The recent letter about the Shoreham Beach whale not being the first to be washed up in the area is correct.
On May 21, 1935, a young female killer whale weighing 6096kg and measuring 5.8 metres was washed up next to the Palace Pier.
The Argus recorded this with an article and a photograph and the skeleton of the whale is now on permanent display at the Booth Museum.
In 1984 a large Fin whale washed up on the beach in Bexhill-on-Sea, the jaw of which is 2.7 metres long and also is at the Booth Museum.
-Jeremy M. Adams, assistant keeper (natural sciences), Booth Museum of Natural History
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