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4 unusual facts about Dogger Bank incident


Battle of Dogger Bank

The Dogger Bank incident (1904), 21 October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, when Russian sailors wrongly opened fire on British fishing boats

Dogger Bank incident

Under diplomatic pressure, the Russian government agreed to investigate the incident, and Rozhestvenski was ordered to dock in Vigo, Spain, where he left behind those officers considered responsible (as well as at least one officer who had been critical of him).

More serious losses to both sides were only avoided by the extremely low quality of Russian gunnery, with the battleship Oryol reportedly firing more than 500 shells without hitting anything.

Mikhail Taube

From 1904 to 1905 he has been involved as a legal representative of Russia at the Paris international commission of inquiry on the case of Dogger Bank incident, along with Admiral Fyodor Dubasov played a big role in the successful defense of Russian interests in this complex case.



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