COLLIER 'KEYNES'
A one time regular at the North Quay
By Andy Gilbert
One another page there's talk of a 'salt caked coaster from Seaham'. That vessel may or may not have been the Keynes, but she was a regular sight at the North Quay for so many years that she deserves her own page.
She was one of Stevenson Clarke's fleet of colliers that plied their trade around the coast in the days of coal fired power stations. Newhaven was a regular port of call for her, and she would come in every week or so laden with coal for the gasworks at Bexhill, I think.
I can remember her in the early 1960's, and we later got visits from some of the more modern vessels in the 'Stevie Clarke' fleet. I guess by then she had been sold on or scrapped due to old age.
Keynes enters Newhaven
Photo: Kind permission of Newhaven Museum
A second view of the Keynes
Photo: Kind permission of Newhaven Museum