the novelist Jane Austen. He described the lighthouse in some detail and also gave some impressions of the island: On 28 February 1812, the 16-gun brig was wrecked on Anholt, but without loss of life, as the British garrison on the island were able to rescue the crew. The British held Anholt until the Treaty of Kiel, which was signed on 15 January 1814, ended the war and returned the islands to Denmark. In the 1940s a British visitor heard children reciting a verse which they did not understand the meaning of: "". The ditty, it turned out, had been a nursery rhyme brought to the island by British soldiers during the Napoleonic Wars. World War I Denmark remained neutral during the war and neither side ventured into the Kattegat until late in the war when the British laid a minefield in the path of German merchantmen. During the operation the mines managed to sink 10 German trawlers off Anholt. World War II There were several World War II sinkings off Anholt. On 11 April 1940, the British submarine torpedoed and sank the German steamer (2,593grt) south of Anholt. Sealion fired two torpedoes, one of which found its mark. On 1 May 1940, the British submarine , (Lt.Cdr. R.J. Burch, RN), torpedoed and sank the German troop transport (6,097 GRT) and torpedoed and damaged the German troop transport (8,580 GRT) in the Kattegat about north of Anholt. Bahia Castillo reached port but was declared a total loss. On 20 May 1940, the troop transport SS Batavier III, owned by Wm.H. van Müller & Co., hit a mine and sank northwest of Anholt. On 21 April 1945, British bombers sank Ostmark (ex-Côte d'Argent, launched 1932 and 3,047 GRT). On 5 May 1945, a RAF bomber sank the . The submarine was on the surface with three other submarines when the attack occurred. The Germans shot down one of the British bombers; all its crew were lost. All of the crew of U-534 escaped the submarine, but three died of exposure or lung damage in surfacing; lifeboats from a lightship in the vicinity rescued the 49 survivors. On 25 August 1993, U-534 was pulled to the surface of the Kattegat Sea, northeast of Anholt Island. After being housed at a museum that later closed, the submarine was moved to the Woodside Ferry Terminal in Liverpool for an exhibition on U-Boats that opened