Battle of Dogger Bank
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The Battle of Dogger Bank refers to a number of naval battles fought near and over the Dogger Bank in the North Sea:
- The Battle of Dogger Bank (1781) was fought on the 5 August 1781 during the War of American Independence between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker and a Dutch squadron under Rear-Admiral Johan Zoutman.
- The Dogger Bank Incident took place on the night of October 21 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War when jittery sailors of the Russian Baltic Fleet, en route to the Pacific, opened fire on British fishing boats, imagining them to be Japanese torpedo boats.
- The Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) took place on the 24 January 1915, during the First World War, between squadrons of the Royal Navy and the German Navy.
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