Deutschland was a passenger steamship of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line, built by Caird & Co. of Greenock, Scotland in 1866.
At 05:00 on 6 December 1875 the ship, under Captain Brickenstein, ran aground in a blizzard onto Kentish Knock, a sandbar at the mouth of the River Thames.
Most passengers died of exposure and hypothermia in winter snowstorm conditions before the steam paddle tug Liverpool could help the next day on 7 December. A total of 157 passengers and crew died.
The incident is commemorated in the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Wreck of the Deutschland". The poem, in part, centers on a group of German Franciscan nuns - the Salzkotten Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus - who also lost their lives in the incident.
See also
the grave of the (dutch) nuns is found in leyton, london
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