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"Clearly Japanese vessels coming in for a sneak attack through the North Sea" (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23364699

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogger_Bank_incident

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[–] jqubed 9 points 2 months ago

Before the Dogger Bank incident, the nervous Russian fleet had fired on fishermen carrying consular dispatches from Russia to them near the Danish coast. No damage was caused because of the Russian fleet's poor gunnery.

Later, during the actual incident

More serious losses to both sides were avoided only because of the extremely low quality of Russian gunnery, with the battleship Oryol reportedly firing more than 500 shells without hitting anything.

I feel bad laughing because people died, but that’s hysterically bad!