Among the biggest concerns are ship-to-shore transitions.
You need some Mulberries.
A personal history lesson Marty on the Mulberry harbour
As a kid I was brought up and lived in a village called Stanwell. As a youngster I had a paper round and used to deliver to a road called Mulberry Avenue, never saw any Mulberry bushes there
It wasn't until much later I learned that it was named after the famous Mulberry harbour because the guy who designed them lived at Stanwell Place, a big rambling country home in the village.
"Sir John Watson Gibson OBE (9 August 1885 - 19 March 1947) was a civil engineering contractor who built the Sennar and Gebel Aulia Dams in Sudan and coordinated the construction of the Phoenix concrete caisson breakwaters for the 'artificial' Mulberry Harbours"
Born
9 August 1885
27 Pembroke Street, Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, Great Britain
Died
19 March 1947
Stanwell Place, Stanwell, Middlesex, Great Britain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:John_Godden/Subpage1"The Gibbons family sold Stanwell Place to civil engineer Sir John Watson Gibson in 1933. Gibson moved to Stanwell whilst building the Queen Mary Reservoir at Littleton,(the largest water storage reservoir in the world at that time). Living at Stanwell Lodge before his purchase of Stanwell Place (90 acres), and the adjoining Stanhope farm (261 acres, including Hammonds farm).[4] In 1936 the Metropolitan Water Board bought most of Gibson's estate, in a contract encompassing 346 acres.[5] It used this land in 1947 on which to develop the King George VI Reservoir.[4]
During the World War II Gibson through his work as deputy director-general civil engineering (special) at the Ministry of Supply (1943–4) he was one of the principal people responsible for the construction of the top secret Mulberry Harbours. It was as a result of this that he lent Stanwell Place to the SHAEF Commanders where they held two top level meetings during the build up to D-Day and the Normandy Invasion. The American high command including Henry L. Stimson, General George C. Marshall, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Ernest J. King and General of the Air Force Henry H. Arnold stayed at Stanwell Place during the meetings.[6]
After Gibson’s death, Stanwell Place and its residual 22acres were sold to King Faisal II of Iraq. Gibson's sons still owned the residual 17 acres of Stanhope farm.[5] After the assassination of King Faisal in 1958,[3] the estate was purchased for gravel extraction. Despite local attempts to prevent it, the house was allowed to become derelict and eventually knocked down."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanwell_PlaceAs kids we used to play in the Iraqi woods as we all knew them because of the connection with the owner King Faisal of Iraq.
Small world
