Dogger (boat)

The dogger (Dutch pronunciation: [dɔɣər]) was a group of similar fishing boats, described as early as the fourteenth century, that commonly operated in the North Sea.

Doggers were slow but sturdy vessels, capable of fishing in the rough conditions of the North Sea.

The boats were used for fishing for cod, now called kabeljauw in Dutch, but in that era the name dogge or doggevis was more common.

Doggers were slow but sturdy vessels, capable of fishing in the rough conditions of the North Sea.

In 1646, during the English Civil War, the Parliamentary commander of the ship Andrew, a man named W. Batten, wrote to his superior Sir, I believe the castle of Pendennis will not be long out of our hands; a dogger boat with four guns I have taken, whereof one Kedgwin of Penzant was captain, a notable active knave against the Parliament, and had the King's commission; and now would fain be a merchant man, and was balasted with salt and had divers letters in her for Pendennis castle.