Shipwrecks of the Goodwin Sands

192pp with numerous black and white illustrations. In laminated card covers (very slightly rubbed at edges). Internally neat, clean and bright. Squarely and firmly bound. At the point at which the English Channel narrows to less than twenty miles is a series of sandbanks known as the Goodwin Sands. Seafarers have feared them for hundreds of years. This book, a revised and updated edition of the first detailed study published in 1977, details the shipwrecks around the Sands and includes incidents from the early 16th century to the present day, such as the Great Storm of 1703 in which four major men o'war and some 1190 lives were lost.