SHIPS AGROUND
Twenty-one ships have run aground since the war on that .10-mile fangshaped mariners' bogey, the Goodwin Sands. This toll has been taken despite all Admiralty efforts, including regular surveys. special pilots and coastguards, marked buoys and lightships. If a ship is running too close, they even fire a gun. One foreign skipper who ran aground at midnight was asked i£ he'cl heard the gun. “Oh,” he replied, “I thought that was for 12 o'clock.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 5
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76SHIPS AGROUND Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 5
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