Dogger Bank incident

When

21 Oct 1904

Kind

Event

Coordinates

54.72° N, 2.77° E

Description

Russo-Japanese War: Dogger Bank incident – The Russian Baltic Fleet fires on British trawlers it mistakes for Japanese torpedo boats, in the North Sea.

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1904 Russian attack on British trawlers

The Dogger Bank incident occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, 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 Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats and fired on them, also firing on each other in the chaos of the melée.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Doggerbank-Zwischenfall kommt es zu einem versehentlichen Beschuss englischer Fischerboote durch die russische Flotte”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incident du Dogger Bank”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Гулльский инцидент: Корабли Второй тихоокеанской эскадры обстреляли британские рыболовецкие суда, приняв их за японские миноносцы”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “北海事件 (1904年)，在日俄戰爭期間，俄國波羅的海艦隊調往遠東作戰，在濃霧中誤將英國拖網漁船當作日本戰艦攻擊。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “日露戦争: ドッガーバンク事件: 日本に向けて北海を航行中だったバルチック艦隊がイギリスのトロール船を日本の魚雷艇と誤認し砲撃”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page