HARDWICKE GRANGE ARRIVING AT NEWHAVEN

Fishing from the breakwater

By Stephen Morris

Photo:Recognise anyone, that's when we were allowed to fish from the end of the breakwater.

Recognise anyone, that's when we were allowed to fish from the end of the breakwater.

Stephen Morris

Photo:Heading for the harbour or the West Pier!

Heading for the harbour or the West Pier!

Stephen Morris

Photo:Alongside the Easy Quay

Alongside the Easy Quay

Stephen Morris

Photo:Shame we don't see any of the large cargo ships anymore.

Shame we don't see any of the large cargo ships anymore.

Stephen Morris

This page was added by Stephen Morris on 01/07/2019.
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Hardwicke Grange was a really handsome ship and visited Newhaven on a number of occasions. I don't think her sister ship Royston Grange ever made it here, she was sadly almost gutted by a horrendous fire after a collision in the River Plate in 1972. Everyone on board lost their life.

Were these photos all taken at the same time? With Meeching seen at the stern, ready to pick up a line, that would seem to indicate that she's about to swing Hardwicke Grange in the bight of the Breakwater and tow her in stern-first, which would have been the more usual way of doing things.

 

By Andy Gilbert
On 02/07/2019

Andy, I don't think the last 2 pictures are taken on the same day but I do recall the ship entering harbour bow-first (as the pictures at the East Quay show). 

By Stephen Morris
On 04/07/2019
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