The East Goodwin Lightship Slips Her Anchor

1961 , East Goodwin Sands (Other)

Anglia Television news footage of the East Goodwin Light Vessel in extremely rough weather.

Shots Of The East Goodwin Lightship in very rough seas, after she had slipped her anchor and drifted dangerously close to the Goodwin Sands. On board the lightship, the crew wave to the camera.

Keywords

Lightships

Background Information

The Goodwin Sands is a notorious sandbank, hundreds upon hundreds of ships have struck and sunk on the Goodwins. The sunken wrecks are various from seventeenth to twentieth century warships to merchant vessels to Dutch East Indiamen. On the 18th July 1940, German bombers sank the East Goodwins Lightship.

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The East Goodwin Lightship Slips Her Anchor

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