Newhaven shipping

I know the land transport is a bit minuscule, but the sky was too picturesque to crop down the photo to increase the sizes of the buses & train proportionately!

Apart from cropping, levelling and framing, this shot hasn't been enhanced in Photoshop - for a change! I used to live in Somerset, near the coast, where there are two islands - Steep Holm and Flat Holm. So I was amused to find, on looking up the Newhaven port movements, that the little vessel, surveying the entrance to the harbour, was named Flat Holm. You can tell, if you get the angle right, that this is surveying by the vertical row of navigation lights on its mast.

For details of this vessel please see www.yachtandcoast.com/environment/making-waves-in-space-and-on-earth She was towed into port by the Newhaven lifeboat having had engine problems.

Given the size and layout of the Lifeboat station one cannot get better views than this of vessels moored alongside. The other side of the harbour is within the secure port area.

Same photo - a closer view

Now a vertical version - not a crop - I actually turned my camera over!

The trawler appeared to have some power and seemed, viewed from a distance, to berth herself on arrival in harbour. The Magnus Musson is a semi-retired pilot boat, there being two newer and more advanced vessels now on duty.

Not a very exciting view, with the hatch covers obscuring the bridge, but my attempts to get a stern view were hampered by glare, as the sun was immediately behind the ship!

There is another view of this former Customs Cutter taken when it was further down this creek. Some work seems to have been done on the superstructure.Some of the rust has had a coat of red oxide and the red hoist is a new addition since then. www.ipernity.com/doc/364457/25823969