Naval Battles and Incidents
The bank has been the site of several naval actions:
- During the Nine Years' War on 18 June 1696 a French fleet under the command of Jean Bart was victorious over the ships of the Grand Alliance.
- During the War of American Independence, a Royal Navy squadron fought a Dutch squadron on 5 August 1781 in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
- During the Russo-Japanese War, Russian naval ships opened fire on British fishing boats in the Dogger Bank incident on 21 October 1904, mistaking them for Japanese torpedo boats.
- In the First World War, the area saw battles in 1915 and 1916 between the Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet.
- In 1966, the German submarine U-Hai sank during a gale. 19 of 20 men died, one of the worst peacetime naval disasters in German history.
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