Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: rust

An up-date on this sad old wreck, partially cut up for salvage and then left to rust away. Given the current state of the mooring lines I do wonder if on a high tide it could just slide into the channel. Fortunately it is not a much used waterway.

Well now I know there is just the group - Knots & rope! September 2015 - now there is 'Are we trash people?' as well!

More than a touch of Photoshop here.

I am not sure what this rusty relic is. My best guess is a mast or derrick.

One can now see more of the ship's structure than a week ago, when it was piled high with junk. A local website, papers and ITV all carried photos of the blaze e.g. www.seahavenfm.com/news.php?id=326&cat_id=&p=#ontitle None of these mentions that the burning was part of the demolition process, that got out of control, as was reported in the Brighton Argus subsequently. There is now a scaffolding gangway on to the hull from the roadside. It looks as though a hole has been cut low in the hull, to stop the ship rising with the tide and dislodging the scaffolding.

This was the last picture of this old ship in this condition. There were shots of it ablaze on the net recently, so I shall be interested to see what it looks like now, when I am in Newhaven tomorrow. Later - I now see in the local paper that it was a controlled fire, that got a bit out of control! Demolition workers were clearing the wooden parts before cutting up the steel hull. Will it be gone tomorrow - doubt it. Six-year-old grandson will be upset. It was one of his favorite landmarks when we first moved here five years ago.

Even the seed-heads are rust coloured! These grab-buckets were probably used to load and unload loose cargoes of stone or coal from coasters calling at Newhaven. They are now lying behind boat-yards' sheds.

This claw grab is like the ones used currently, further down the river, to load scrap metal onto ships for Germany. Standing there on its six legs it looked like something from 'War of the Worlds'.