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Vintage Printed Photographic Postcard - 1904 Russian Outrage on Hull Trawlers Showing Shot Holes - Hull - Yorkshire
A printed photographic postcard. "Russian Outrage on Hull Trawlers. S.T. Mino & Moulmein Showing Shot Holes". (The incident occurred on the 21sr/22nd October 1904). Published by S.R. & Co B'ham / Scott Russell & Co, Art Publishers, Birmingham. No writing and not postally used. Vintage / antique postcard in unused condition In Good+ condition with a pale mark to the lower edge at the reverse. This is one of several postcards I am offering for sale. I will combine postage if more than one item is bought. I am happy to mail items worldwide, and always obtain a certificate of postage. Payment can be accepted by sterling cheque/postal order, or by credit/debit card via Paypal. Postage is extra. Postage can be combined for multiple purchases. Returns are accepted if the item is not as described, so please bid with confidence: please see 'Returns' section for details. Thank-you for looking at this Ebay listing...... The Dogger Bank incident (also known as the North Sea Incident, the Russian Outrage or the Incident of Hull) occurred on the night of 21/22 October 1904, when the Baltic Fleet of the Imperial Russian Navy mistook a British trawler fleet from Kingston upon Hull in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea for Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo boats and fired on them. Russian warships also fired on each other in the chaos of the melée. Two British fishermen died, six more were injured, one fishing vessel was sunk, and five more boats were damaged. On the Russian side, one sailor and a Russian Orthodox priest aboard the cruiser Aurora caught in the crossfire were killed. "Damage to the Aurora was concealed...and only discovered by the deciphering of a wireless message intercepted at [the British] Felixstowe station. It was also considered highly significant that no officer from that ship appeared before the Commission, nor were her logs produced." The incident almost led to war between the British Empire and the Russian Empire. Russia |