Castle Harbour, Bermuda Castle Harbour, Bermuda Castle Harbour is a large natural harbour in Bermuda. It is located between the northeastern end of the main island and St. David's Island. Originally called "Southampton Port", it was renamed as a result of its heavy fortification in the early decades of the Seventeenth century. A gem of Bermuda's coastline, it is surrounded by St. George's Parish in the north, east, south (Tucker's Town), and Hamilton Parish in the west. A chain of islands and rocks stretches across the main opening to the Atlantic Ocean, in the east, notably Cooper's Island (which was made a landmass
Bermuda Militia Infantry parties, or saboteurs landed from submarines. By the Second World War, in addition to the Royal Naval dockyard and the Cable and Wireless trans-Atlantic cable facilities, Bermuda had gained a Fleet Air Arm air station, RNAS Boaz Island (HMS Malabar), a Royal Air Force base on Darrell's Island, and navigational facilities for trans-Atlantic flight. As during the First World War, it became a forming-up point for trans-Atlantic convoys. To all of this, American and Canadian air and naval bases were soon to be added. Given the importance of Bermuda in the Battle of the Atlantic, it was deemed vitally important