They had to dredge Portsmouth Harbour to accommodate the new QE2-class aircraft carriers.
Almost every week it seemed work had to stop and the area evacuated because they kept pulling up unexploded ordnance, Portsmouth being the home of the Navy and therefore very heavily bombed during WW2.
Almost every week it seemed work had to stop and the area evacuated because they kept pulling up unexploded ordnance, Portsmouth being the home of the Navy and therefore very heavily bombed during WW2.