Dogger

A dogger is a two-masted North Sea fishing vessel, a bluff-bowed ketch-rigged decked boat used for line and trawl fishing from English and Dutch ports between roughly the 14th and 19th centuries. It carried a small mizzen and worked the offshore cod and herring grounds. The dogger’s name survives in Dogger Bank, the large sandbank in the central North Sea where these boats fished, and which later named both a 1904 incident and the 1915 naval Battle of Dogger Bank.