Doggerbank

Doggerbank, an extensive flat sand-bank in the German Ocean, between England and Denmark, about 100 miles off the Yorkshire coast. It is about 170 miles long by 65 broad, with an average depth of from 8 to 16 fathoms. Its fisheries are most valuable, some 400,000 tons of fish being gathered from it annually. For an account of its fishing life, see Mather's Nor'ard of the Dogger (1888). The south end of the bank was in 1781 the scene of an indecisive naval fight between the Dutch and English fleets, under Admirals Zoutman and Hyde Parker.