A wreck

So there it is as we are passing over an old naval graveyard - the Wreck of the Deutschland. A nice smooth lean ship but a bit shallow in the draught, though the shipbuilders that laid her up at Kiel always said she was built for speed. A nice ship that was oft seen on the Northern Runs to the Hanseatic ports and then in later life on the runs to Saudi Arabia. Shame she went down at the end of her life with all hands on deck. The captain was a nice enough sort of chap, Captain JR Ewing O'Shaughnessy, but he was from Hannover and into all the usual trappings of German high careers, chiefly duelling with swords, so a bit of an old-fashioned aristo. Yes a sad day for General Blucher of the Prussian Home Guard and his uffiziellen such as Captain Siegen, and Captain Shallenberg, when they lost all overboard in the Wreck of the Deutschland. Shame. JR RIP.