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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 ...
The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval engagement during the First World War that took place on 24 January 1915 near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet). The British had intercepted and decoded German wireless transmissions, gaining advance knowledge that a ...
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 ...
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
The flooded land is known as the Dogger Littoral. [3] Doggerland was named after the Dogger Bank (which in turn was named after 17th-century Dutch fishing boats called doggers), [4] which formed a highland region that became submerged later than the rest of Doggerland. [1] [2]
The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval engagement during the First World War that took place on 24 January 1915 near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the Kaiserliche Marine (High Seas Fleet).
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]