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Two '''Battles of Dogger Bank''' have been fought near and over the ] in the ].
⚫ The '''Battle of Dogger Bank''' was a naval battle in the ] that took place on ] ], during the ], involving units of the ] and the ].


*The ] was fought on the ] ] during the ] between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral ] and a Dutch squadron under Rear-Admiral Johan Zoutman.
With the German home fleet effectively bottled up by ]'s success at ], German Admiral ] decided to launch a raid upon three British North Sea coastal towns using the German Battlecruiser Squadron, comprising five ]s supported by ]s and ]s. The raid took place on ] ] at 9am, and resulted in the death of 18 civilians at ], causing further damage at ] and ].


⚫ *The ] took place on the ] ], during the ], between squadrons of the ] and the ].
British public and political reaction was outraged that the German Fleet could sail so close to the British coast and proceed to shell coastal towns.


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Buoyed by the success of the raid, Admiral Hipper resolved to repeat the exercise the following month. He was however intercepted by the British on ] ] at ], midway between Germany and Britain.

Through intercepted German radio traffic the British had learnt of Hipper's proposed sortie on ]. Consequently Admiral Beatty set sail with five battle cruisers to meet Hipper's three, aided by a further six light cruisers. Joined by additional cruisers and destroyers at Harwich, Beatty proceeded south before encountering Hipper's outlying vessels at 7.20am on the morning of ].

Realising he was overpowered, Hipper attempted to escape, believing the British battle cruisers to be slower than his. Beatty's cruisers, however, were notably faster than their German counterparts, and succeeded in reaching their extreme firing range by 9am. Battle started half an hour later.

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The British managed to first halt and then sink the slower ] ], killing 782 men, and damaged Hipper's flagship, battlecruiser ] (killing 192), although the Germans in turn succeeding in effectively hammering Beatty's own flagship, ], to a standstill. ''Lion'' took no further part in the battle after 11:00.

Nevertheless, a major British success appeared likely until Beatty, believing to see a submarine (It seems, he saw a surfacing torpedo launched by a German destroyer), ordered a sharp turn to avoid it. Beatty sent out an order which, thanks to the destruction of Lion's electrics and the damage done to her flag hoists, was seriously vague. In following this order his remaining active battlecruisers broke off the pursuit of the German battle cruiser squadron, and rounded on the crippled Blücher, sinking her.

In the intervening time the heavily damaged main German battle cruiser squadron was able to escape.

A German zeppelin appeared over the sinking Blucher and dropped bombs on the sailors. Apparently this was the source of a German claim that a British battlecruiser had been sunk.

15 British sailors had been killed in the encounter.

Although the battle was not greatly consequential of itself, it boosted British morale and concerned the German Kaiser, ], enough to issue an order stating that all further risks to surface vessels were to be avoided.

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Two Battles of Dogger Bank have been fought near and over the Dogger Bank in the North Sea.

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