D-day Embarkation Slipways and Adjoining Section of Quay Wall
D-DAY EMBARKATION SLIPWAYS AND ADJOINING SECTION OF QUAY WALL, BEACON QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382072
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- D-day Embarkation Slipways and Adjoining Section of Quay Wall
- Statutory Address:
- D-DAY EMBARKATION SLIPWAYS AND ADJOINING SECTION OF QUAY WALL, BEACON QUAY
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1382072
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-2000
- List Entry Name:
- D-day Embarkation Slipways and Adjoining Section of Quay Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- D-DAY EMBARKATION SLIPWAYS AND ADJOINING SECTION OF QUAY WALL, BEACON QUAY
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- D-DAY EMBARKATION SLIPWAYS AND ADJOINING SECTION OF QUAY WALL, BEACON QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91813 63205
Details
SX9163 BEACON QUAY
885-1/17/10018 D-Day Embarkation Slipways and adjoini
06-JUN-00 ng linking section of quay wall
GV II*
2 slipways and adjoining section of quay wall. 1943. Reinforced concrete. The 2 slipways consist of square columns supporting principal beams, running parallel to the face of the quay, which in turn support secondary beams running out from the quay wall down the slope perpendicular to the quay. The decking running down from the wall to the water consists of pre-cast slabs laid perpendicular to the line of the quay supported on both the primary and secondary beams. The section of the wall between the slipways has a mooring post.
HISTORY. These slipways were constructed running out from the quay wall as part of Operation Overlord, the springboard for the Allied invasion of German-occupied Europe, by Royal Engineers, 931 Port Construction and Repair Company and were completed on 28/5/1943. The American troops of 4th Division of 7 Corps used the slipways to embark for the crossing to 'Utah' beach in Normandy for the D-Day landings. From a string of such embarkation sites between 6 June and 30 June 1944 over 850,000 men were landed on the invasion beach-heads, together with nearly 150,000 vehicles and 570,000 tons of supplies. Extremely rare survivals, these slipways are possibly the best-surviving example of D-Day fabric in the country and form part of a significant group of listed structures.
Listing NGR: SX9181363205
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482437
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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