Grounding off the English coast

The Deutschland had sailed from Bremerhaven on 4 December 1875 with 123 emigrants bound for New York via Southampton. Distress rockets were seen on the morning of 6 December by the Sunk lightship, which tried through the day to attract the attention of passing shipping without success. Charles Butt QC later noted the ship had lain on a dangerous sand close to the English coast for thirty hours before any assistance came. The legacy record places the grounding off Kent, but no supplied passage names Kent; the retrieved evidence states only 'close to the English coast'.