Light on the Goodwins
HE story of the Goodwin Sands, where so many ships have been wrecked ever since history recalls that ships sailed that way, made interesting material, well presented by the BBC. The difficulty of presenting in coherent and palatable form the various episodes of shipwrecks and attempts to’ combat the menace was successfully overcome by putting the narrative in the mouths of seamen, lightship-men, and rescue workers. The respect with which the Goodwins: are regarded’ even to-day is easily understandable after hearing this account of calamity and sudden death, end of the fruitless attempts to erect lighthouses on the sands, and one is also ready to believe that the treasure supposedly buried under the sand is likely to remain there to the end of time. As a relief from these too recent accounts of tragedy, the story of ‘Earl Godwine, after whom the sands were named, provides a little interesting speculation. Just exactly what did the Earl do to draw such a deadly curse upon his lands? And since even the most potent of
curses has its antidote, can mod science discover the means to lift it After all, 900 years is a long time for any curse to function with all its youth. ful vigour.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 458, 2 April 1948, Page 8
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209Light on the Goodwins New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 458, 2 April 1948, Page 8
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