HMS Holdfast was the worlds first Pipeline layer, it was used to lay the fuel/oil pipeline to cherbourg during the Normandy landings. (operation Pluto)
Operation Pluto (Pipe-Lines Under The Ocean) was a Second World War operation by British engineers, oil companies and armed forces to construct undersea oil pipelines under the English Channel between England and France in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
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