The Dogger Bank incident 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 Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats and fired on them, also firing on each other in the chaos of the melée.
British postcard depicting the Russian warships firing on the fishing vessels
The Aurora, a Russian cruiser attacked by other Russian ships during the incident.
Damaged trawlers after return to St Andrews Dock, Hull
Fisherman's Memorial
The Baltic Fleet is the fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea.
A modern replica of the fleet's first vessel, the 24-gun three-masted frigate Shtandart
The Battle of Gangut.
Sailors of the Baltic Fleet ashore at Nossi Bé, December 1904.
The naval St. Nicholas Cathedral in St. Petersburg is the main church of the Russian Navy. Its outside is covered with plaques to Russian sailors/officers lost at sea.