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Picture Blog #10: The Russian Outrage

16/8/2017

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On 21 October 1904, the Gamecock Fleet, which consisted of approximately fifty trawlers, was attacked by the Russian Baltic Fleet in the North Sea off Dogger Bank. Despite signals to call off the attack, the Russians bombarded the trawlers for ten minutes, sinking one ship and damaging five others. As Russia was at war with Japan, it is believed that the British ships were mistaken for enemy vessels.

This black and white transparency image entitled ‘Russian Outrage on Hull Trawlers’ is part of Hull Museums Collections. It shows people gathered at St Andrews Dock after the Gamecock Fleet had returned. Among the crowd there is a Black gentleman dressed in dark clothing. His presence demonstrates the inclusion of men of African descent in the region’s maritime sphere during the early twentieth century. It is possible that one of his friends or relatives were on board the Gamecock Fleet or he was simply on the dock to show his support or hear the latest news.
Thanks to Alec Gill and Nicholas Evans for bringing this image to our attention.

  • Learn more about Black seamen in Hull.
  • Read the follow-up story on the Chapman-Wattley family (which came from Nadine Hodgson's comment on this article).
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NADINE HODGSON link
9/3/2018 04:45:08 pm

I think that the Black man in this photo may possibly be my grandfather, John James Wattley who was born in St Lucia in 1884.
He had been a Mercantile Marine, cook on board the trawlers of the Gamecock Fleet and many others that sailed out of Hull , and Grimsby ect.
St Andrews Docks was at the bottom of Liverpool Street, where he lived with his family.
It is very possible that he knew men who had been on board the attacked Dogger Bank trawler's, and had gone there to show his support and hear news.
Some years later my grandfather was drowned while on the steam trawler 'Andromache' which was fired upon and sunk by an enemy submarine, April, 1917.
There is a plaque at Tower Hill, London to honour him and the others who died.

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