Immediately into the voyage, troubles began, with a ship running aground, and another losing its anchor. As the fleet continued along, there was a growing fear among the crew s of the fleet that they were going to be attacked by Japanese submarines. This made sense, because the fleet had just entered Danish waters. When a couple of small defenseless Danish fishing boats made contact with the Russians, the Russian crews opened fire. What was sad was not that the Russians had mistaken tiny fishing boats for Japanese submarines , but was that the Russians had not even hit a single slow moving fishing boat, with their one of their modern warships. The fleet went on until they saw an actual Japanese fleet. The Russian ships fired on the enemy fleet, some sailors ran about their decks waving swords to repulse boarding parties, while others curled up on deck with lifejackets, waiting for their demise. What was strange was that the Japanese were not landing a single hit. What was weirder was that no one could really see the Japanese. What was even weirder was that there was a British fishing fleet where the Japanese were suppposed to be. It did not take that long for the Russians to realise that they had been firing at another defenceless fishing fleet. At least the Russians managed to land a hit this time. Several hits in fact. They had hit the fishing fleet, and themselves, which killed one of their own sailors and an Orthodox Russian priest, which was great for the already plummettng morale of the fleet. This was known to history as the Dogger Bank incident, and almost brought Britain to war with Russia, but Britain just ended up revoking the Russians ’ right to use the Suez Canal,
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