The Downs

As The Downs, a territory in the area of the English Channel between the Goodwin Sands and the eastern Kent is referred to the confluence of the North Sea in the English Channel.

The Downs are upstream cities Deal and Ramsgate. They are protected from the west by the mainland and from the east by the Goodwin Sands and are therefore traditionally a popular anchorage. From the 17th to the 20th century, the Downs served as anchorage of the Royal Navy and in times of war as a rallying point for convoys.

To date, however, comes from the Middle Ages as a " swallower of shippes " ( "Ship Ever eaters " ) infamous Goodwin Sands is a significant risk of. In storms from West South West / Southwest, the Downs repeatedly proved to be the case for ships, as they were driven by the wind on the Goodwins. 1703 The worst disaster of this kind occurred in the so-called Great Storm, during which four lying in the Downs anchor line ships of the Royal Navy and an unknown number of merchant ships in the Goodwin Sands perished. Alone in the sinking of four ships of the line than 1,000 sailors died.

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• North Sea
• Geography (Kent)