Deutschland (1866)

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For other ships of the same name, see Deutschland.

Deutschland was a passenger steamship of the Norddeutscher Lloyd line, built by Caird & Co. of Greenock in 1866.

At 05:00 on 6 December 1875 the ship ran aground in a blizzard onto Kentish Knock, a sandbar at the mouth of the Thames. Most passengers died of exposure before the steam paddle tug Liverpool could help 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".