Crown estate owns seabed of treacherous sandbank off Kent that has entombed more than 2,000 shipwrecks Over centuries the treacherous Goodwin Sands off Kent – known as the great “ship swallower” – has ...
Dr Diana Hirst reminds us that a huge graveyard lies in this sandbank. Plus a letter from Paul Tothill on the crown estate’s ownership of Britain’s seabeds Re your report (‘Running riot through graves ...
Three people have been rescued after their yacht ran aground on a notorious sandbank in Kent. A volunteer crew from RNLI Walmer lifeboat station was called out at 06.57 GMT on Monday after the ...
Crossing the Goodwin Sands. More than 2000 ships have foundered and sunk on the Goodwin Sands, a perilous sandbar that lies six miles of the Kent coast. Voices of the Sands is a dramatic cantata for ...
Three people have been saved after their yacht dramatically ran aground six miles off the east Kent coast. Volunteers at the RNLI were called in to rescue the group on board the 11-metre vessel which ...