Dubris there at anchor "until the ninth hour" (about 3pm) waiting for his supply ships from the second port to come up and meanwhile convening a council of war, he ordered his subordinates to act on their own initiative and then sailed the fleet about seven miles along the coast to an open beach. The Roman fleet in British waters, the "Classis Britannica"'s main purpose was protecting the Gaul-to-Britain routes and supporting the land army in Britannia, not defending the British Isles from invasion. For this reason, its main harbor was in Gesoriacum (Boulogne), not Dover. However, it did have other,
The Port, Cambridge was the only planning district to lack an official name, though neighborhood and other Cambridge residents continued refer to the area alternatively as "the Port", a diminutive that used pre-1950 to refer to the whole Cambridgeport area, or as Area 4. Community organizations petitioned the Cambridge City Manager, in 2003 and 2013, to restore "The Port" as the official name of the Area 4 planning district for official documentation. On October 19, 2015, after the process had commenced the March prior, it was announced at a City Council meeting that Area 4 would officially adopt the poll-selected name, "The Port".