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Order of battle at Jutland

This is the complete order of battle for the Battle of Jutland fought between 31 May and 1 June 1916. The battle involved 249 warships of the British and German navies, and, in terms of combined tonnage of vessels engaged, was the largest naval battle in history.

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The Grand Fleet

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.

Commander-in-chief, Grand Fleet: Adm Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, K.C.B., K.C.V.O. in HMS Iron DukeSecond in Command, Grand Fleet: VAdm Sir Cecil Burney, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. in HMS Marlborough.Chief of Staff: VAdm Sir Charles Edward Madden, K.C.B., C.V.O.; Captain of the Fleet: Cdre Lionel Halsey, C.B., C.M.G., AdC.; Master of the Fleet: Capt Oliver Elles Leggett; flag lieutenants: Cdr the Hon. Matthew Robert Best, M.V.O., Cdr Charles Morton Forbes, Cdr Alexander Raill Wadham, Cdr Richard Lindsay Nicholson

Battleships

The Grand Fleet had a total of 32 Dreadnought and Super-Dreadnought battleships available to use by the time of Jutland. Of these, 28 took part, organized into four Battle Squadrons. The 24 vessels of 2nd, 4th and 1st Battle Squadrons formed the main body of Fleet, and are listed below order from van to rear following their deployment to engage the German fleet, 6:30pm 31 May 1916.

2nd Battle Squadron (Battleships) : VAdm Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram, K.C.B.
1st Division: VAdm Jerram

  • HMS King George V (flagship): Capt Frederick Laurence Field
  • HMS Ajax: Capt George Henry Baird
  • HMS Centurion: Capt Michael Culme-Seymour, M.V.O.
  • HMS Erin: Capt the Hon. Victor Albert Stanley, M.V.O., AdC.

    • 2nd Division: RAdm Arthur Cavenagh Leveson, C.B.

  • HMS Orion (flagship): Capt Oliver Backhouse, C.B.
  • HMS Monarch: Capt George Holmes Borrett
  • HMS Conqueror: Capt Hugh Henry Darby Tothill, AdC.
  • HMS Thunderer: Capt James Andrew Fergusson

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

  • HMS Iron Duke: Capt Frederic Charles Dreyer, C.B.

    • 4th Battle Squadron (Battleships): VAdm Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G.; flag commander: Cdr William Milbourne James
    3rd Division: RAdm Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff, K.C.B., C.V.O., C.M.G.

  • HMS Royal Oak: Capt Crawford Maclachlan
  • HMS Superb (flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker
  • HMS Canada: Capt William Coldingham Masters Nicholson

    • 4th Division: VAdm Sturdee

  • HMS Benbow (flagship): Capt Henry Wise Parker
  • HMS Bellerophon: Capt Edward Francis Bruen
  • HMS Temeraire: Capt Edwin Veale Underhill
  • HMS Vanguard: Capt James Douglas Dick

    • 1st Battle Squadron (Battleships): VAdm Sir Cecil Burney, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.; Chief of Staff : Cdre Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant; flag lieutenant: Lt Cdr James Buller Kitson
    Fifth Division: RAdm Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt, C.M.G.

  • HMS Colossus (flagship): Capt Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound
  • HMS Collingwood: Capt James Clement Ley
  • HMS St. Vincent: Capt William Wordsworth Fisher, M.V.O.
  • HMS Neptune Capt Vivian Henry Gerald Bernard

    • Sixth Division: VAdm Burney

  • HMS Marlborough (flagship): Capt George Parish Ross
  • HMS Revenge: Capt Edward Buxton Kiddle
  • HMS Hercules: Capt Lewis Clinton-Baker
  • HMS Agincourt: Capt Henry Montagu Doughty

    • Cruisers

    Two squadrons of Armoured Cruisers and one squadron of Light Cruisers were attached to the main body of the Grand Fleet to act as a scouting force.
    1st Cruiser Squadron (Armoured Cruisers): RAdm Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet, K.C.B., M.V.O. †

  • HMS Defence* (flagship): Capt Stanley Venn Ellis †
  • HMS Warrior*: Capt Vincent Barkly Molteno
  • HMS Duke of Edinburgh: Capt Henry Blackett
  • HMS Black Prince*: Capt Thomas Parry Bonham †

    • 2nd Cruiser Squadron (Armoured Cruisers): RAdm Herbert Leopold Heath, M.V.O.

  • HMS Minotaur (flagship): Capt Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughes D'Aeth
  • HMS Hampshire: Capt Herbert John Savill
  • HMS Shannon: Capt John Saumarez Dumaresq, M.V.O.
  • HMS Cochrane: Capt Eustace La Trobe Leatham

    • 4th Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre Charles Edward Le Mesurier

  • HMS Calliope: Cdre Le Mesurier
  • HMS Constance: Capt Cyril Samuel Townsend
  • HMS Comus: Capt Alan Geoffrey Hotham
  • HMS Caroline: Capt Henry Ralph Crooke
  • HMS Royalist: Capt the Hon. Herbert Meade, D.S.O.

    • Light cruisers attached for repeating visual signals

  • HMS Boadicea: Capt Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe, M.V.O. (attached to 2nd B.S.)
  • HMS Active: Capt Percy Withers (attached to Fleet Flagship)
  • HMS Blanche: Capt John Moore Casement (attached to 4th B.S.)
  • HMS Bellona: Capt Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton (attached to 1st. B.S.)

    • Other ships under direct command of the Commander-in-Chief

  • HMS Abdiel: Cdr Berwick Curtis (destroyer-minelayer)
  • HMS Oak: Lt Cdr Douglas Faviell, M.V.O. (destroyer)

    • Destroyers

    The main body of the Grand Fleet was escorted by 46 destroyers and flotilla leaders organized into three flotillas.

    Commodore, Destroyer Flotillas, Grand Fleet: Cdre James Rose Price Hawksley, M.V.O. in HMS Castor (11th Destroyer Flotilla)

    4th Destroyer Flotilla : Capt Charles John Wintour †

  • HMS Tipperary* (flotilla leader): Capt Wintour †

    • first half-flotilla/4th D.F.

  • HMS Spitfire: Lt Cdr Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawney
  • HMS Sparrowhawk* : Lt Cdr Sydney Hopkins
  • HMS Garland: Lt Cdr Reginald Stannus Goff
  • HMS Contest: Lt Cdr Ernald Gilbert Hoskins Master

    • Group 8 /4th D.F.

  • HMS Owl: Cdr Robert Gerald Hamond
  • HMS Hardy: Cdr Richard Anthony Aston Plowden
  • HMS Mischief: Lt Cdr the Hon. Cyril Augustus Ward, M.V.O. (from 12th D.F.)
  • HMS Midge: Lt Cdr James Robert Carnegie Cavendish

    • second half-flotilla/4th D.F.

  • HMS Broke (flotilla leader): Cdr Walter Lingen Allen

    • 3rd Division/4th D.F.

  • HMS Porpoise: Cdr Hugh Davenport Colville
  • HMS Unity: Lt Cdr Arthur Macaulay Lecky

    • 4th Division/4th D.F.

  • HMS Achates: Cdr Reginald Becher Caldwell Hutchinson, D.S.C.
  • HMS Ambuscade: Lt Cdr Gordon Alston Coles
  • HMS Ardent*: Lt Cdr Arthur Marsden
  • HMS Fortune*: Lt Cdr Frank Goodrich Terry †

    • 11th Destroyer Flotilla

  • HMS Castor (light cruiser): Cdre Hawksley

    • first half-flotilla/11th D.F. 1st Division/11th D.F.

  • HMS Ossory: Cdr Harold Victor Dundas
  • HMS Martial: Lt Cdr Julian Harrison
  • HMS Magic: Lt Cdr Gerald Charles Wynter
  • HMS Minion: Lt Cdr Henry Clive Rawlings

    • 2nd Division/11th D.F.

  • HMS Mystic: Cdr Claud Finlinson Allsup
  • HMS Mons: Lt Cdr Robert Makin
  • HMS Mandate: Lt Cdr Edward McConnell Wyndham Lawrie
  • HMS Michael: Lt Cdr Claude Lindsay Bate

    • second half-flotilla/11th D.F.

  • HMS Kempenfelt (flotilla leader): Cdr Harold Ernest Sulivan

    • 3rd Division/11th D.F.

  • HMS Marne: Lt Cdr George Bibby Hartford
  • HMS Milbrook: Lt Charles Granville Naylor
  • HMS Manners: Lt Cdr Gerald Cartmell Harrison

    • 4th Division/11th D.F.

  • HMS Moon: Cdr (Acting) William Dion Irvin
  • HMS Mounsey: Lt Cdr Ralph Vincent Eyre
  • HMS Morning Star: Lt Cdr Hugh Undecimus Fletcher

    • 12th Destroyer Flotilla: Capt Anselan John Buchanan Stirling

  • HMS Faulknor (flotilla leader): Capt Stirling

    • first half-flotilla/12th D.F.
    1st Division/12th D.F.

  • HMS Obedient: Cdr George William McOran Campbell
  • HMS Mindful: Lt Cdr John Jackson Cuthbert Ridley
  • HMS Marvel: Lt Cdr Reginald Watkins Grubb
  • HMS Onslaught: Lt Cdr Arthur Gerald Onslow, D.S.C. †

    • 2nd Division/12th D.F.

  • HMS Maenad: Cdr John Pelham Champion
  • HMS Narwhal: Lt Cdr Henry Victor Hudson
  • HMS Nessus: Lt Cdr Eric Quentin Carter
  • HMS Noble: Lt Cdr Henry Percy Boxer

    • second half-flotilla/12th D.F.: Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan

  • HMS Marksman (flotilla leader): Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan
  • HMS Opal: Cdr Charles Geoffrey Coleridge Sumner
  • HMS Nonsuch: Lt Cdr Herbert Inglis Nigel Lyon
  • HMS Menace: Lt Cdr Charles Astley Poignand
  • HMS Munster: Lt Cdr Spencer Francis Russell
  • HMS Mary Rose: Lt Cdr Edwin Anderson Homan

    • 3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron

    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. The commander of the 3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron was RAdm the Hon. Horace Lambert Alexander Hood K.C.B., D.S.O., M.V.O. †

  • HMS Invincible* (flagship): Capt Arthur Lindesay Cay †
  • HMS Inflexible: Capt Edward Henry Fitzhardinge Heaton-Ellis, M.V.O.
  • HMS Indomitable: Capt Francis William Kennedy

    • accompanying cruisers

  • HMS Canterbury : Capt Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds
  • HMS Chester : Capt Robert Neale Lawson

    • attached destroyers

  • HMS Shark* : Cdr Loftus William Jones †
  • HMS Ophelia: Cdr Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe (Admiralty M class)
  • HMS Christopher: Lt Cdr Fairfax Moresby Kerr
  • HMS Acasta: Lt Cdr John Ouchterlony Barron

    • Battle Cruiser Fleet

    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 aggressively 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.

    Commander, Battle Cruiser Fleet: VAdm Sir David Richard Beatty, K.C.B., M.V.O., D.S.O. in HMS LionChief of Staff: Capt Rudolf Walter Bentinck; flag lieutenants: Cdr the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett, Lt Cdr Ralph Frederick Seymour

    Battlecruisers

    Battlecruiser Fleet Flagship

  • HMS Lion: Capt Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, C.V.O.

    • 1st Battlecruiser Squadron : RAdm Osmond de Beauvior Brock, C.B.

  • HMS Princess Royal (flagship): Capt Walter Henry Cowan, M.V.O., D.S.O.
  • HMS Queen Mary*: Capt Cecil Irby Prowse †
  • HMS Tiger: Capt Henry Bertram Pelly, M.V.O.

    • 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron : RAdm. William Christoper Pakenham, C.B., M.V.O.

  • HMS New Zealand (flagship): Capt John Frederick Ernest Green
  • HMS Indefatigable*: Capt Charles Fitzgerald Sowerby †

    • Battlecruiser Fleet Light Cruisers

    1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair, M.V.O.

  • HMS Galatea Cdre Alexander-Sinclair
  • HMS Phaeton: Capt John Ewen Cameron, M.V.O.
  • HMS Inconstant: Capt Bertram Sackville Thesiger, C.M.G.
  • HMS Cordelia: Capt Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish

    • 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre William Edmund Goodenough, M.V.O., AdC.

  • HMS Southampton: Cdre Goodenough
  • HMS Birmingham: Capt Arthur Allan Morison Duff
  • HMS Nottingham: Capt Charles Blois Miller
  • HMS Dublin: Capt Albert Charles Scott

    • 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron: RAdm Trevylyan Dacres Willes Napier, M.V.O.

  • HMS Falmouth (flagship): Capt John Douglas Edwards
  • HMS Yarmouth: Capt Thomas Drummond Pratt
  • HMS Birkenhead: Capt Edward Reeves
  • HMS Gloucester: Capt William Frederick Blunt, D.S.O.

    • Attached vessel

  • seaplane tender HMS Engadine: Lt Cdr Charles Gwillim Robinson

    • Battle Cruiser Fleet Destroyers

    13th Destroyer Flotilla : Capt James Uchtred Farie

  • HMS Champion (light cruiser): Capt Farie

    • 1st division/13th D.F.

  • HMS Obdurate: Lt Cdr Cecil Henry Hulton Sams
  • HMS Nerissa: Lt Cdr Montague George Bentinck Legge
  • HMS Termagant: Lt Cdr Cuthbert Patrick Blake (attached from 10th D.F., Harwich Force)
  • HMS Moresby: Lt Cdr Roger Vincent Alison (detached to escort HMS Engadine)

    • 2nd division /13th D.F.

  • HMS Nestor* : Cdr the Hon. Edward Barry Stewart Bingham
  • HMS Nomad* : Lt Cdr Paul Whitfield
  • HMS Nicator: Lt Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta
  • HMS Onslow: Lt Cdr John Cronyn Tovey (detached to escort HMS Engadine)

    • 3rd division/13th D.F.

  • HMS Narborough: Lt Cdr Geoffrey Corlett
  • HMS Pelican: Lt Cdr Kenneth Adair Beattie
  • HMS Petard: Lt Cdr Evelyn Claude Ogilvie Thomson
  • HMS Turbulent* (attached from 10DF, Harwich Force): Lt Cdr Dudley Stuart †

    • Attached Harwich Destroyers (9th Destroyer Flotilla) : Cdr Malcolm Lennon Goldsmith

    1st division/9th D.F.

  • HMS Lydiard: Cdr Goldsmith
  • HMS Liberty: Lt Cdr Philip Wilfred Sidney King
  • HMS Landrail: Lt Cdr Francis Edward Henry Graham Hobart

    • 2nd division/9th D.F.

  • HMS Moorsom: Cdr John Coombe Hodgson (from 10th D.F.)
  • HMS Laurel: Lt Henry Dawson Crawford Stanistreet
  • HMS Morris: Lt Cdr Edward Sidney Graham (from 10th D.F.)

    • 5th Battle Squadron

    This was a special unit of fast Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, 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. The commander of the 5th Battle Squadron was RAdm Hugh Evan-Thomas, M.V.O.

  • HMS Barham (flagship): Capt Arthur William Craig
  • HMS Valiant: Capt Maurice Woollcombe
  • HMS Warspite: Capt Edward Montgomery Phillpotts
  • HMS Malaya: Capt the Hon. Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle, C.B., M.V.O.

    • 1st Destroyer Flotilla

  • HMS Fearless (light cruiser): Capt Charles Donnison Roper
  • HMS Defender: Lt Cdr Laurence Reynolds Palmer

    • 1st Division/1st D.F.

  • HMS Acheron: Cdr Charles Gordon Ramsey
  • HMS Ariel: Lt Cdr Arthur Grendon Tippet
  • HMS Attack: Lt Cdr Charles Herbert Neill James
  • HMS Hydra: Lt Francis George Glossop

    • 2nd Division/1st D.F.

  • HMS Badger: Cdr Charles Albert Fremantle
  • HMS Lizard: Lt Cdr Edward Brooke
  • HMS Goshawk: Cdr Dashwood Fowler Moir
  • HMS Lapwing: Lt Cdr Alexander Hugh Gye

    • 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): VAdm Reinhard Scheer in SMS Friedrich der GrosseChief of Staff: Capt Adolf von Trotha; Chief of Operations: Capt Magnus von Levetzow(GE)

    Battleships

    3rd Battle Squadron (III. Geschwader) (Battleships) : RAdm Paul Behncke; flag lieutenant: Lt Cdr Frhr Ernst von Gagern

    5th Division: RAdm Behncke

  • SMS König (flagship): Capt Friedrich Brüninghaus
  • SMS Grosser Kurfürst: Capt Ernst Goette
  • SMS Kronprinz: Capt Constanz Feldt
  • SMS Markgraf: Capt Karl Seiferling

    • 6th Division: RAdm Hermann Nordmann

  • SMS Kaiser (flagship): Capt Walter Frhr von Keyserlingk(GE)
  • SMS Prinzregent Luitpold: Capt Karl Heuser
  • SMS Kaiserin: Capt Karl Sievers

    • Fleet Flagship (Flaggschiff der Hochseeflotte)

  • SMS Friedrich der Grosse: Capt Theodor Fuchs

    • 1st Battle Squadron (I. Geschwader) (Battleships) : VAdm Ehrhard Schmidt; flag lieutenant: Lt Cdr Wolfgang Wegener

    1st Division: VAdm Schmidt

  • SMS Ostfriesland (flagship): Capt Ernst-Oldwig von Natzmer
  • SMS Thüringen: Capt Hans Küsel
  • SMS Helgoland: Capt Friedrich von Kameke
  • SMS Oldenburg: Capt Wilhelm Höpfner

    • 2nd Division: RAdm Walter Engelhardt

  • SMS Posen (flagship): Capt Richard Lange
  • SMS Rheinland: Capt Heinrich Rohardt
  • SMS Nassau: Capt Robert Kühne
  • SMS Westfalen: Capt Johannes Redlich

    • 2nd Battle Squadron (II. Geschwader) (Battleships) : RAdm Franz Mauve(GE); flag lieutenant: Lt Cdr Willy Kahlert

    3rd Division: RAdm Mauve

  • SMS Deutschland (flagship): Capt Hugo Meurer
  • SMS Hessen: Capt Rudolf Bartels
  • SMS Pommern* : Capt Siegfried Bölken †

    • 4th Division: RAdm Frhr Gottfried von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels

  • SMS Hannover (flagship): Capt Wilhlem Heine
  • SMS Schlesien: Capt Friedrich Behncke
  • SMS Schleswig-Holstein: Capt Eduard Varrentrapp

    • Light Cruisers

    4th Scouting Group (IV. Aufklärungsgruppe) (light cruisers) : Kom Ludwig von Reuter; flag lieutenant: Lt Cdr Heinrich Weber

  • SMS Stettin (flagship): Cdr Friedrich Rebensburg
  • SMS München: Lt Cdr Oscar Böcker
  • SMS Frauenlob*: Cdr Georg Hoffman †
  • SMS Stuttgart: Cdr Max Hagedorn
  • SMS Hamburg: Lt Cdr Gerhard von Gaudecker

    • Torpedo Boats

    German torpedo boats (Große Torpedoboote) were the equivalent of British destroyers .
    First Leader of Torpedo-Boats: Cdre Andreas Michelsen

  • SMS Rostock* (light cruiser; flagship 1st Leader of Torpedo-Boats): Cdr Otto Feldmann

    • 1st Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (I. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
    1st Half-Flotilla (1. Halbflottille): Lt Conrad Albrecht

  • SMS G39 (lead boat, half-flotilla): SLt Franz-Ferdinand von Loefen
  • SMS G40: Lt Richard Beitzen
  • SMS G38: Lt Hermann Metger
  • SMS S32: Lt Hermann Froelich

    • 3rd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (III. Torpedoboots-Flottille): Lt Cdr Wilhelm Hollmann

  • SMS S53 (lead boat, flotilla): Lt Friedrich Götting

    • 5th Half-Flotilla (5. Halbflottille) : Lt Theophil Gautier

  • SMS V71 (lead boat, half-flotilla): SLt Friedrich Ulrich
  • SMS V73: Lt Martin Delbrück
  • SMS G88: Lt Hans Scabell

    • 6th Half-Flotilla (6. Halbflottille): Lt Cdr Theodor Riedel †

  • SMS V48* (lead boat, half-flotilla): Lt Friedrich Eckoldt †
  • SMS S54: Lt Otto Karlowa
  • SMS G42: Lt Bernd von Arnim

    • 5th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (V. Torpedoboots-Flottille): Lt Cdr Oskar Heinecke

  • SMS G11 (lead boat, flotilla): Lt Adolf Müller

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

  • SMS V2 (lead boat, half-flotilla): Lt Gerhard Hoefer
  • SMS V4*: Lt Armin Barop
  • SMS V6: SLt Hans Behrendt
  • SMS V1: SLt Hans Röthig
  • SMS V3: Lt Manfred von Killinger

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

  • SMS G8 (lead boat, half-flotilla): SLt Ernst Rodenberg
  • SMS V5: SLt Paul Tils
  • SMS G7: Lt Johannes Weinecke
  • SMS G9: Lt Hans Anschütz
  • SMS G10: SLt Waldemar Haumann

    • 7th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (VII. Torpedoboots-Flottille): Lt Cdr Gottlieb von Koch

  • SMS S24 (lead boat, flotilla): Lt Max Fink

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

  • SMS S15 (lead boat, half-flotilla): SLt Christian Schmidt
  • SMS S17: Lt Hans-Joachim von Puttkammer
  • SMS S20: Lt Albert Benecke
  • SMS S16: Lt Walter Loeffler
  • SMS S18: Lt Bruno Haushalter

    • 14th Half-Flotilla (14. Halbflottille) : Lt Cdr Hermann Cordes

  • SMS S19 (lead boat, half-flotilla): SLt Georg Reimer
  • SMS S23: Lt Arthur von Killinger
  • SMS V189: SLt Wilhelm Keil

    • Scouting Force

    Commander, Scouting Forces (Befehlshaber die Aufklärungsstreitkräfte): VAdm Franz Hipper; flag lieutenant: Lt Cdr Erich Raeder

    Battle Cruisers

    1st Scouting Group (I. Aufklärungsgruppe): VAdm Hipper

  • SMS Lützow* (flagship): Capt Victor Harder
  • SMS Derfflinger: Capt Johannes Hartog
  • SMS Seydlitz: Capt Moritz von Egidy
  • SMS Moltke: Capt Johannes von Karpf
  • SMS Von der Tann: Capt Hans Zenker

    • Scouting Force Light Cruisers

    2nd Scouting Group (II. Aufklärungsgruppe)  : RAdm Friedrich Boedicker

  • SMS Frankfurt (flagship): Capt Thilo von Trotha
  • SMS Elbing* : Cdr Rudolf Madlung
  • SMS Pillau: Cdr Konrad Mommsen(GE)
  • SMS Wiesbaden*: Cdr Fritz Reiß †

    • Scouting Force Torpedo Boats

    Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats: Cdre Paul Heinrich

  • SMS Regensburg (light cruiser; flagship Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats): Cdr Bruno Heuberer

    • 2nd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (II. Torpedoboots-Flottille): Cdr Heinrich Schuur

  • SMS B98 (lead boat, flotilla): Lt Theodor Hengstenberg

    • 3rd Half-Flotilla (3. Halbflottille): Lt Cdr Heinrich Boest

  • SMS G101 (lead boat, half-flotilla): Lt Rudolf Schulte
  • SMS G102: Lt von Barendorff
  • SMS B112: Lt Carl August Claussen(GE)
  • SMS B97: Lt Leo Riedel

    • 4th Half-Flotilla (4. Halbflottille): Lt Cdr Adolf Dithmar

  • SMS B109 (lead boat, half-flotilla): Lt Victor Hahndorff
  • SMS B110: Lt August Vollheim
  • SMS B111: Lt Heinrich Schickhardt
  • SMS G103: Lt Fritz Spiess
  • SMS G104: Lt Georg von Bartenwerffer

    • 6th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (VI. Torpedoboots-Flottille): Lt Cdr Max Schultz

  • SMS G41 (lead boat, flotilla): Lt Hermann Boehm

    • 11th Half-Flotilla (11. Halbflottille) : Lt Wilhelm Rüman

  • SMS V44 (lead boat, half-flotilla): Lt Karl von Holleuffer
  • SMS G87: Lt Siegfried Karstens
  • SMS G86: Lt Kurt Grimm

    • 12th Half-Flotilla (12. Halbflottille): Lt Rudolf Lahs

  • SMS V69 (lead boat, half-flotilla): Lt Robert Stecher
  • SMS V45: Lt Martin Laßmann
  • SMS V46: Lt Bruno Krumhaar
  • SMS S50: Lt Philipp Recke
  • SMS G37: Lt Wolf von Trotha

    • 9th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (IX. Torpedoboots-Flottille): Lt Cdr Herbert Goehle

  • SMS V28 (lead boat, flotilla): Lt Otto Lenssen

    • 17th Half-Flotilla (17. Halbflottille): Lt Hermann Ehrhardt

  • SMS V27* (lead boat, half-flotilla): SLt Hartmut Buddecke
  • SMS V26: Lt Hans Köhler
  • SMS S36: Lt Franz Fischer
  • SMS S51: Lt Werner Dette
  • SMS S52: Lt Wilhelm Ehrentraut

    • 18th Half-Flotilla (17. Halbflottille): Lt Cdr Werner Tillessen (GE)

  • SMS V30 (lead boat, half-flotilla): SLt Ernst Wolf
  • SMS S34: Lt Otto Andersen
  • SMS S33: Lt Waldemar von Münch
  • SMS V29* : Lt Erich Steinbrinck †
  • SMS S35* : Lt Friedrich Ihn †

    • Submarines

    Leader of Submarines (Führer der Unterseeboote) : Capt 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:

  • U-46: Lt Leo Hillebrand
  • U-67: Lt Hans Nieland

    • Off the Humber estuary:

  • UB-21: Lt Ernst Hashagen

    • Off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire:

  • UB-22: SLt Bernhard Putzier

    • Off the Firth of Forth, Scotland:

  • U-52: Lt Hans Walter
  • U-24: Lt Rudolf Schneider
  • U-70: Lt Otto Wünsche
  • U-32: Lt Fahr Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim
  • U-51: Lt Walter Rumpfel
  • U-63: Lt Otto Schultze
  • U-66: Lt Thorwald von Bothmer

    • Off Peterhead, Scotland:

  • U-47: Lt Heinrich Metzger

    • Off the Pentland Firth (between the Orkneys and the Scottish mainland):

  • U-44: Lt Paul Wagenführ
  • U-43: Lt Helmuth Jürst

    • Airships

    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 Lt Cdr 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: Capt August Stelling (Army Officer, on the inactive list)
  • L.14: Lt Alois Böcker
  • L.16: Lt Erich Sommerfeldt
  • L.21: Lt Max Dietrich
  • L.23: Lt Otto von Schubert

    • Sortied on 1 June

  • L.11: Lt Victor Schultze
  • L.17: Lt Herbert Ehrlich
  • L.22: Lt Martin Dietrich
  • L.24: Lt Robert Koch

    • Did not sortie during the Battle of Jutland

  • L.13: Lt Eduard Prölß
  • L.30: SLt Horst Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels

    • Abbreviations

    Abbreviations for Officers’ Ranks (German ranks translated according to current NATO practice):

    Adm: AdmiralVAdm: 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

    AdC.: Aide-de-camp to The KingC.B.: Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the BathC.M.G.: Companion of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint GeorgeC.V.O.: Commander of The Royal Victorian OrderD.F: Destroyer FlotillaD.S.C.:Distinguished Service CrossD.S.O.:Distinguished Service OrderFrhr:Freiherr (title in the Prussian nobility equivalent to Baron)HMS: His Majesty's ShipK.C.B.: Knight Commander of The Most Honourable Order of the BathK.C.M.G.:Knight Commander of The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint GeorgeK.C.V.O.: Knight Commander of The Royal Victorian OrderM.V.O.: Member of The Royal Victorian OrderSMS: Seiner Majestät Schiff (German; translation: His Majesty's Ship)the Hon.: The Honourable

    References

    Order of battle at Jutland Wikipedia
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