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Explore the 1904 Dogger Bank Incident, a massive error by the Imperial Russian Navy that nearly plunged Russia and the United Kingdom into war
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In October 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian Baltic Fleet—sailing through the North Sea towards the Far East
—was plagued by high paranoia and fears of encountering Japanese torpedo boats. This anxiety was so intense that Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky had already ordered his inexperienced crews to be hyper-vigilant
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On the night of October 21st, 1904, operating in dark and foggy conditions at the Dogger Bank fishing area
, Russian lookouts spotted several British fishing trawlers from Hull. Mistaking these civilian vessels for enemy torpedo boats, the Russians opened fire, unleashing a barrage of shells without verifying their targets. The attack, which lasted around twenty minutes, sank the British trawler Crane, killed its captain and boatswain, and wounded several other fishermen. In a bizarre twist, the chaos also caused the Russians to accidentally fire upon their own cruiser, the Aurora, killing a sailor and a Russian Orthodox priest
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The fleet then sailed away without attempting to help the survivors
. This event, known also as the North Sea Incident or the "Russian Outrage," caused an international outcry in Britain, where newspapers called the Russians "pirates". The UK ordered 28 battleships to prepare for action. War was averted after Russia apologized and agreed to an international investigation, eventually paying £66,000 in compensation to the fishermen and their families. The delay caused by the incident also ultimately contributed to Russia’s significant defeat at the Battle of Tsushima in 1905
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