1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war Russian ships open fire as the British trawlers are caught in the searchlights . Admiral Rozhestvensky commander of the Russian Baltic fleet was convinced that Japanese torpedo boats were at large in the Baltic. The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred when the Russian Baltic Fleet mistook some British trawlers at Dogger Bank for an Imperial Japanese Navy force.[1] The Russians attacked on the night of 21/22 October 1904. Three British fishermen died and a number were wounded.