Master Lost When Goodwin Lightship Sinks Riven in Halves
(Australian and A'.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. Steaming slowly through a fog off the Goodwin Sands, the Ellerman Line’s steamer City of York, 7,844 tons, cut in halves and sank the Gull lightship, whose master, Captain Williams, is missing. Six of the lightship’s crew were picked up. The Gull lightship is one of four
such vessels that guard these dangerous sands on the east coast ol Kent—the scene of many shipping di» asters. The other lightships are the South Goodwin, the North GoodwiD and the East Goodwin. At low' w'ater the Goodwin Sand« rise some feet above sea level, while at high water they are 15ft below the sea. The flashing lights of the anchored vessels are ordinarily visible for a dis tance of 12 miles.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 9
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138Master Lost When Goodwin Lightship Sinks Riven in Halves Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 616, 19 March 1929, Page 9
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