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Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about 100 kilometres (62 mi) off the east coast of England. During the last ice age, the bank was part of a large landmass connecting mainland Europe and the British Isles , now known as Doggerland .
British postcard depicting the Russian warships firing on the fishing vessels. The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook civilian British fishing trawlers from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for ...
Dogger may refer to: Dogger Bank, a large shallow area in the North Sea between Britain and Denmark; Dogger Bank incident, the Russian attack on British fishermen in 1904 at the Dogger Bank area in the North Sea. Dogger (boat), a type of ketch rigged fishing boat working the Dogger Bank in the seventeenth century; Dogger, a book by Shirley Hughes
English: Russian Outrage on the Hull fishing fleet on 22 October 1904, otherwise known as the 'Dogger Bank incident', the 'North Sea Incident', or the 'Incident of Hull', showing shell-damaged returned trawlers in St Andrews Dock, Hull.
Kamchatka played a role in causing the Dogger Bank incident, where the Second Pacific Squadron opened fire on unarmed British fishing trawlers. At about 21:00 on the night of October 21, 1904, Kamchatka radioed that it was being attacked by eight Japanese destroyers or torpedo boats. [1]
However, the French had to hurry because a large English squadron, under Admiral John Benbow, was aware of the French presence and was looking for them. The battle started on 19:00, when Jean Bart on the Maure attacked the Dutch flagship, the Raadhuis-van-Haarlem . the Dutch fought valiantly for three hours until their captain was killed.
Battle of Dogger Bank (1781), during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War between a British squadron and a Dutch squadron; Dogger Bank incident, a 1904 incident during the Russo-Japanese War, when Russian sailors wrongly opened fire on British fishing boats; Battle of Dogger Bank (1915), during World War I, between battlecruisers of the Royal Navy and ...
The Dogger Bank incident occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Russian Baltic Fleet mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for an Imperial Japanese Navy force and fired on them. Three British fishermen died and a number were wounded.