Mulberry

[bobby554]

Hello,
Who owns the Mulberry abandoned in Langstone harbour near Portsmouth?

[daffy654]

The what?
How would anyone on Answerbank know who abandoned it.

[Buenchico]

Daffy:
This is what Bobby is referring to:
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2561854

Bobby:
Since it was the property of the War Office at the time that it became damaged, it almost certainly still belongs to the Ministry of Defence now.

Chris

[buildersmate]

Not so, Chris.
"In 1960, the Mulberry unit was purchased by a London metal merchant with a view obtaining its steel reinforcements, the terms of the tender requiring that no debris remain on the seabed. It is assumed that the cost of removing the reinforcements under this condition was prohibitive as the Mulberry unit remains on Sinah Sands until this day."

From here: -
http://www.hayling.co...c/mulberryharbour.php

[sara3]

not a nice expensive handbag, then?

[sara3]

what? WHAT???!

you thought so, too ;o)

[sara3]

oh crap.. I've made a lousy joke on a serious thread.. apologies to bobby and anyone else I may have offended.

and if joko looks in, you were right about me, love ;o)

[AlBags]

Sara was going to buy it .. no matter what it looked like : )

[micmak]

I had to google that to find out why Sara and Red were talking handbags. At least I now know lol.

[horseshoes]

The engineer who designed the Mulberry harbour was born in my home town of Bangor and later lived in Conway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Iorys_Hughes

There is a smart new (ish) restaurant at the Conway Marina named The Mulberry.

[sara3]

I'd put my shoes on AlBags.. I was going to go and claim it for myself!

[AlBags]

Scruffy old bag! (the article, that is) : )

[AlBags]

(well it might have been)