THE KATHLEEN MARY LIFEBOAT
A low tide launch in Newhaven Harbour
By John Hills
This is a picture from my late mother's collection of slides of the harbour, showing the Newhaven Lifeboat the Kathleen Mary being launched at low tide sometime in the early 1960's. On the starboard stern is Harold "trotter" Hills the radio operator, getting ready to raise the aft mast which had attached the short wave wire transmitting aerial. A sight which will be sadly missed.
Moored on the east quay opposite you can see the large bucket dredger the Foremost which was used to keep the harbour free from the build up of mud.