Battle of Jutland order of battle

File:Map of the Battle of Jutland, 1916.svg

Maps showing the approach of the fleets to the Battle of Jutland and details of the two major actions.

The Battle of Jutland was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916, in the waters of the North Sea, between forces of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet and Imperial German Navy High Seas Fleet. The battle involved 250 warships, and, in terms of combined tonnage of vessels engaged, was the largest naval battle in history.

The Royal Navy had established a blockade of the North Sea at the start of the war and the German Hochseeflotte could not match the larger Grand Fleet. The German plan was to use the threat of an attack by their battlecruisers on British ports to lure the British battlecruisers into a trap where they could be defeated by a superior force of battleships without encountering the rest of the Grand Fleet. Aware of all German naval movements, the British fleet sortied to support their battlecruisers and bring the German fleet to battle.

In the event, although more British ships were sunk or damaged, the overall strategic situation was unchanged.

Summary

Ships present

Warships by number and size of main armament

	Royal Navy	Imperial German Navy
Dreadnoughts	28 in total 8 × 15-inch 2 × (28,000 tons displacement, 21 knots top speed) 4 × (27,500 tons, 24 kn.) 10 × 14-inch HMS Canada (28,622 tons, 23 kn.Template:Efn) 10 × 13.5-inch 3 × (25,420 tons, 21 kn.) 3 × (25,000 tons, 21.5 kn.) (22,780 tons, 21 kn.) 4 × (21,922 tons, 21 kn.) 14 × 12-inch (28,750 tons, 22 kn.) 10 × 12-inch 2 × (20,030 tons, 21 kn.) (19,680 tons, 21 kn.) 3 × (19,700 tons, 21 kn.) 3 × (18,596 tons, 21 kn.)	16 in total 10 × 12-in. 4 × (25,420 tons, 21 kn.) 4 × (25,389 tons, 21 kn.) 12 × 12-in. 4 × (22,448 tons, 20.5 kn.) 12 × 11-in. 4 × (18,575 tons, 19 kn.)
Pre-dreadnought battleships		6 total' 4 × 11-in. (12,999 tons, 18 kn.) 5 × (12,983 tons, 19 kn.)
Battlecruisers	9 total 8 × 13.5-in. (28,500 tons, 28 kn.) (26,770 tons, 28 kn.) 2 × (26,270 tons, 27.5 kn.) 8 × 12-in. 2 × (18,500 tons, 25.8 kn.) 3 × (17,250 tons, 25 kn.)	5 total 8 × 12-in (30.5 cm) 2 × (26,200 tons, 26.5 kn.) 10 × 11-in. (24,593 tons, 26.5 kn.) (22,216 tons, 25.5 kn.) 8 × 11-in. (19,060 tons, 24.8 kn.)
Armoured cruisers	8 total 4 × 9.2-in., 5 × 7.5-in. 3 × (14,600 tons, 23 kn.) 4 × 9.2-in., 2 × 7.5-in. 2 × (12,590 tons, 23 kn.) 4 × 9.2-in., 5 × 6-in. 2 × (12,590 tons, 23 kn.) 3 × 7.5-in., 3 × 6-in. (10,850 tons, 22 kn.)
Smaller ships	26 × light cruisers 79 × destroyers (including one destroyer-minelayer)	11 × light cruisers 61 × torpedo boats

British capital ships carried a larger weight of broadside— compared to —than the German ones.

The German Navy's torpedo boats were of similar size and function to the destroyers in the Royal Navy, and are often referred to as such.

Losses

Losses of the fleets with date of loss

	Pre-dreadnought battleships	Battlecruisers	Armoured cruisers	Light cruisers	Destroyers / Torpedo boats
Royal Navy		(31 May) (31 May) (31 May)	(31 May) (1 June) (1 June)		3 (31 May) 5 (1 June)
Imperial German Navy	(1 June)	(1 June)		(31 May) (1 June) (1 June) (1 June)	3 (31 May) 2 (1 June)

Abbreviations

Officers killed in action are indicated thus:  †

Abbreviations for officers’ ranks (German ranks translated according to current NATO practice)Template:Efn:

Adm / Admiral

VAdm / Vice-admiral : Vizeadmiral / VAdm

RAdm / Rear-admiral : Konteradmiral / KAdm

Cdre / Commodore : Kommodore / Kom

Capt / Captain : Kapitän zur See / KptzS

Cdr / Commander : Fregattenkapitän / FKpt

Lt Cdr / Lieutenant-commander : Korvettenkapitän / KKpt

Lt / Lieutenant : Kapitänleutnant / KptLt

SLt / Sub-lieutenant : Oberleutnant zur See / OLtzS

Other abbreviations

Frhr:Freiherr / title in the Prussian nobility equivalent to Baron)

SMS: Seiner Majestät Schiff / German; translation: His Majesty's Ship)

the Hon.: The Honourable

Royal Navy

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Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe

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The dreadnoughts King George V, Thunderer, Monarch, and Conqueror of the 2nd Battle Squadron in 1914

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Battleship , at anchor

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The battleship was originally under construction in UK for the Brazilian Navy but then bought by the Ottoman Empire; at the start of the war it was taken into service with the Royal Navy.

Grand Fleet

Began sortie from Scapa Flow 9.30pm 28 May
The Grand Fleet was the main body of the British Home Fleets in 1916, based at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth in Scotland.Template:Efn

Commander-in-chief, Grand Fleet: Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Template:Postnom in HMS Iron Duke

Second in Command, Grand Fleet: Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, Template:Postnom in HMS Marlborough

Chief of Staff: Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Madden, Template:Postnom

Captain of the Fleet: Commodore Lionel Halsey, C.B., C.M.G., AdC.

Master of the Fleet: Captain Oliver Leggett

Battleships

2nd Battle Squadron (battleships)Template:Efn

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Martyn Jerram

Sortied from Cromarty Firth; rendezvoused with Jellicoe's force around noon 31 May

1st Division: Vice-Admiral Jerram

(flagship): Capt Frederick Field

: Capt George Henry Baird

: Capt Michael Culme-Seymour

: Capt the Hon. Victor Stanley

2nd Division: Rear Admiral Arthur Leveson

(flagship): Capt Oliver Backhouse

: Capt George Borrett

: Capt Hugh Tothill

: Capt James Fergusson

Fleet Flagship (at head of 3rd Division but not part of 4th Battle Squadron)

: Capt Frederic Charles Dreyer

4th Battle Squadron (battleships)

Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet

3rd Division:Template:Efn RAdm Alexander Duff

: Capt Crawford Maclachlan

(flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker

: Capt William Nicholson

4th Division: VAdm Sturdee

(flagship): Capt Henry Wise Parker

: Capt Edward Francis Bruen

: Capt Edwin Veale Underhill

: Capt James Douglas Dick

1st Battle Squadron (battleships)Template:Efn

Admiral Sir Cecil Burney

Chief of Staff: Commodore Percy Grant

5th Division: Rear Admiral Ernest Gaunt

(flagship): Capt Dudley Pound

: Capt James Clement Ley

: Capt William Wordsworth Fisher

Capt Vivian Bernard

6th Division: VAdm Burney

(flagship): Capt George Parish Ross

: Capt Edward Buxton Kiddle

: Capt Lewis Clinton-Baker

: Capt Henry Montagu Doughty

Cruisers

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The armoured cruiser was lost with all hands the night of 31 May–1 June

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The light cruiser at anchor

1st Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)Template:Efn
Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet  †

• (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Stanley Venn Ellis †
• (sunk 1 June): Capt Vincent Barkly Molteno
• : Capt Henry Blackett
• (sunk 1 June): Capt Thomas Parry Bonham †

2nd Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)Template:Efn

Rear-Admiral Herbert Heath

• (flagship): Capt Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughes D'Aeth Template:Efn
• : Capt Herbert John Savill
• : Capt John Saumarez Dumaresq
• : Capt Eustace La Trobe Leatham

4th Light Cruiser Squadron

Commodore Charles Edward Le Mesurier

• : Commodore Le Mesurier
• : Capt Cyril Samuel Townsend
• : Capt Alan Hotham
• : Capt Henry Crooke
• : Capt the Hon. Herbert Meade

Light cruisers attached for repeating visual signals

• : Capt Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe (attached to 2nd B.S.)
• : Capt Percy Withers (attached to Fleet Flagship)
• : Capt John Casement (attached to 4th B.S.)
• : Capt Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton (attached to 1st B.S.)

Other ships under direct command of the Commander-in-ChiefTemplate:Efn

• : Cdr Berwick Curtis (fast minelayer)
• : Lt Cdr Douglas Faviell (tender to the flagship of the Grand Fleet)

Destroyers

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The flotilla leader (a larger destroyer) was sunk on the night of 31 May–1 June taking 150 crew and flotilla captain John Wintour

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Acasta-class destroyer after having been rammed by the German battleship during the Battle of Jutland

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Faulknor-class flotilla leader at speed

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Destroyer

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(Cambrian subclass) light cruiser

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The bow and stern of the battlecruiser standing upright on the bed of the North Sea after exploding during the Battle of Jutland. Rear Admiral Hood and her captain were killed along with the crew.

4th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Efn

Captain Charles John Wintour †

(Faulknor-class flotilla leader, sunk 1 June) : Capt Wintour †

• First half-flotilla / 4th D.F.
  • : Lt Cdr Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawney
  • (scuttled 1 June following collision): Lt Cdr Sydney Hopkins
  • : Lt Cdr Reginald Stannus Goff
  • : Lt Cdr Ernald Gilbert Hoskins Master

Group 8 / 4th D.F.Template:Efn

: Cdr Robert Gerald Hamond

: Cdr Richard Anthony Aston Plowden

: Lt Cdr the Hon. Cyril Augustus Ward (from 12th D.F.)

: Lt Cdr James Robert Carnegie Cavendish

• Second half-flotilla / 4th D.F.
  • (): Cdr Walter Lingen Allen
  • 3rd Division / 4th D.F.
    • : Cdr Hugh Davenport Colville
    • : Lt Cdr Arthur Macaulay Lecky
  • 4th Division / 4th D.F.
    • : Cdr Reginald Becher Caldwell Hutchinson, D.S.C.
    • : Lt Cdr Gordon Alston Coles
    • (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Arthur Marsden
    • (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Frank Goodrich Terry †

11th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Efn

Commanded by Commodore Hawksley in , a light cruiser

• First half-flotilla / 11th D.F.
  • 1st Division / 11th D.F.
    • : Cdr Harold Victor Dundas
    • : Lt Cdr Julian Harrison
    • : Lt Cdr Gerald Charles Wynter
    • : Lt Cdr Henry Clive Rawlings
  • 2nd Division / 11th D.F.
    • : Cdr Claud Finlinson Allsup
    • : Lt Cdr Robert Makin
    • : Lt Cdr Edward McConnell Wyndham Lawrie
    • : Lt Cdr Claude Lindsay Bate
• Second half-flotilla/11th D.F.

(Marksman-class flotilla leader): Cdr Harold Ernest Sulivan

• • 3rd Division / 11th D.F.
    • : Lt Cdr George Bibby Hartford
    • : Lt Charles Granville Naylor
    • : Lt Cdr Gerald Harrison
  • 4th Division / 11th D.F.
    • : Cdr (Acting) William Dion Irvin
    • : Lt Cdr Ralph Vincent Eyre
    • : Lt Cdr Hugh Undecimus Fletcher

12th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Efn

Captain Anselan John Buchanan Stirling

(Faulknor-class flotilla leader): Capt Stirling

• First half-flotilla / 12th D.F.
  • 1st Division / 12th D.F.
    • : Cdr George William McOran Campbell
    • : Lt Cdr John Jackson Cuthbert Ridley
    • : Lt Cdr Reginald Watkins Grubb
    • : Lt Cdr Arthur Gerald Onslow  †
  • 2nd Division / 12th D.F.
    • : Cdr John Pelham Champion
    • : Lt Cdr Henry Victor Hudson
    • : Lt Cdr Eric Quentin Carter
    • : Lt Cdr Henry Percy Boxer
• Second half-flotilla / 12th D.F.: Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan
  • (Marksman-class flotilla leader): Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan
  • : Cdr Charles Geoffrey Coleridge Sumner
  • : Lt Cdr Herbert Inglis Nigel Lyon
  • : Lt Cdr Charles Astley Poignand
  • : Lt Cdr Spencer Francis Russell
  • : Lt Cdr Edwin Anderson Homan

3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron

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Rear Admimral Hood, commander of the 3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron, was killed during the battle along with all but six of the crew when HMS Invincible exploded

This squadron, temporarily attached to the Grand Fleet from the Battle Cruiser Fleet, was stationed ahead of the main body, with the intention that it join Beatty when the action began.
Rear-Admiral The Hon. Horace Hood, (KIA)

• Battlecruisers
  • (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Arthur Lindesay Cay (KIA)
  • : Capt Edward Heaton-Ellis
  • : Capt Francis William Kennedy
• Accompanying cruisers
  •  :Template:Efn Capt Percy Royds
  •  :Template:Efn Capt Robert Neale Lawson
• Attached destroyers Template:Efn
  • (sunk 31 May): Cdr Loftus William Jones (KIA)
  • : Cdr Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe (Admiralty M-class destroyer)
  • : Lt Cdr Fairfax Moresby Kerr
  • : Lt Cdr John Ouchterlony Barron

Battle Cruiser Fleet

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VAdm Sir David R. Beatty

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Battlecruiser , VAdm Beatty's flagship, heavily damaged at the Battle of Jutland

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Battlecruiser exploding, 31 May 1916

This force of high-speed ships was subordinate to the Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, but operated independently as an advanced guard, intended to reconnoiter the enemy fleet and to engage enemy scouting forces. At its core were six battlecruisers, accompanied by 13 light cruisers, and escorted by 18 destroyers and an early aircraft carrier. Template:Refn
Sortied from Firth of Forth soon after 6.00pm 30 May
Vice-Admiral Sir David Richard Beatty in HMS Lion

Chief of Staff: Capt Rudolph Bentinck

Battlecruisers

: (flagship) Captain Ernle Chatfield

• 1st Battlecruiser Squadron: Rear Admiral Osmond Brock on Princess Royal
  • (flagship): Capt Walter Cowan,
  • (sunk 31 May): Capt Cecil Prowse (KIA)
  • : Capt Henry Bertram Pelly.
• 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron:Template:Efn Rear Admiral William Pakenham,
  • (flagship): Capt John Green
  • (sunk 31 May): Capt Charles Fitzgerald Sowerby (KIA)

Light cruisers

• 1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair
  • Cdre Alexander-Sinclair
  • : Capt John Cameron
  • : Capt Bertram Thesiger
  • : Capt Tufton Beamish
• 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre William Goodenough
  • : Cdre Goodenough
  • : Capt Arthur Duff
  • : Capt Charles Blois Miller
  • : Capt Albert Charles Scott
• 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron: Rear Admiral Trevylyan Napier
  • (flagship): Capt John Douglas Edwards
  • : Capt Thomas Drummond Pratt
  • : Capt Edward Reeves
  • : Capt William Frederick Blunt

Attached to the light cruisers was the seaplane tender (Lt Cdr Charles Gwillim Robinson) carrying two Short Type 184 reconnaissance seaplanes and two Sopwith Baby fighter seaplanes.

Destroyers

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Short Type 184 scout plane, the only British aircraft to take part in the Battle of Jutland

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Light cruiser

13th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Refn
Captain James Uchtred Farie

(light cruiser): Capt Farie

1st Division / 13th D.F.

: Lt Cdr Cecil Henry Hulton Sams

: Lt Cdr Montague George Bentinck Legge

: Lt Cdr Cuthbert Patrick Blake (attached from 10th D.F., Harwich Force)

: Lt Cdr Roger Vincent Alison (detached to escort HMS Engadine)

2nd Division / 13th D.F.

(sunk 31 May): Cdr the Hon. Edward Bingham

(sunk 31 May): Lt Cdr Paul Whitfield

: Lt Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta

: Lt Cdr John Tovey (detached to escort HMS Engadine)

3rd Division / 13th D.F.

: Lt Cdr Geoffrey Corlett

: Lt Cdr Kenneth Adair Beattie

: Lt Cdr Evelyn Thomson

(sunk 1 June):Template:Efn Lt Cdr Dudley Stuart †

Attached Harwich Destroyers (9th Destroyer Flotilla): Cdr Malcolm Lennon GoldsmithTemplate:Refn

1st division / 9th D.F.

: Cdr Goldsmith

: Lt Cdr Philip Wilfred Sidney King

: Lt Cdr Francis Edward Henry Graham Hobart

2nd division / 9th D.F.

: Cdr John Coombe Hodgson (from 10th D.F.)

: Lt Henry Dawson Crawford Stanistreet

: Lt Cdr Edward Sidney Graham (from 10th D.F.)

5th Battle Squadron

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RAdm Hugh Evan-Thomas

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The Queen-Elzaabeth-class battleship , Rear Admiral Evan-Thomas's flagship, at Scapa Flow in 1917

The 5th Battle Squadron was a special unit of fast s, intended to act as the vanguard of the main battle line. At the Battle of Jutland, it operated with the Battlecruiser Fleet, and was escorted by the 1st Destroyer Flotilla.Template:Efn
Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas
Sortied from Firth of Forth with the Battle Cruiser Fleet soon after 6.00pm 30 May

Battleships

(flagship): Capt Arthur William Craig

: Capt Maurice Woollcombe

: Capt Edward Montgomery Phillpotts

: Capt the Hon. Algernon Boyle

1st Destroyer Flotilla Template:Efn

(light cruiser): Capt Charles Donnison Roper

: Lt Cdr Laurence Reynolds Palmer

1st Division / 1st D.F.

: Cdr Charles Ramsey

: Lt Cdr Arthur Grendon Tippet

: Lt Cdr Charles Herbert Neill James

: Lt Francis George Glossop

2nd Division / 1st D.F.

: Cdr Charles Albert Fremantle

: Lt Cdr Edward Brooke

: Cdr Dashwood Fowler Moir

: Lt Cdr Alexander Hugh Gye

Imperial German Navy

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Vizeadmiral Reinhard Scheer

A line of nine large gray battleships stretches into the distance, all belching dark black smoke from their funnels

Dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet steam in a line of battle

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Battleship Friedrich der Grosse, VAdm Scheer's flagship

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Battleship Kaiser underway

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Light cruiser Frauenlob, sunk 31st May

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Light cruiser Rostock, scuttled 1st June after being torpedoed

High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte)

The High Seas Fleet was the main body of the German surface navy, principally based at Wilhelmshaven, on the Jade River in North-West Germany.

Commander-in-Chief (Chef der Hochseeflotte): Vizeadmiral Reinhard Scheer in SMS Friedrich der Grosse

Chief of Staff: KptzS Adolf von Trotha

Chief of Operations: KptzS Magnus von Levetzow

Battleships

3rd Battle Squadron (III. Geschwader) (battleships)Template:Efn

Konteradmrial Paul Behncke

Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Frhr Ernst von Gagern

5th Division: KAdm Behncke

(flagship): KptzS Friedrich Brüninghaus

: KptzS Ernst Goette

: KptzS Constanz Feldt

: KptzS Karl Seiferling

6th Division: KAdm Hermann Nordmann

(flagship): KptzS Template:Ill

: KptzS Karl Heuser

: KptzS Karl Sievers

Fleet Flagship (Flaggschiff der Hochseeflotte)Template:Efn

: KptzS Theodor Fuchs

1st Battle Squadron (I. Geschwader) (battleships)Template:Efn

Vizeadmiral Ehrhard Schmidt

Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Wolfgang Wegener

1st Division: VAdm Schmidt

(flagship): KptzS Ernst-Oldwig von Natzmer

: KptzS Hans Küsel

: KptzS Friedrich von Kameke

: KptzS Wilhelm Höpfner

2nd Division: KAdm Walter Engelhardt

(flagship): KptzS Richard Lange

: KptzS Heinrich Rohardt

: KptzS Robert Kühne

: KptzS Johannes Redlich

2nd Battle Squadron (II. Geschwader) (battleships)Template:Efn

Konteradmrial Template:Ill

Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Willy Kahlert

3rd Division: KAdm Mauve

(flagship): KptzS Hugo Meurer

: KptzS Rudolf Bartels

(sunk 1st June): KptzS Siegfried Bölken †

4th Division: KAdm Frhr Gottfried von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels

(flagship): KptzS Wilhlem Heine

: KptzS Friedrich Behncke

: KptzS Eduard Varrentrapp

Light cruisers

IV. Aufklärungsgruppe ("4th Scouting Group", light cruisers)Template:Efn

Kommodore Ludwig von Reuter

Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Weber

(flagship): FKpt Friedrich Rebensburg

: KKpt Oscar Böcker

(sunk 31st May): FKpt Georg Hoffman †

: FKpt Max Hagedorn

: KKpt Gerhard von Gaudecker Template:Efn

Torpedo boats

German Große Torpedoboote ("large torpedoboats") were the equivalent of British destroyers .Template:Efn

First Leader of Torpedo-Boats

Kommodore Andreas Michelsen

(scuttled 1st June) (light cruiser; flagship 1st Leader of Torpedo-Boats): FKpt Otto Feldmann Template:Efn

1st Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (I. Torpedoboots-Flottille)Template:Efn

1st Half-Flotilla (1. Halbflottille):Template:Efn KptLt Conrad Albrecht

(lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Franz-Ferdinand von Loefen

: KptLt Richard Beitzen

: KptLt Hermann Metger

: KptLt Hermann Froelich

3rd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (III. Torpedoboots-Flottille)

Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Hollmann

(lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Friedrich Götting

5th Half-Flotilla (5. Halbflottille) :Template:Efn KptLt Theophil Gautier

(lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Friedrich Ulrich

: KptLt Martin Delbrück

: KptLt Hans Scabell

6th Half-Flotilla (6. Halbflottille):Template:Efn Korvettenkapitän Theodor Riedel †Template:Efn

(lead boat, half-flotilla) (sunk 31st May): KptLt Friedrich Eckoldt †

: KptLt Otto Karlowa

: KptLt Bernd von Arnim

5th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (V. Torpedoboots-Flottille)

Korvettenkapitän Oskar Heinecke

(lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Adolf Müller

9th Half-Flotilla (9. Halbflottille): KptLt Gerhard Hoefer

(lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Gerhard Hoefer

(sunk 1st June): KptLt Armin Barop

: OLtzS Hans Behrendt

: OLtzS Hans Röthig

: KptLt Manfred von Killinger

10th Half-Flotilla (10. Halbflottille): KptLt Friedrich Klein

(lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Ernst Rodenberg

: OLtzS Paul Tils

: KptLt Johannes Weinecke

: KptLt Hans Anschütz

: OLtzS Waldemar Haumann

7th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (VII. Torpedoboots-Flottille)

Korvettenkapitän Gottlieb von Koch

(lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Max Fink

13th Half-Flotilla (13. Halbflottille): KptLt Georg von Zitzewitz

(lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Christian Schmidt

: KptLt Hans-Joachim von Puttkammer

: KptLt Albert Benecke

: KptLt Walter Loeffler

: KptLt Bruno Haushalter

14th Half-Flotilla (14. Halbflottille):Template:Efn Korvettenkapitän Hermann Cordes

(lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Georg Reimer

: KptLt Arthur von Killinger

: OLtzS Wilhelm Keil

Scouting Force

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Vizeadmiral Franz Hipper

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The battlecruiser , Vizeadmiral Hipper's flagship

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Battlecruiser firing a full broadside

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took a tremendous amount of damage during the battle. It was able to detach from the battle but was on point of sinking when pump steamers saved it

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Light cruiser in 1920

Commander, Scouting Forces (Befehlshaber die Aufklärungsstreitkräfte): Vizeadmiral Franz Hipper

Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Erich RaederTemplate:Efn

Battlecruisers

1st Scouting Group (I. Aufklärungsgruppe)
Vizeadmiral Hipper

• (flagship) (scuttled 1 June): KptzS Victor Harder
• : KptzS Johannes Hartog
• : KptzS Moritz von Egidy
• : KptzS Johannes von Karpf
• : KptzS Hans Zenker

Light cruisers

2nd Scouting Group (II. Aufklärungsgruppe) Template:Efn

Konteradmiral Friedrich Boedicker

(flagship): KptzS Thilo von Trotha

(scuttled 1 June): KFpt Rudolf Madlung

: KFpt Template:Ill

(sunk 1 June): KFpt Fritz Reiß †

Torpedo boats

Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats

Kommodore Paul Heinrich

(light cruiser; flagship Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats): KFpt Bruno HeubererTemplate:Efn

II. Torpedoboots-Flottille (2nd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla )

Commander Heinrich Schuur

(lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Theodor Hengstenberg

• 3. Halbflottille (3rd Half-Flotilla) KKpt Heinrich Boest
  • (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Rudolf Schulte
  • : KptLt von Barendorff
  • : KptLt Template:Ill
  • : KptLt Leo Riedel
• 4. Halbflottille (4th Half-Flotilla): KKpt Adolf Dithmar
  • (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Victor Hahndorff
  • : KptLt August Vollheim
  • : KptLt Heinrich Schickhardt
  • : KptLt Fritz Spiess
  • : KptLt Georg von Bartenwerffer

VI. Torpedoboots-Flottille (6th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla)

Lieut. Commander Max Schultz

(lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Hermann Boehm

• 11. Halbflottille (11th Half-Flotilla) :Template:Efn KptLt Wilhelm Rüman
  • (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Karl von Holleuffer
  • : KptLt Siegfried Karstens
  • : KptLt Kurt Grimm
• 12. Halbflottille (12th Half-Flotilla) KptLt Rudolf Lahs
  • (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Robert Stecher
  • : KptLt Martin Laßmann
  • : KptLt Bruno Krumhaar
  • : KptLt Philipp Recke
  • : KptLt Wolf von Trotha

IX. Torpedoboots-Flottille (9th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla)

Lieut. Commander Herbert Goehle

(lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Otto Lenssen

• 17. Halbflottille (17th Half-Flotilla ): KptLt Hermann Ehrhardt
  • (sunk 31 May, lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Hartmut Buddecke
  • : KptLt Hans Köhler
  • : KptLt Franz Fischer
  • : KptLt Werner Dette
  • : KptLt Wilhelm Ehrentraut
• 18. Halbflottille (18th Half-Flotilla): Korvettenkapitän Template:Ill
  • (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS' Ernst Wolf
  • : KptLt Otto Andersen
  • : KptLt Waldemar von Münch
  • (sunk 31 May): KptLt Erich Steinbrinck †
  • (sunk 31 May): KptLt Friedrich Ihn †

Submarines

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SM UB-14, a World War I German submarine

Führer der Unterseeboote ("Leader of the U-boats") in the North Sea Fregattenkapitän Hermann Bauer in SMS Hamburg

The following submarines were deployed to attack the Grand Fleet in the North Sea during the period of the Battle of Jutland

• Off Terschelling:
  • : KptLt Leo Hillebrand
  • : KptLt Hans Nieland
• Off the Humber Estuary:
  • : KptLt Ernst Hashagen
• Off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire:
  • : OLtzS Bernhard Putzier
• Off the Firth of Forth, Scotland:
  • : KptLt Hans Walter
  • : KptLt Rudolf Schneider
  • : KptLt Otto Wünsche
  • : KptLt Fahr Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim
  • : KptLt Walter Rumpfel
  • : KptLt Otto Schultze
  • : KptLt Thorwald von Bothmer
• Off Peterhead, Scotland:
  • : KptLt Heinrich Metzger
• Off the Pentland Firth (between the Orkneys and the Scottish mainland):
  • : KptLt Paul Wagenführ
  • : KptLt Helmuth Jürst

Airships

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Typical German Zeppelin

During the battle the Germans used the Zeppelin airships of the Naval Airship Section (Marine Luftschiff Abteilung) for scouting, although in the prevailing overcast conditions they were not particularly successful. The commander of the Naval Airship Section was Korvettenkapitän Peter Strasser, and they flew from bases at Nordholz and Hage in north-west Germany and Tondern (then part of Schleswig; the town became part of Denmark in 1920).

Sortied on 31 May

L.9: KptzS August Stelling (Army Officer, on the inactive list)

L.14: KptLt Alois Böcker

L.16: KptLt Erich Sommerfeldt

L.21: KptLt Max Dietrich

L.23: KptLt Otto von Schubert

Sortied on 1 June

L.11: KptLt Victor Schultze

L.17: KptLt Herbert Ehrlich

L.22: KptLt Martin Dietrich

L.24: KptLt Robert Koch

Did not sortie during the Battle of Jutland

L.13: KptLt Eduard Prölß

L.30: OLtzS Horst Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels