Steam ship Deutschland wrecked during a storm 1875

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)

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