Phil Sutters' photos with the keyword: dredger

The dredger had been sucking up shingle from the sea bed a mile or two off the coast, near Newhaven. The cargo is off-loaded at Newhaven's South Quay, where it is graded and loaded onto railway wagons and transported to the London area, or into lorries for use more locally, as aggregate in the production of concrete.

A small selection of photos taken as the sun set over Seaford Bay, on England's south coast.

To see the 'cannon' in action please see www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/25933585

Another photo of the work being done to improve the harbour facilities at Newhaven, ready for servicing the construction and maintenance of the Rampion off-shore wind farm. The bucket did not seem to be bringing up anything but water. They were working with a fairly high tide, so I wonder whether the bucket was actually reaching the bottom.

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.

A quick trip from Seaford to Southease - quick but multi-facetted! A grab lifts the shingle,dredged from the English Channel outside Newhaven, drops it in a hopper. It then runs up the red-framed conveyor belt and onto the quayside.

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.