Steam ship 'Deutschland' which was wrecked on the sandbank off the Thames Estuary known as the Kentish Knock during a storm on the night of 6th to 7th December 1875. Among those on board who were lost were five Franciscan nuns, refugees from Germany's anti-Catholic Falk Laws. The English Jesuit poet Gerard commemorated the event in his poem "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (1876). Transport. Shipping. Shipwreck. Religion. Chirstian. Roman Catholic. Religious persecution. Literature. English. Poetry.

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