New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-08

shoals of the mouth of the Thames and the Deutsch-
land must have become involved in it and unable
10 see the hghtships. Oelrichs & Co. knew nothing
about her cargo the number of her but
they thought that there could not have been at this
time OF the year, more than dozen cabin passengers
and not more than 100 steerage. The Deutschland
usually carried miscellaneous cargo valued at
ABOUT S2oooOO, and 1t was supposed that she left
Bremen nearly full. The total value of the vessel
and cargo would be about $450,0 900.
The fret intimauon of the disaster received at the
office of the agents through the press dispatch
nom London, which stated that the Deutschland
was believed 10 have gone ashore somewhere in the
North Sea- as n boat belonging TO her had drifted
ashore nj Sheerness, with the Quartermaster of the
Deutschland, named Aug. Beck, and two dead bodies
on board. The boat had been adrft 80 hours
Beck said the Deutschland had struck a sandbank
In the North Sea- One boat had left the ship before
that In which he escaped. He believed that the
vessel was a total wreck and that $50 persons had
persisted. On receiving this information, Messrs.
Oelrichs 4 Co. telegraphed to Bremen for list of
the passengers of the Deutschland and to their
agent at southampton for details of the disaster
and the name of the captain. About $50 p. m. they
received the following dispatch from Bremen:
Deutschland grounded on Galoper Sands Admiralty
tug left for assistance.
Soon afterward the following dispatch was re-
ceived, dated London afternoon:
Deutschland ashore Long Sands. CAPTAIN and part
OF crew saved About 90 OF crew and Messengers
drowned. KELLER
third dispatch. received about the same time
from Southampton, and dated 1850 p, H.. as fol-
lows:
and crew reported downed Capt Brickenstein and
part of passengers and landed Harwch Tuesday
afternoon Further particulars wanting.
No further news was resolved at the office until
Al 8 p. m, when the following dispatch came from
Bremen:
Deutschland on Kentish Knock Crew and passengers
landed at Harwch Fifty persons supposed lost Grew,
LLOYD.
The contradictions in these kilograms ne TO the
place where the disaster occurred caused some
ment. They Supposed to arise from the fact
that all OF the shoals mentioned within u
miles from each other. Mr.. Schwab, the agent
in charge at Oelrichs d Co.'s office, stated that II
more probable that Kentisb Knock was the
scene of the calamity than Galloper Shoal or Long
Sands. In any case the Deutschland must have been
from 20 to 20 miles west Of her proper course There
is a lightship ut kcntish Knock and one at Gaoper
shoal. The latter carries catOptrc light, and was
established in 1903 There is no ghtship at Long
Sands which il midway between the kcntish Knock
ana Sunk Lightshps and about five miles distant
from each. From Kentish Knock TO Harwic&, where
the passengers and who escaped are reported TO
have landed the distance is about % miles.
The shoals off the mouth Of the Thames are con-
sidered very dangerous in f0ggy weather and are
dotted all over with light ships. They extend 100
miles north and sOnth from Goodwin Sands 70 Cab
bard Shoals are from 20 TO 90 miles wide and are
composed Of hard sand banks. The water upon them
varies in depth from 90 or 80 fathoms TO only six
feet The Galloper Shoal, on which the Deutsch-
land was first reported to have struck, il the most
dangerous of all. II is about 90 miles northeast
from Sheerness, and IN latitude OF 10 NJ, long,
tude 10 SO L. Kentish Knock and Long
Lands are also very much dreaded. They
are about 12 miles west Of Galloper shoals,
The steamers of the North German Lloyd Company
have before touched the shoals Of this coast but
have always got off without damage until now.
Many sailing vessels are yearly wrecked on the
sands but no steamers smiling between Europe and
this country have ever before been wrecked there.
The agents # this line say that no passenger has
ever before been lost from Of their steamers dur
ing the 13 years that the line has been running,
and they have had only two ships wrecked. One OF
these was the Union a sister ship of heDeutschand,
built az the same time and place, which went ashore
on the rocks eff tho north point of Scotland, near
Pentland Firth, in 1870. This disaster was caused
bv a fog which concealed the lights on shore. No
lives were lost At that time, account
Of the FrancO-Gernan war. the Channel route had
TO be abandoned for the more dangerous one around
Scotland The other lose was that of the King
William a small steamer, which, on voyage from
New-YOrk to Bremen in 1872, went ashore on the
coast of Holland. near the month Of the Schedt and
became a total wreck, but no lives were lost'