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Goodwin Sands

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Goodwin Sands, stretch of shoals and sandbars, c.10 mi (20 km) long, lying off the east coast of Kent, SE England. It forms a breakwater E of The Downs, a roadstead. Shipwrecks were formerly frequent on the Sands. The shifting sands do not allow the construction of lighthouses, but there are several lightships and numerous buoys. Traditionally, the Sands were once a fertile isle called Lomea, the property of Godwin, earl of Wessex; Lomea was submerged by a great storm in the late 11th cent.
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The wreck - thought to be the Dutch East India Company vessel Rooswijk - was discovered by divers in the Kellet Gut area of the Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast in 2004.
Britain Today: Wreck care by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
1899 - The first radio distress call was sent for assistance to a merchant ship aground on Goodwin Sands, off the Kent coast.
Stop the Clock; March 17 by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
A real storm had left the Ross Revenge grounded on the notorious Goodwin Sands, 16 miles from her anchorage.
Behind TheMic; The Midlands' radio stars... revealed CAROLINE MARTIN, ... by Birmingham Mail (England)
 
 
 
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