The Goodwin Sands is a 10-mile long sandbank in the English Channel lying 6 miles off the Deal coast. The area consists of approximately 25m of fine sand resting on an Upper Chalk platform belonging to the same geological feature that incorporates the White Cliffs of Dover. The banks lie between 8m and 15m beneath the surface, depending on location, since tides and currents are constantly shifting the shoals. More than 2,000 ships are believed to have been wrecked upon the Goodwin Sands.

 

However, for ghost hunters the Goodwin Sands are connected witht the fate of one particular vessel - the Lady Lovibond. The schooner was allegedly deliberately run onto the sands, killing all on board on 13th February 1748. Since that time, every 50 years on the anniversary of the tragedy, it is said that the ghost ship will appear. However, it was not sighted in 1998...