Case file · Folklore / legend
The Lady Lovibond
A schooner said to have been wrecked on the Goodwin Sands off Kent on 13 February 1748 and to reappear there as a ghost ship every fifty years.
1748 CE · 51.29, 1.54 · status: legend
The account
The story says the captain, Simon Reed, was celebrating his marriage with a cruise, despite the superstition against women on board.
The sceptical view
No contemporary record of the ship or the wreck has been found.