What Is The Dogger Bank Incident?

The Russians so feared the Japanese torpedo boats that they accidently attacked British fishermen during what would become known as the Dogger Bank Incident, thinking them to be Japanese torpedo boats. The loss of three British fishermen and the unprovoked attacked nearly set the already strained relationship to war (Warner, 414). While that however did not occur, the Russian fleet was denied the use of the Suez Canal, greatly extending the amount of time it would take them to reach the Pacific theater. They were also prohibited to use British ports along the way, severely limiting them where they could take on coal and resupply food stores.
Without friendly ports to visit, the Russians were forced to get coal haulers to pull alongside of them