More than Pantomime Warfare The story of the Dogger Bank Affair
In the early hours of Saturday, 22 October 1904, four Russian battleships of the Baltic Fleet opened fire on some British trawlers fishing on the Dogger
Bank. One trawler was sunk and others badly damaged: two men were killed and seven wounded. So began five days of public outrage and diplomatic recrimination that brought
Britain and Russia close to war. James Turtle tells the remarkable story of how the Russian fleet came to be in the North Sea in a state of hysterical indiscipline, and describes the incident itself and the subsequent diplomatic crisis.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol