Shipwrecks, Sailors & Lost Souls

This series of 13 podcasts feature interviews with 12 local people with experiences of living near and working on the Goodwin Sands.

Shipwrecks, Sailors & Lost Souls is a history podcast hosted by Goodwin Sands Conservation Trust, with 13 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Goodwin Sands Conservation Trust hosts Shipwrecks, Sailors & Lost Souls, a history show with 13 episodes published.

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  Episode #13

  Episode 13: Goodwin Sands Radiogram

  Feb 4, 20261h 10mS1

  <p > Episode 13: Goodwin Sands Radiogram<br /> <br /> This is an episode of the Goodwin Sands Radiogram, a podcast documentary series separate from the oral history project that this series has been so far. The Radiogram series was conceived by our producer Ben Horner back in 2016, and is still putting out occasional episodes as time allows. </p> <p > Like the oral history project it looks to tell the stories of those who live and work around the Kent coast, but has a distinctly different flavour. The Radiogram exists is a half-fantasy radio programme, broadcast across the waves of the English Channel f...

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  Episode #12

  Episode 12: Robert Peacock

  Jan 28, 202627 minS1

  <p > Robert Peacock is a recreational diver of some 50 years' experience, 40 of which have been spent studying the Goodwin Sands and its many wrecks of various descriptions. His explorations over and around the Sands inspired him to attain a master's degree in maritime archaeology to better advance his research activities and understand the nature, history and context of the vessels and artefacts discovered.</p> <p > In this podcast he discusses issues around the identification and preservation of HMS Stirling Castle, a 1679 warship lost to the Sands in 1703 and rediscovered in 1979, the German Dornier 17 bomber raised in 2013 after 70 years submerged, and...

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  Episode #11

  Episode 11: John Nichols (part 2)

  Jan 21, 202619 minS1

  <p > Episode 11: John Nichols (part 2)<br /> </p> <p > John Nichols is the chairman of Thanet Fisherman's Association, and Vice-Chairman of Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. He has spent his life as a commercial fisherman working out of Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Folkestone, Scarborough, and Whitby.</p> <p > In this second part of the interview with John he discusses his work with Trinity House in the automation project to modernise the light vessels in the Channel and the North Sea, including those guarding the Goodwin Sands. He talks about his working relationship with the light vessel men and bartering supplies...

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  Episode #10

  Episode 10: John Nichols (part 1)

  Jan 14, 202624 minS1

  <p > John Nichols is the chairman of Thanet Fisherman's Association, and Vice-Chairman of Kent and Essex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority. He has spent his life as a commercial fisherman working out of Broadstairs, Ramsgate, Folkestone, Scarborough, and Whitby.</p> <p > Here he talks about his childhood, as he puts it, "making a nuisance of himself" at Ramsgate harbour helping the boatmen moored there, building his own boat as an apprentice shipbuilder in Whitstable, and taking visitors on trips to the North Goodwin Light Vessel and the Goodwin Sands. He also mentions his part in the rescue of the Ross...

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  Episode #9

  Episode 9: David Skardon

  Jan 7, 202622 minS1

  <p > David Skardon is a fisherman and boatman who grew up in Brewer Street in Deal in the 1940s and 50s, son of a fishmonger. As a child he would help the local boat owners wind their boats up to the beach on the winches for a penny and tuppence a week (a good wage given that Wagon Wheels were a ha'penny at the time).</p> <p > David talks about his childhood on Deal beach and how it forged for him a life on the water, how at fourteen he was the youngest ever holder of a boating licence, why...

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