Steam ship 'Deutschland' 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). Engraving from "The Sea" by F Whymper (London, c1890). Transport. Shipping. Shipwreck. Religion. Christian. Roman Catholic. Religious persecution. Literature. English. Poetry.

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