A BOMB disposal team was called to a Southampton street yesterday.
Officers were called to Tarmac’s Southampton Wharf operation at Marine Parade after a dredging boat arrived at the marina with a “piece of ordnance” from the Second World War on board shortly before 10.15am yesterday.
A Hampshire Constabulary spokeswoman, said: “Shortly before 10am police received a report of a dredging boat having arrived back at the marina on Marine Parade, Southampton, with a piece of ordnance on board.”
Police added that they called the explosive ordnance disposal team, which dealt with the incident.
One witnesses, who didn’t want to be named, said: “I saw the police drive past on Marine Parade shortly before 10.30am, it was quite a shock to many people who saw them.”
No evacuations were made at any of the nearby premises.
Gordon Tuck, marine director for Tarmac, said: “A WWII bomb was discovered by a team at our Southampton Wharf earlier today.
“We alerted the police, who contacted the bomb disposal team who dealt with the device safely.
“It is not uncommon for old munitions to be dredged up, so all of our employees are trained to deal with these circumstances.”
The “item” was destroyed shortly after 1.30pm in the afternoon.
The incident is the second in the region in the space of eight weeks after a similar ‘item’ was found at Solent Airport near Fareham on November 9.
The device was found during construction work for a new sub station on Swordfish Business Park.
As a result, several houses in parts of Lee-on-the-Solent had to be evacuated when it was removed by bomb disposal experts.
Stubbington Lane in the village was also closed in both directions to assist in the evacuations.
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