In the first year of the war supplies were despatched via specially designated wharves at Southampton and Newhaven; in 1915 Littlehampton and the Albert Docks in London were added. By February 1918 train ferries, where the train itself was driven onto the ferry, sailed from Richborough to Calais, and later from Southampton to Dieppe. Richborough was also used to load barges which were towed across the Channel.
