Spud

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construction of Mulberry harbours

  • (Top) Plan and (bottom) side view of Mulberry B, the artificial harbour built at Arromanches, France, during the Normandy Invasion of World War II.
    In Mulberry

    …terminated at great pierheads, called Spuds, that were jacked up and down on legs which rested on the seafloor. These structures were to be sheltered from the sea by lines of massive sunken caissons (called Phoenixes), lines of scuttled ships (called Gooseberries), and a line of floating breakwaters (called Bombardons).…

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