Newhaven shipping

The caption, after a slight cropping, is all this photo has had added. Sometimes I know when not to tinker with an image!

The building in the background is the former Newhaven Marine railway station, shortly before it was demolished.

DS is the port code for Dumfries, so I assume that these two vessels originate from there, although this one's name seems less Scottish than Isla-S!

The two yachts were heading down stream having passed through the swing bridge, presumably having been in one of the boat yards around Denton Island. The cabin cruiser was heading towards the bridge and was seen to head into the branch of the Ouse where the boatyards are. The items of heavy plant on the far shore were clearing away the former railway engine sheds and other old dockside building, prior to major redevelopments that are planned for the port.

Not our Granny - these were members of another family visiting the lifeboat - but we do often take photos for those who didn't come on the outing.

Ferries usually go astern on leaving Newhaven, except in rough weather, when they do a very tight turn within the harbour. At this point the weather was breezy, but the wind was forecast to increase in strength with gusts upto 40 - 60 mph.

This is a cluster of small fishing boats. The ports shown against their names are the home ports shown on the UK fishing vessel list. The registration numbers and the details on the sterns differ from those - Insomnia seems to have originated from Fleetwood and the other two from Littlehampton.

This photo was uploaded to Flickr and not Newhaven Squawka. I don't mind them including this in their site, but they should make it clear where they got it from and it would be nice to be asked! The Flickr site does clearly show 'All Rights Reserved' A quick trip from Seaford to Southease - quick but multi-facetted! Having seen Arco Dee and the pilot boat entering Newhaven Harbour, from the train to Southease, I thought I would stop off, at Newhaven Town, on the way home and take her portrait.

The only vessel to pass through the bridge on this opening. As the opening can cause tailbacks on the A259 for up to a mile or more on either side of the bridge the Harbour Authority usually tries to bunch up passages, but sometimes there's not much traffic to and from the boatyards and North Quay, so one little craft can hold up hundreds of road vehicles. The flagged marker buoys probably indicate fishing using 'pots' to catch lobsters or crayfish, the flags showing where the pots have been deployed.

I have no idea whether this little craft is here for maintenance or for decommissioning & sale. It doesn't have any markings visible from these angles to identify it, apart from the Coastguard logo. I have compared this boat with other Coastguard vessels online and the make & model seem to match. If anyone has better information about it, I shall be happy to update the caption.

This was a long shot from a couple of hundred yards south of the swing bridge. I don't think that I have seen HM Cutter Seeker before. Vigilant and Valiant have both been here recently. I have yet to see Searcher and the ex-Finnish Coastguard Service HMC Protector that was acquired earlier this year. The original four are sister vessels from the Damen yard in Holland.

I have assumed that this is a houseboat. I think it is too small for a pleasure steamer or a floating restaurant. It looks as if it has been built on an old barge or lighter.