The Battle of Dogger Bank on 10 February 1916 was a naval engagement between the Kaiserliche Marine of the German Empire and the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, during the First World War.

Under the command of Admiral Hugo von Pohl German naval strategy had been to conserve the High Seas Fleet against the larger Royal Navy while waging war against British merchant shipping by submarine.

A few hours later the alert was cancelled but next day, it was discovered that a force of German light cruisers and destroyers had sailed westwards from the Jade river.

[6] Arabis—along with the other three sloops of her division—had been engaged in sweeping a clear channel east of Dogger Bank when they were sighted by a large number of German torpedo boats.

Although Poppy, Buttercup and Alyssum were able to make good their escape, Arabis was not so fortunate and was caught and engaged by three of the German torpedo boats.

[11] Returning from the sweep, the light cruiser HMS Arethusa struck a German mine, laid in the Sledway channel near the North Cutler buoy the night before, by the submarine SM UC-7.