I think even at the time the "Dogger Bank Incident" to which you allude was recognised as nothing more sinister than grotesque incompetence on the part of the Czar's Navy.
From a lengthy and fairly vigorous gun exchange in which Russian Battleships en route to Japan to do war with the Emperor there came across the Hull trawler fleet and mistook them for Japanese torpedo boats (yes, seriously! On the Dogger Bank!) and ended up enthusiastically shelling each other for some while (1 trawler sunk, 2 fishermen killed) our Russian heroes went on through fiasco after fiasco to Japan where Togo sunk the entire fleet bar 2 or 3 ships. 35 or so left Petrograd. 3 returned. One, the Aurora, the Flagship broke out of the Jap blockade and heroically made it home and remains a museum ship to this day - she fired the shot that signalled the start of this week's associated problems - the Russian Revolution.
The Russian Navy has a lot of ground to make up...
Fishermen, keep yer heids doon!