The Deutschland incident refers to two separate incidents involving ships named Deutschland.

The Deutschland incident of 1902

The first "Deutschland incident" refers an incident in March 1902 with a German passenger steamer from the Hamburg America Line named SS Deutschland. During a famous passage over the Atlantic, where the ship was carrying Prince Henry, the brother of the Kaiser back to Europe from a highly publicized visit to the United States, the steamer was prevented from using her Slaby-d'Arco system of wireless telegraphy as the Marconi radio stations refused its radio traffic through their nets and blocked the rival system. Prince Henry, who tried to send wireless messages to both the US and Germany, was outraged. The Hamburg America Line was established in Hamburg, Germany in 1847 under the name Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft (HAPAG) for shipping across the Atlantic Ocean. ... The first Deutschland was a passenger liner by the Hamburg-Amerika line of Germany. ... Marconi may be: People Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937) Corporations: Alenia Marconi Systems GEC Marconi Marconi plc (formerly GEC) Marconi Electronic Systems Matra Marconi Space This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Marconi shore stations refused, except in the case of emergency, to accept messages from ships operating equipment from other sources. This brought up a number of questions of fairness -- competitors claimed the Marconi companies were trying to set up a worldwide monopoly, while Marconi charged that his competitors were little more than parasites, wanting to take advantage of the investment his company had made in setting up the expensive shore stations.[1]

The Deutschland incident of 1937

The second Deutschland incident refers to an incident during the Spanish Civil War: On May 29, 1937, the Republican air force attacked Nationalist air bases and the port of Ibiza, the German pocket battleship Deutschland, which was part of the non-intervention blockade fleet entered the area of the port to threaten the Republican planes. Two Russian pilots, Captain Anton Progrorin and Lieutenant Wassily Schmidt, dropped their bombs on the Deutschland, causing severe damage on the ship and killing 31 seamen. The following day German forces bombed the Republican held city of Almería to repress Republican air attacks on the Deutschland. Because of the Deutschland incident, Germany and Italy left the meetings of the Non-intervention committee. The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer shelled the port and the city of Almería with 200 grenades, causing 19 deaths, 55 wounded, and destroying 150 houses. German and Italian battleships were concentrated in the Mediterranean Sea next to Spain and they are starting to take an more active role in the supporting of Nationalist forces. This article is about the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ibiza or Eivissa is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea (), belonging to Spain. ... The Deutschland (later re-named Lützow), was the lead ship of a heavy cruiser class that served in the German Kriegsmarine before and during World War II. The ship was originally classified as an armored ship (Panzerschiff) by Germany, and referred to as a pocket battleship by the British. ... Almería is the capital of the province of Almería in Spain. ... Admiral Scheer was a Deutschland class heavy cruiser (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after Admiral Reinhard Scheer. ...