A man has died following an accident onboard the Peterhead-registered scalloper Honeybourne III PD 905 off the coast of Sussex. The incident, in the early hours of Saturday, 7 October, prompted a multi-agency response, with Newhaven RNLI’s Severn-class all-weather lifeboat…
Preparations are underway to remove the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse off the East Sussex coast. The lighthouse, which has stood 11km out to sea since it was built in 1971, was officially decommissioned in March last year. Recently, a large barge…
In the Kent town of Deal, a ‘limb’ of the Cinque Ports, fishing is now mostly about preserving heritage, reports John Periam Fishing boats on Deal beach as recently as 2001. David Skardon’s boat Fair Chance with a day’s catch.…
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