There is so much to find out and learn about the fascinating but notorious Sands and we have tried to collate as much information here as we can.
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Research Documents
Law
- Sentencing for Heritage Crime, Historic England 2019
- Weaknesses in the Law Protecting the UK’s Remarkable Underwater Cultural Heritage: The Need for Modernisation and Reform. Martin-Gane 2019
Marine Conservation Zone
- Goodwin Sands MCZ Factsheet
- Marine Conservation Zones & Marine Licensing, Marine Management Organisation 2013
- The Goodwin Sands Marine Conservation Zone Designation Order 2019
RAF and Naval losses in both World Wars
- Allied & RAF aircrew killed in the Goodwin Sands area 27th May – 14th November 1940
- Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War database – MAST
- Images of RAF aircrew lost around the Goodwin Sands 1
- Images of RAF aircrew lost around the Goodwin Sands 2
- Images of RAF aircrew lost around the Goodwin Sands 3
- MAST Royal Navy Loss List
- RAF aircrew & Trinity House personnel missing around the Goodwin Sands 1940 & 1954
- Royal Navy Wooden Shipwrecks Database
- Shipping lost around the Goodwin Sands during both World Wars
South Goodwin Light Vessel Disaster
- Account from Ronald Murton, sole survivor
- Journey of South Goodwin Light Vessel during the storm
- South Goodwin Light Vessel – Illustrated. London News 4.12.1954
- South Goodwin Light Vessel – Illustrated London New 11.12.1954
- Lighthouses@Lighthouse Digest … Lightship Tragedy
- South Goodwin Lightship Disaster, 26:27th November 1954 from History of Manston Airfield
Submarines
Surveys and Studies
- Archaeological Review of Geophysical Data of Goodwin Sands, 3H Consulting 2020
- Goodwin Sands Hydrographic Study, RL Cloet 1953
- Goodwin Sands Multi Beam survey Introduction, Pascoe Archaeology 2017
- Goodwin Sands and the Downs: Multi-Beam Surveys of the Designated Wrecks, Pascoe Archaeology 2017
- Marine Geophysics Data Acquisition, Processing & Interprestion, Historic England 2013
- Marine Magnetometer Processing – Pete Holt 2019
- Ships and Boats; Prehistory to Present, English Heritage 2017
- Wrecks in Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, The Goodwin Sands and Kent Coast
Wrecks
- GAD 23 Advice Report Historic England January 2021
- Luray Victory & the SS Ira.Kreuger & Dix 2017
- HMS Northumberland Archaeological Assessment 2018
- Protected Wreck Sites, Historic England
- Protected Wreck Sites at Risk – English Heritage 2008
- Restoration Archaeological Report, Wessex Archaeology 2006
- Rooswijk: Conservation Statement & Management Plan, Mark Dunkley 2009
HMS Stirling Castle
- Future of the Stirling Castle Archive, Maritime Archaeology Trust, 2014
- HMS Stirling Castle Conservation Statement & Management Plan 2008
- Stirling Castle grapes
- Stirling Castle’s Prince Rupert Demi-Cannon by Dr Doug McElvogue
- Publication: The Stirling Castle, a 70-gun ship Lost in the Great Storm of 1703 – Archaeological Investigations 1979 – 2000 edited by Julian Wakefield produced by the Maritime Archaeology Trust 2020 RRP £65