Marconi in East Kent

had had fifty such copies made but refused to pay any royalty to the Marconi
Company.
In 1900 The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Company changed its name to
Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company; the company's capital accounted for
100,000 stock options, each worth £1; Marconi was appointed Technical
Director and his cousin, Jameson Davis, Financial Director.
Marconi’s connection to Dover did not end with the conclusion of the Fort
Burgoyne tests however, and while the series of tests at Salisbury ultimately
achieved a range of over thirty miles to Bath, with the support of Post Office,
War Office and Admiralty representatives there were to be similar
collaborations with experiments at the South Foreland lighthouse, near Dover.
The Corporation of Trinity House – who are responsible for all lighthouses and
lightships - were looking for a reliable system of communicating with their
lightships and off-shore lighthouses and were greatly intrigued by Marconi’s
innovative wireless telegraphy.
In December 1898, Marconi’s assistant, George Kemp, went out to the East
Goodwin Lightship located 12 miles offshore and guarding the notorious
Goodwin Sands a 10-mile-long Sandbank located at the southern end of the
North Sea that lies between 0.5m (1ft 8in) above the low water mark to around
3m (10ft) below low water, except for one channel, known as Kellet Gut and
which reaches to a depth of 20m (66ft), the Goodwins are the resting place of
more than 2,000 wrecked ships.
Marconi meanwhile remained on land, close to the lighthouse successfully
recording On Christmas Eve 1898, the first ever ship-to-shore radio
transmission.