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Encyclopedia Britannica



GOODWIN SANDS

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 240 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GOODWIN SANDS , a dangerous line of shoals at the entrance to the Strait of Dover from the North Sea, about 6 m. from the Kent
coast
  of England, from which they are separated by the anchorage of the
Downs
 . For this they form a shelter. They are partly exposed at low water, but the sands are shifting, and in spite of lights and bell-buoys the Goodwins are frequently the
scene
  of wrecks, while attempts to erect a lighthouse or beacon have failed. Tradition finds in the Goodwins the remnant of an
island
  called Lomea, which belonged to
Earl
  Godwine in the first half of the rith century, and was afterwards submerged, when the funds devoted to its
protection
  were diverted to build the
church
  steeple at Tenterden (q.v.). Four lightships mark the limits of the sands, and also
signal
  by rockets to the lifeboat stations on the
coast
  when any vessel is in distress on the sands. Perhaps the most terrible catastrophe recorded here was the wreck of thirteen ships of war during a
great
 
storm
  in November 1703.


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