thumb|360px|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

{| class="wikitable"

|+Warships by number and size of main armament

!align="centre"|

!align="centre"|Royal Navy

!align="centre"|Imperial German Navy

|-

|style="vertical-align: top;"|Dreadnoughts

|style="vertical-align: top;"|28 in total<br>

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.)

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.)

|style="vertical-align: top;"| 16 in total<br>

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.)

|-

|style="vertical-align: top;"|Pre-dreadnought battleships

|

|style="vertical-align: top;"|6 total'<br>

4 × 11-in.

  • (12,999 tons, 18 kn.)
  • 5 × (12,983 tons, 19 kn.)

|-

|style="vertical-align: top;"|Battlecruisers

|style="vertical-align: top;"|9 total<br>

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.)

|style="vertical-align: top;"|5 total<br>

8 × 12-in (30.5&nbsp;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

|style="vertical-align: top;"|8 total<br>

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<br>79 × destroyers (including one destroyer-minelayer)

|11 × light cruisers<br>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

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

|+Losses of the fleets with date of loss

|-

! scope="col" |

! scope="col" | Pre-dreadnought<br>battleships

! scope="col" | Battlecruisers

! scope="col" | Armoured<br>cruisers

! scope="col" | Light<br>cruisers

! scope="col" | Destroyers /<br>Torpedo boats

|-

! style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | Royal Navy

| scope="row" |

| style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | (31 May)<br> (31 May)<br> (31 May)

| style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | (31 May)<br> (1 June)<br> (1 June)

| style="vertical-align: top;"scope="row" |

| style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | 3 (31 May)<br>5 (1 June)

|-

!style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | Imperial German Navy

|style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | (1 June)

| style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | (1 June)

| scope="row" |

| scope="row" | (31 May)<br> (1 June)<br> (1 June)<br> (1 June)<br>

| style="vertical-align: top;" scope="row" | 3 (31 May)<br>2 (1 June)

|}

Abbreviations

Officers killed in action are indicated thus:

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

: 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

thumb|upright|Admiral Sir John R. Jellicoe

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

thumb|Battleship , at anchor

thumb|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<br>

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: Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, in HMS Iron Duke

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

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

:: 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)<br>

: 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)<br>

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

: 3rd Division: 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)<br>

: Vice-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

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

thumb|The light cruiser at anchor

1st Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)<br>

Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet

  • (flagship): Capt Stanley Venn Ellis
  • : Capt Vincent Barkly Molteno
  • : Capt Henry Blackett
  • : Capt Thomas Parry Bonham

2nd Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)

: Rear-Admiral Herbert Heath

  • (flagship): Capt Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughes D'Aeth
  • : 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-Chief

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

Destroyers

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

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

thumb|right|Faulknor-class flotilla leader at speed

thumb|right|Destroyer

thumb| (Cambrian subclass) light cruiser

thumb|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 Flotilla

: 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
  • 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 Flotilla

: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 Flotilla

: 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

Group 8

  • : Cdr Robert Gerald Hamond (from 4th D.F.)
  • : Cdr Richard Anthony Aston Plowden (from 4th D.F.)
  • : Lt Cdr the Hon. Cyril Augustus Ward (from 4th D.F.)
  • : Lt Cdr James Robert Carnegie Cavendish (from 4th D.F.)

3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron

thumb|upright|Rear Admiral 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.<br>

Rear-Admiral The Hon. Horace Hood,

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

Battle Cruiser Fleet

thumb|upright|VAdm Sir David R. Beatty

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

thumb|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.

<br>

Sortied from Firth of Forth soon after 6.00pm 30 May<br>

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
  • : Capt Henry Bertram Pelly.
  • 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron: Rear Admiral William Pakenham,
  • (flagship): Capt John Green
  • (sunk 31 May): Capt Charles Fitzgerald Sowerby

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

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

thumb|Light cruiser

13th Destroyer Flotilla<br>

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): Lt Cdr Dudley Stuart

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

:: 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

thumb|upright|RAdm Hugh Evan-Thomas

thumb|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. <br>

Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas<br>

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

:: (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

thumb|upright|Vizeadmiral Reinhard Scheer

thumb|[[Dreadnought battleship|Dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet steam in a line of battle|alt=A line of nine large gray battleships stretches into the distance, all belching dark black smoke from their funnels]]

thumb|Battleship [[SMS Friedrich der Grosse (1911)|Friedrich der Grosse, VAdm Scheer's flagship]]

thumb|Battleship [[SMS Kaiser (1911)|Kaiser underway]]

thumb|Light cruiser [[SMS Frauenlob|Frauenlob, sunk 31st May]]

thumb|Light cruiser [[SMS Rostock|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.<br />

: 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)

: 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

::: : KptzS Karl Heuser

::: : KptzS Karl Sievers

:: Fleet Flagship (Flaggschiff der Hochseeflotte)

::: : KptzS Theodor Fuchs

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

: 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)

: Konteradmrial

: Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Willy Kahlert

:: 3rd Division: KAdm Mauve

::: (flagship): KptzS Hugo Meurer

::: : KptzS Rudolf Bartels

::: : 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)

: 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

Torpedo boats

German Große Torpedoboote ("large torpedoboats") were the equivalent of British destroyers .<br />

: First Leader of Torpedo-Boats

: Kommodore Andreas Michelsen

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

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

:: 1st Half-Flotilla (1. Halbflottille): 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) : KptLt Theophil Gautier

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

::: : KptLt Martin Delbrück

::: : KptLt Hans Scabell

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

::: (lead boat, half-flotilla) : 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

::: : 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): Korvettenkapitän Hermann Cordes

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

::: : KptLt Arthur von Killinger

::: : OLtzS Wilhelm Keil

Scouting Force

thumb|upright|Vizeadmiral Franz Hipper

thumb|The battlecruiser , Vizeadmiral Hipper's flagship

thumb|Battlecruiser firing a full broadside

thumb| 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

thumb|Light cruiser in 1920

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

: Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Erich Raeder

Battlecruisers

1st Scouting Group (I. Aufklärungsgruppe)<br>

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)

: Konteradmiral Friedrich Boedicker

:: (flagship): KptzS Thilo von Trotha

:: (scuttled 1 June): KFpt Rudolf Madlung

:: : KFpt

:: (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 Heuberer

: 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
  • : 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) : 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
  • (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

thumb|[[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

thumb|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

Notes

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