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    51°16′25″N 1°30′30″E / 51.27361°N 1.50833°E / 51.27361; 1.50833 Goodwin Sands is a 10-mile-long (16 km) sandbank at the southern end of the North Sea...
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  • Battle of the Goodwin Sands may refer to: Battle of the Narrow Seas, also known as Battle of the Goodwin Sands, 3–4 October 1602, in the Anglo-Spanish...
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    The naval Battle of Dover , fought on 19 May 1652 (29 May 1652 Gregorian calendar), was the first engagement of the First Anglo-Dutch War between the navies...
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    blown hundreds of miles off-course, and over 1,000 sea men died on the Goodwin Sands alone. News bulletins of casualties and damage were sold all over England...
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    Ruytingen Pass, and headed towards the North Goodwin Lightship before heading south around the Goodwin Sands to Dover. The route was safest from surface...
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  • use on 6 March 1851, when the brig Mary White became trapped on the Goodwin Sands during a severe gale blowing from the north. A ballad was written to...
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    Bay, which was once used to warn ships approaching the nearby Goodwin Sands. Goodwin Sands is a 10-mile-long (16 km) sandbank at the southern end of the...
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  • The Guttenburg was a German brig of 170 tons that was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on 1 January 1860, resulting in the death of 26 of the 31 people aboard...
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  • unknown): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, Kent. Jonas (Flag unknown): The ship was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands. Unknown ship (Flag unknown): The...
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    coast, in 1736, with others following at Owers Bank (1788) and the Goodwin Sands (1793). While the Admiralty opposed the 1802 Sunk lightvessel, claiming...
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