Newhaven shipping

Newhaven - a multi-modal transport hub! Once I even caught a helicopter landing about a quarter of a mile east of here!

As a man standing waiting to cross the river said, "Why would they name a ship after a land-locked English county?"

Shot almost directly into the sun, so apologies for the quality.

Seven Sisters, named after a series of cliffs on the Sussex coast, manoeuvring stern-first out of Newhaven Harbour. Generally she and her sister ship, Cote d'Albatre, load through the bow here and the stern in Dieppe.

Round photo by Grandson Sam.

I initially thought that the Uphusen* was still berthed there. It wasn't until I blew it up on the computer that I realised that it was a different ship! * www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/33851625 OK, the bridge roof and hatch covers are different colours but otherwise they look very similar.

What else do you do with a series of shots of what must be one of the slowest sports around? As you can see this took place while I was recording yesterday's update on the scrapping of the old coaster - seen in the back-ground.

Saturday 26.9.2015 saw a fair amount of activity in Newhaven Harbour. There were several lighters with a couple of bucket cranes dredging along the East Quay, upstream from the ferry berth. GPS Avenger had probably towed them there. Survey work was being carried out further downstream and there was an unusual number of small craft around as well - ribs and small day craft. No doubt this will be the start of the build up to setting up the Rampion wind farm support base.