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GOODWIN SANDS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 240 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOODWIN SANDS , a dangerous See also:line of shoals at the entrance to the Strait of See also:Dover from the See also:North See also:Sea, about 6 m. from the See also:Kent See also:coast of See also:England, from which they are separated by the anchorage of the See also:Downs. For this they See also:form a shelter. They are partly exposed at See also:low See also:water, but the sands are shifting, and in spite of See also:lights and See also:bell-buoys the Goodwins are frequently the See also:scene of wrecks, while attempts to erect a lighthouse or See also:beacon have failed. Tradition finds in the Goodwins the remnant of an See also:island called Lomea, which belonged to See also:Earl See also:Godwine in the first See also:half of the rith See also:century, and was afterwards submerged, when the funds devoted to its See also:protection were diverted to build the See also:church See also:steeple at See also:Tenterden (q.v.). Four lightships See also:mark the limits of the sands, and also See also:signal by rockets to the lifeboat stations on the coast when any See also:vessel is in See also:distress on the sands. Perhaps the most terrible See also:catastrophe recorded here was the See also:wreck of thirteen See also:ships of See also:war during a See also:great See also:storm in See also:November 1703.

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