It was found in Piraeus, the harbour of Athens.

The harbour of Mobile was formed by the drowning of the lower part of the valley of the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers as a result of the sinking of the land here, such sinking having occurred on other parts of the Gulf coast.

The end of the 19th century witnessed a sharp recovery of the local economy with increasing international trade and the growth of the city harbour leading to increased exports of several products ( particularly during World War I when Spain was a neutral country ).

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

In the 18th century Aberdour's harbour was improved by the addition of a stone pier to help handle the coal traffic from nearby collieries.

However, floating ice was additionally observed near Świnoujście harbour in January 2010.

Pomponius Mela mentions it among the small towns of the district, probably as it was eclipsed by its neighbour Tarraco ( modern Tarragona ), but it may be gathered from later writers that it gradually grew in wealth and consequence, favoured as it was with a beautiful situation and an excellent harbour.

In the 18th century, a fortress was built at Montjuïc that overlooked the harbour.

New Providence's harbour could easily accommodate hundreds of ships, and was too shallow for the Royal Navy's larger vessels to navigate.

Bonaparte demanded that his fleet be permitted entry to the fortified harbour of Valletta, and when the demand was refused the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.

He instructed his naval commander, Vice-Admiral François-Paul Brueys D ' Aigalliers, to anchor in Alexandria harbour, but naval surveyors reported that the channel into the harbour was too shallow and narrow for the larger ships of the French fleet.

Havana was furnished with the fortress of Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro to deter potential invaders, which included the English privateer Francis Drake, who sailed within sight of Havana harbour but did not disembark on the island.

* On 26 April 1949, broke in two as she was being towed into Rio de Janeiro harbour.

The building was designed to be in triangular shape because it could provide 20 % more of the office area to enjoy the harbour view as compared with the square or rectangular shaped buildings.

Massachusetts was increasingly concerned over reports of the capabilities of this fortress, and of privateers staging out of its harbour to raid New England fishermen on the Grand Banks.

Tonnage measured a ship's cargo capacity and was used to calculate tax and harbour dues.

* Topsham, Devon-a settlement and harbour that served Isca Dumnoniorum to which it was connected by road and river.

The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.

John Byron, who was unaware of the French presence in the east, explored Saunders Island, in the west, named the harbour Port Egmont, and claimed this and other islands for Britain on the grounds of prior discovery.

The city was razed out to the ground, and its harbour made unusable.

* 1940 – 1943 – Gibraltar harbour was attacked many times by Italian commando frogmen operating from Algeciras.

The Qoornoq railway was used for transporting fish from the harbour to scaffolds for drying.

It was a popular tourist spot with several guest houses, restaurants, cafes, several brick houses and a small harbour with a pier for small trading ships.

* Port Mahon ( officially Maó in Catalan, Mahón in Spanish )-became the capital during the British domination thanks to its strategic natural harbour.

The harbour was officially recognised as ' The Port of Newhaven ' in 1882.

The Queen and Prince Philip then officially opened the refurbished Beacon, a museum set on the harbour.

Although not officially open to the public, the bunker has several openings allowing entry, and the gun position provides an extensive view of the harbour.

The harbour was officially named Port Nicholson until it assumed its current name in the 1980s.

In 1861 in the Tsushima Incident a Russian fleet tried to force open a harbour not officially opened to foreign trade with foreign countries, but was finally repelled with the help of the British.

In 1985 HRH The Princess Anne, Mrs. Mark Phillips, visited the Village to officially open the new harbour and was received by the local community, she toured the fishing boat " Willing Lad " accompanied by its skipper, James McClements.

The German army did not alter its military plans concerning Finland after the peace treaty with the Bolsheviks because the Civil War of the Finns had opened an easy access with low costs to Fennoscandia, and because troops of a British Naval squadron had invaded the harbour of Murmansk on the northwestern coast of Russia by the Arctic Ocean on 9 March 1918.

In 1970 a new deep-water harbour was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

After Chile ’ s independence from Spain ( 1818 ), Valparaíso became the main harbour for the nascent Chilean navy, and opened to international trade, formerly limited to commerce with Spain and its other colonies.

Goor had a small harbour along the river Regge ( which flows to the Vecht near Ommen ), but when the Twente canal was opened in 1936, a new industrial port was built there.

In 1862, the line was extended to serve the harbour directly, and a link to Portpatrick was also opened.

The London Brighton and South Coast Railway ( LB & SCR ) constructed their own wharf and facilities on the east side of the river, and opened the Newhaven harbour railway station.

In 1897 the canal of the Kaiserfahrt was opened to navigation, and this waterway between the Stettin harbour and the Baltic Sea was deepened between 1900 – 01.

In 1868 the extensions to the harbour were opened by Lady Belmore and named Belmore Basin.

The harbour was finally opened on August 30, 1906.

When the Bridgwater and Taunton Canal was opened in 1827 it joined the River Parrett by a lock at Huntworth, where a basin was constructed, but in 1841 the canal was extended to a floating harbour in Bridgwater, and the Huntworth link was filled in.

There is no bridge crossing the harbour, but there are three cross-harbour tunnels: Cross Harbour Tunnel ( opened 1972 ), Eastern Harbour Crossing ( 1989 ), and Western Harbour Crossing ( 1997 ).

Penzance railway station, the terminus of the West Cornwall Railway, opened on 11 March 1852 on the eastern side of the harbour, although trains only ran to Redruth at first.

It was opened in October, 1866 adjacent to the harbour and the Buoy Store became the Trinity House National Lighthouse Museum until 2005 when Trinity House closed the museum.

In 1812, the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway opened, mainly to carry coal from the area to the harbour at Troon, but also carrying passengers.

Manx Transportation Museum, which opened in 2002, is housed in the former Brickworks building near to the harbour.

Peel railway station opened on 1 July 1873, beside the harbour, as the western terminus of the Isle of Man Railway's Douglas to Peel line.

The railway built its own wharf and warehousing facilities on the east side of the river, and opened the Newhaven harbour railway station.

The first horse-drawn railway ( although with wooden rails ) on Swedish soil was opened in 1798 at Höganäs, connecting the coal mine with the harbour.

It was opened in 1801, using the natural harbour.

A new metro system was added, Montreal's harbour was expanded and the St. Lawrence Seaway was opened during this time.

A small postern is situated in front of the church, while the first larger gate, the Gate of the Sophiae (, Porta tōn Sophiōn ) or Iron Gate (, Porta Sidēra ), opened to the harbour.

Next was the Gate of Kontoskalion (), modern Kumkapısı (" Sand Gate "), which opened to the late Byzantine harbour of the same name, intended to replace the long silted-up Harbour of the Sophiae.

In 1927 the bridge that connected the island to the mainland was opened and 1941 the first harbour pier.

In 1832 a harbour was built at Burry Port, a few years after the nearby harbour at Pembrey opened.