Rozhestvensky sent selected officers to an international tribunal in Paris, which cleared him despite the account of his needing about twenty minutes to regain control of the firing. The voyage's disorder continued when Kamchatka claimed attacks by three neutral vessels and a Russian ship severed Tangier's underwater telegraph cable with an improperly raised anchor. Russia ultimately paid £66,000 in compensation to the fishermen, and Hull received a memorial to the victims. A contemporary political cartoon cast Theodore Roosevelt as a policeman between Britain and Russia. Britain preferred not to fight Russia while it was already watching Germany and other strategic problems. British restraint therefore reflected wider alliance and threat calculations rather than acceptance of the attack. A local naval blunder became a test of arbitration, compensation, public memory, and great-power crisis management.
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Inquiry, compensation, and Britain's strategic restraint
The Dogger Bank Incident moves from command failure to international arbitration, Russian compensation, a Hull memorial, and a British decision not to widen the war.