Heroes of the Goodwin Sands

A series of eyewitness narratives recounts dramatic lifeboat rescues around the treacherous Goodwin Sands and the Downs, blending technical descriptions of shifting sandbanks, swatches, and seamanship with vivid accounts of specific wrecks and launches. The author, a long-serving maritime chaplain and lifeboat secretary, details procedures, boat handling, and the courage of Deal boatmen, describes storm behavior and anchored fleets, and organizes the material into chapters that focus on particular incidents, supported by photographs and diagrams.