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The Lady Luvibond sails again

On 13 February 1748, an enemy ship allegedly forced a schooner bound for Opporto, the Lady Luvibond, aground onto the Goodwin Sands, killing everyone aboard. This story is refuted by another more romantic tale — that the first mate was in love with the new bride of the captain, Simon Reed, and deliberately ran the ship aground in a red haze of jealousy. There is much more detail to this story, which makes it, perhaps, a more likely account of the true situation.

The pair had only just been married and Captain Simon Reed was reluctant to part from his sweetheart, despite the fact it was considered unlucky to carry a woman aboard a vessel. But not only was his new bride on board, but also a fair number of family members too. Newly married men rarely value superstition more highly than passion and long nights of lovemaking, so the Captain decided to flout tradition.

The first mate decided he must wreak vengeance before he exploded with rage, and so he perpetrated this terrible crime upon the Captain, his wife and all the innocent men who sailed with them. As a result, every fifty years, the tragedy is reenacted by a spectral manifestation amidst the swirling mists that settle over the sands, while all around the sea heaves as though at the mercy of a violent storm. However, it seems at last the evil vibrations have been stilled, for the ship : as expected in the year 1998 and the spectators who stood along the shorcfii disappointed.

Other ships too, have been reported to have run aground on the sands, including paddle steamer, whose spectre was sighted in 1974 by the East Goodwin's lightship. Ev was found which showed a paddle steamer actually did come to grief on the sands; all on t» lost their lives. Other fatalities reenacted are a liner, Montrose, and a man-of-war, Shrewsbury.S.S. Watertown | Zennor |