Dogger Bank
an extensive sand bank of the German Ocean, celebrated for its codfishery. It begins about miles E. of Flamborough Head and extends E. N. E. to within 60 miles of Jutland, in some places attaining a breadth of about 60 miles, though it terminates merely in a point. Where shallowest the water over it is nine fathoms. Here on the night of Oct. 21 1904, the Russian Baltic fleet under Admiral Rozhdestvenski, en route for Japan, mistook Hull fishing boats for hostile ships and sank a trawler, causing the death of two men .