HARBOUR VIEWS

Graeme took a lot of good photos from that dredger!

Love the top one! The little coaster at the left is 'Captain Tom's' Con Zelo - a real Newhaven regular, seen again in the bottom photo - and the 'see through' ferry is the Cornouailles. The approaching ferry is Senlac.

The 'Harbour Entrance' photo also shows a big collection of foreign trawlers. I'd guess there had been a bit of a blow the night before and they'd opted to shelter in Newhaven.

Love the snowy one of Meeching and the Louis Marchesi lifeboat.

As a young lad I spent all my school holidays at Rushey Hill Caravan Park, and most of that time was spent helping the then Lifeboat Coxwain Len Pattern, cleaning the brasses on the Lifeboat. Looking at your pictures, it's is a lovely reminder of how the harbour use to be, and looked. I came down for a day last year and was shocked by the way it's changed. The comment by Andy Gilbert does have one mistake in it though, he names the lifeboat as the Louis Marchesi, which is the correct name of the boat at that time, but the picture shows Lifeboat No. 44-001, known as "The Yank". She was the original US coastguard cutter given to the RNLI to help develop the Waveney class Lifeboat, and was used as a relief boat.