A Long Cold Wait on the Deutschland (1875)

Description

The following finding was reported to the British Board of Trade in April 1876: “The loss of the vessel was due to her having got ahead of her reckoning owing to the disregard by the master of the force and direction of the tide. They think he ought, from the warning he received, to have known that his ship was out of her position, and knowing this, it would have been his duty to have put her about, and returned slowly to his course. For not doing so, the court think Captain Brickenstein was greatly to blame.”
Ship Name: Deutschland

Year Built: 1866

Tonnage: 2898

Ship Type: Iron Hulled Screw Steamer

Nationality: German

Year Wrecked: 1875

Location Wrecked: Kentish Knock

Reason For Wreck: Went Off Course in a Snow Storm

Lives Lost: Estimated to be between 100-150

Sources:

https://books.google.com/books?id=L3cBAAAAQAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&dq=deutschland+shipwreck+1875&source=gbs_navlinks_s

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162647663?searchTerm=shipwreck%20narrative

https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3502772/3502777/30/deutschland