7,000-TON CARGO SHIP ON GOODWIN SANDS Walmer, Kent. At 10.10 on the morning of Tuesday the 10th of September, 1963, Deal coastguard told the honorary secretary that an unidentified cargo vessel was aground on the Goodwin Sands mid-way between the South and East Goodwin lightvessels. The life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 10.17 and reached the casualty at 11.5. Five hours ebb had run and there were light airs from the south-south-east and a slight sea. When the life-boat came alongside the casualty, s.s. M. Bingul, 7,097 tons, in ballast from Spain to Newcastle, it was learnt that her master was a former salvage tug skipper and would try to get the ship off himself with a kedge anchor and his own power. The life-boat stood by at his request and 2^ hours before high water the master managed to refloat his ship and proceed slowly on his voyage. The life-boat returned to her station at twenty minutes to three after being on service for five hours..