The top colour photo shows Meeching assisting a cargo ship. It's one of Fred Olsen Line's regular vessels but I can't tell you which one from this photo! She's come inside the breakwater bow-first and stopped using engines and her anchors. Meeching will now turn her around and tow her in stern-first, ready to berth at Fishers' terminal on the East Quay.

The next photo is our faithful Senlac swinging out from the berth as she sails for Dieppe.

Finally, the third photo is the little French cargo ship Capitaine le Goff. She was a disaster from day one, so slow that she could only make one round trip per day. She also rolled uncomfortably and you can see the big white tank that was installed on her to make her a better seaboat. It didn't work and she only lasted a few seasons.

All three are from the mid 1970's.

Hi Andy, was it the Capitaine le Goff that capsized, either in the Baltic or the Med, or was it the other truck ferry that used to visit regularly. I think her name was the Dundalk?

CLG did go to the Med Rob, but I can't find anything about her capsizing. Dundalk only ran here once to the best of my knowledge on the occasion when Senlac broke down and was replaced with Free Enterprise II. Dundalk carried her freight loads.

I'll have a dig around the web and report back!

Hi Andy, I seem to remember another similiar freight ferry, all white in colour that ran around the late 70's or early 80's, about the same time as the CLG. I'm wondering whether my mind is playing tricks and it was that one which flipped a year or two after it left Newhaven, NOT the CLG.

It will be one of those things that niggles me and wakes me in the middle of the night.!