of any harbour: breakwater, piers, roadways etc.

Mulberry harbour Port Winston - Arromanches, Normandy (France)

One of two artificial harbours built in support of the Allied war effort during/after the D-day landings in Normandy, 1944. Both were finished on June 9th, only three days after the initial landings. However, on June 19th, a heavy storm wrecked both Mulberry harbours. Mulberry A, located at Omaha beach, was damaged beyond repairs. Mulberry B, located at Arromanches, was patched up as soon as possible.

For more info:

Mulberry Harbour Arromanches 10th May 2014

Arromanches Mulberry models

The D-Day Museum in Arromanches has some detailed models of the units used to create the artificial 'Mulberry' harbour, the remains of which can still be seen through the museum windows.

But it's hard to understand exactly what you are looking at, and how it fitted in to the port. This might help explain it.

The map I'm using is the best one I've seen that explains the modules that made up Mulberry B (Arromanches), and its layout. It was kindly lent to me by The D-Day Center (

The Mulberry Harbour.wmv

The Mulberry Harbour was an artificial port the size of Dover, that was prefabricated in England, and then towed across the Channel to the Normandy coast, after the D-Day landing had started. This harbour is at Arromanches, and with out it the war might have turned out differently.

D-Day / Mulberry Harbours - Battle Stations documentary

The Mulberry Harbours were floating portable harbours developed and built by the British during the Second World War. After the Normandy beachheads were successfully held by the Allies following the D-Day invasion of Tuesday June 6th 1944, two prefabricated concrete harbours were floated in sections across the English Channel and assembled off 'Omaha' beach (Mulberry A) and 'Gold' beach (Mulberry B). Once in place, they made possible the offloading of cargo onto the beaches. The Normandy Landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) remain the largest seaborne invasion in history.

Arromanches 65th Anniversary D-Day Normandie - Mulberry harbor

Arromanches 65th Anniversary D-Day Normandie - Mulberry harbor

The Mulberry Harbour

Southampton Water's Hidden Treasure The Mulberry Harbour Mulberry Harbour was perhaps the single greatest innovation that ensured victory for the Allies in the Battle of Normandy that followed D-Day.

Normandy Invasion Beaches and Arromanches Mulberry Harbour

This was filmed at 5-30am on 6th June 2012, the 68th anniversary of D-Day. I was trying to get a flavour of the conditions (minus the guns and bombs!) that would have been experienced by the Allied soldiers as they sailed towards shore. The video includes views of the Mulberry harbour sections at Arromanches.

Hayling Island WWII Mulberry Harbour

Just off shore at the Hayling Island Ferry point a large concrete structure serves an ominous reminder to part of Hayling Island's role in World War Two.

Prior to the D-Day Landings of 1944, the area around the Ferry Boat Inn was used to construct sections of Mulberry Harbour

One of these cassions developed a fatal crack and was eventually abandoned on a sandbank in Langstone Harbour.

It remains there to this day, a poigniant reminder of yester year.

We Will & Do Remember Them.

Mulberry Harbour

The remains of the British Mulberry Harbour on Gold Beach, Arromanches, Normandy.

Arromanches-les-Bain

Arromanches-les-Bains (or, simply Arromanches) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Basse-Normandie region in north-western France.
It is located on the coast in the heart of the area where the Normandy landings took place on D-Day, on 6 June 1944.

The town lies along the stretch of coastline designated as Gold Beach during the D-Day landings , one of the beaches used by British troops in the Allied invasion. Arromanches was selected as one of the sites for two Mulberry Harbours built on the Normandy coast, the other one built further West at Omaha Beach. Sections of the Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches still remain today with huge concrete blocks sitting on the sand, and more can be seen further out at sea.
Today Arromanches is mainly a tourist town. Situated in a good location for visiting all of the battle sites and War Cemeteries, there is also a museum at Arromanches with information about Operation Overlord and in particular, the Mulberry harbours.

(Wikipedia)