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I know that the 1904 Dogger Bank Incident has been covered many, many times but I'm curious as to what the long term consequences, possibly up to present day, of the Second Pacific Squadron (aka the Baltic Derp Fleet) running even more afoul of the Brits than they did in OTL would be, rather than just the immediate aftermath.

For the sake of being a bit more specific, the scenario I had in mind regarding the POD is that when the Royal Navy ships go after the Russians for what happened, one or more of the Russian vessels (probably the Kamchatka because her captain was a drunk and apparently incompetent given what that ship got up to in OTL) mistakes the RN vessels for Japanese ones (possibly not as stupid as it seems, at least if visibility was bad enough for them to not see the flag, since a lot of IJN ships of that era were built in Britain and as far as I know often looked similar to their RN counterparts; at the very least it's no more stupid than being unable to tell the difference between a torpedo boat and a trawler) and opens fire. Given that it's the Batic Derp Fleet we're talking about they probably don't manage to do much actual damage but it provokes the Brits into returning fire and they're a heck of a lot better at doing so (not hard). This results in some Russian ships getting sunk and the rest surrendering to the British.

Thoughts?
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