Battle of Dogger Bank (1916)

Battle of Dogger Bank
Part of the First World War
Date 10 February 1916 Location off Dogger Bank, North Sea 54°43′28.63″N 2°46′06.80″E / 54.7246194°N 2.7685556°E / 54.7246194; 2.7685556 Result German victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom	German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Raymond Hallowell-Carew	Johannes Hartog
Strength
4 sloops	25 torpedo boats
Casualties and losses
1 sloop sunk 56 dead 14 captured	none
class=notpageimage| The battle location in the North Sea

The Battle of Dogger Bank on 10 February 1916 was a naval engagement between the Kaiserliche Marine of the German Empire and the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, during the First World War. Three German torpedo boat flotillas sortied into the North Sea and encountered the British 10th Sloop Flotilla near Dogger Bank. The German vessels eventually engaged the British vessels, after mistaking them for cruisers instead of minesweeping sloops. Knowing they were out-gunned, the British attempted to flee and in the chase, the sloop HMS Arabis was sunk, before the British squadron escaped. As the cruisers of the Harwich Force returned to port, the light cruiser HMS Arethusa struck a mine, ran aground and broke in two. Although the Germans were victorious, they inflated the victory by reporting that they had sunk two cruisers.