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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 381 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANK , an extensive shoal in the See also:North See also:Sea, about 6o m. E. of the See also:coast of See also:Northumberland, See also:England. Over its most elevated parts there is a See also:depth of only about six fathoms, but the depth is generally from ten to twenty fathoms. It is well known as a fishing ground. The origin of the name is obscure; but the See also:middle Dutch dogger signifies a See also:trawling See also:vessel, and was formerly applied generally to the two-masted type of vessel employed in the North Sea See also:fisheries, and also to their crews (doggermen) and the See also:fish taken (dogger-fish). Off the See also:south end of the bank an engagement took See also:place between See also:English and Dutch fleets in 1781. On the See also:night of the 21st of See also:October 1904 during the Russo-See also:Japanese See also:War, some See also:British trawlers of the See also:Hull fishing See also:fleet were fired upon by vessels of the See also:Russian Baltic fleet under See also:Admiral Rozhdestvensky on its voyage to the Far See also:East, one trawler being sunk, other boats injured, two men killed and six wounded. This incident created an acute crisis in the relations between See also:Russia and England for several days, the Russian version being that they had seen Japanese See also:torpedo-boats, but on the 28th Mr See also:Balfour, the English See also:prime See also:minister, announced that the See also:tsar had expressed regret and that an See also:international See also:commission would investigate the facts with a view to the See also:punishment of any responsible parties. The terms were settled on 25th See also:November, the commission being composed of five See also:officers (British, Russian, See also:American and See also:French, and one selected by them), to meet in See also:Paris. On the 22nd of See also:December the four See also:original members, See also:Vice-admiral See also:Sir See also:Lewis See also:Beaumont, Vice-admiral Kaznakov (afterwards replaced by Vice-admiral Dubassov), See also:Rear-admiral See also:Davis and Vice-admiral See also:Fournier, met and See also:chose Admiral See also:Baron von Spann (See also:Austria-See also:Hungary) as the fifth. Their See also:report was issued on the 25th of See also:February 1905. While recognizing that the See also:information received as to a possible attack led the admiral to See also:mistake the trawlers for the enemy, the See also:majority of the commissioners held Rozhdestvensky responsible for the firing and its results, and "being of See also:opinion that there were no torpedo-boats either among the trawlers nor anywhere near " concluded that " the opening of See also:fire was not justifiable," though they absolved him and his See also:squadron from discredit either to their " military qualities " or their " humanity." The affair ended in See also:compensation being paid by the Russian See also:government.

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