Order of battle at Jutland


Order of battle at Jutland


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 and Imperial German Navy. The battle involved 250 warships, and, in terms of combined tonnage of vessels engaged, was the largest naval battle in history.

The engagement was the result of the high commands of the two nations' eagerness to give their publics a victory in contrast to the stalemate on the ground in Western Europe (the Battle of Verdun had been underway for three months at the time the opposing fleets sortied). Both navies had plans to lure the other's battlecruisers into a trap where they could be defeated by a superior force of battleships.

In the event, the battle had no impact on the course of the war and victory was claimed by both sides.

Summary

Ships present

  • The British capital ships carried a larger weight of broadside—332,360 lb (150,760 kg) compared to 134,216 lb (60,879 kg)—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

  • Number in parentheses indicates date of loss (31st May or 1st 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

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.

Commander-in-chief, Grand Fleet: Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, in HMS Iron Duke
Second in Command, Grand Fleet: Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, in HMS Marlborough
Chief of Staff: VAdm Sir Charles Edward Madden,
Captain of the Fleet: Cdre Lionel Halsey, C.B., C.M.G., AdC.
Master of the Fleet: Capt Oliver Elles Leggett

Battleships

2nd Battle Squadron (battleships)
Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram
Sortied from Cromarty Firth; rendezvoused with Jellicoe's force around noon 31 May
1st Division: VAdm Jerram
HMS King George V (flagship): Capt Frederick Field
HMS Ajax: Capt George Henry Baird
HMS Centurion: Capt Michael Culme-Seymour
HMS Erin: Capt the Hon. Victor Stanley
2nd Division: RAdm Arthur Leveson
HMS Orion (flagship): Capt Oliver Backhouse
HMS Monarch: Capt George Borrett
HMS Conqueror: Capt Hugh Tothill
HMS Thunderer: Capt James Fergusson
Fleet Flagship (at head of 3rd Division but not part of 4th Battle Squadron)
HMS Iron Duke: Capt Frederic Charles Dreyer
4th Battle Squadron (battleships)
Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet
3rd Division: RAdm Alexander Duff
HMS Royal Oak: Capt Crawford Maclachlan
HMS Superb (flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker
HMS Canada: Capt William 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)
Admiral Sir Cecil Burney
Chief of Staff: Cdre Percy Grant
5th Division: RAdm Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt
HMS Colossus (flagship): Capt Dudley Pound
HMS Collingwood: Capt James Clement Ley
HMS St. Vincent: Capt William Wordsworth Fisher
HMS Neptune Capt Vivian Bernard
6th 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

1st Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)
Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet †
HMS Defence (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Stanley Venn Ellis †
HMS Warrior (sunk 1 June): Capt Vincent Barkly Molteno
HMS Duke of Edinburgh: Capt Henry Blackett
HMS Black Prince (sunk 1 June): Capt Thomas Parry Bonham †
2nd Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)
Rear-Admiral Herbert Leopold Heath
HMS Minotaur (flagship): Capt Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughes D'Aeth
HMS Hampshire: Capt Herbert John Savill
HMS Shannon: Capt John Saumarez Dumaresq
HMS Cochrane: Capt Eustace La Trobe Leatham
4th Light Cruiser Squadron
Commodore 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
Light cruisers attached for repeating visual signals
HMS Boadicea: Capt Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe (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 (destroyer)

Destroyers

4th Destroyer Flotilla
Captain Charles John Wintour †
HMS Tipperary (sunk 1 June) (flotilla leader): Capt Wintour †
First half-flotilla / 4th D.F.
HMS Spitfire: Lt Cdr Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawney
HMS Sparrowhawk (scuttled 1 June following collision): 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 (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 (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Arthur Marsden
HMS Fortune (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Frank Goodrich Terry †
11th Destroyer Flotilla
Commodore Hawksley
HMS Castor (light cruiser)
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
Captain 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  †
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.
Rear-Admiral The Hon. Horace Lambert Alexander Hood  †

Battlecruisers
HMS Invincible (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Arthur Lindesay Cay †
HMS Inflexible: Capt Edward Henry Fitzhardinge Heaton-Ellis
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 (sunk 31 May): 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 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.
Sortied from Firth of Forth soon after 6.00pm 30 May
Vice-Admiral Sir David Richard Beatty in HMS Lion

Chief of Staff: Capt Rudolf Walter Bentinck

Battlecruisers

HMS Lion: (flagship) Capt Alfred Chatfield
1st Battlecruiser Squadron: RAdm Osmond Brock,
HMS Princess Royal (flagship): Capt Walter Henry Cowan,
HMS Queen Mary (sunk 31 May): Capt Cecil Irby Prowse †
HMS Tiger: Capt Henry Bertram Pelly.
2nd Battlecruiser Squadron: RAdm. William Pakenham,.
HMS New Zealand (flagship): Capt John Green
HMS Indefatigable (sunk 31 May): Capt Charles Fitzgerald Sowerby †

Light cruisers

1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair
HMS Galatea Cdre Alexander-Sinclair
HMS Phaeton: Capt John Cameron
HMS Inconstant: Capt Bertram Thesiger
HMS Cordelia: Capt Tufton Beamish
2nd Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre William Goodenough
HMS Southampton: Cdre Goodenough
HMS Birmingham: Capt Arthur Duff
HMS Nottingham: Capt Charles Blois Miller
HMS Dublin: Capt Albert Charles Scott
3rd Light Cruiser Squadron: RAdm Trevylyan Napier
HMS Falmouth (flagship): Capt John Douglas Edwards
HMS Yarmouth: Capt Thomas Drummond Pratt
HMS Birkenhead: Capt Edward Reeves
HMS Gloucester: Capt William Frederick Blunt

Attached vessel

seaplane tender HMS Engadine: Lt Cdr Charles Gwillim Robinson
aircraft: 2 Short Type 184 reconnaissance seaplanes, 2 Sopwith Baby fighter seaplanes

Destroyers

13th Destroyer Flotilla
Captain 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 (sunk 31 May): Cdr the Hon. Edward Bingham
HMS Nomad (sunk 31 May): Lt Cdr Paul Whitfield
HMS Nicator: Lt Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta
HMS Onslow: Lt Cdr John 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 Thomson
HMS Turbulent (sunk 1 June): 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

The 5th Battle Squadron 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.
Rear-Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas
Sortied from Firth of Forth with Battle Cruiser Fleet soon after 6.00pm 30 May

Battleships
HMS Barham (flagship): Capt Arthur William Craig
HMS Valiant: Capt Maurice Woollcombe
HMS Warspite: Capt Edward Montgomery Phillpotts
HMS Malaya: Capt the Hon. Algernon Boyle
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 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

Imperial German Navy

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)
Konteradmrial Paul Behncke
Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Frhr Ernst von Gagern
5th Division: KAdm Behncke
SMS König (flagship): KptzS Friedrich Brüninghaus
SMS Grosser Kurfürst: KptzS Ernst Goette
SMS Kronprinz: KptzS Constanz Feldt
SMS Markgraf: KptzS Karl Seiferling
6th Division: KAdm Hermann Nordmann
SMS Kaiser (flagship): KptzS Walter Freiherr von Keyserlingk
SMS Prinzregent Luitpold: KptzS Karl Heuser
SMS Kaiserin: KptzS Karl Sievers
Fleet Flagship (Flaggschiff der Hochseeflotte)
SMS Friedrich der Grosse: KptzS Theodor Fuchs
1st Battle Squadron (I. Geschwader) (battleships)
Vizeadmiral Ehrhard Schmidt
Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Wolfgang Wegener
1st Division: VAdm Schmidt
SMS Ostfriesland (flagship): KptzS Ernst-Oldwig von Natzmer
SMS Thüringen: KptzS Hans Küsel
SMS Helgoland: KptzS Friedrich von Kameke
SMS Oldenburg: KptzS Wilhelm Höpfner
2nd Division: KAdm Walter Engelhardt
SMS Posen (flagship): KptzS Richard Lange
SMS Rheinland: KptzS Heinrich Rohardt
SMS Nassau: KptzS Robert Kühne
SMS Westfalen: KptzS Johannes Redlich
2nd Battle Squadron (II. Geschwader) (battleships)
Konteradmrial Franz Mauve
Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Willy Kahlert
3rd Division: KAdm Mauve
SMS Deutschland (flagship): KptzS Hugo Meurer
SMS Hessen: KptzS Rudolf Bartels
SMS Pommern (sunk 1st June): KptzS Siegfried Bölken †
4th Division: KAdm Frhr Gottfried von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels
SMS Hannover (flagship): KptzS Wilhlem Heine
SMS Schlesien: KptzS Friedrich Behncke
SMS Schleswig-Holstein: KptzS Eduard Varrentrapp

Light cruisers

4th Scouting Group (IV. Aufklärungsgruppe) (light cruisers)
Kommodore Ludwig von Reuter
Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Weber
SMS Stettin (flagship): FKpt Friedrich Rebensburg
SMS München: KKpt Oscar Böcker
SMS Frauenlob (sunk 31st May): FKpt Georg Hoffman †
SMS Stuttgart: FKpt Max Hagedorn
SMS Hamburg: KKpt Gerhard von Gaudecker

Torpedo boats

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

First Leader of Torpedo-Boats
Kommodore Andreas Michelsen
SMS Rostock (scuttled 1st June) (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
SMS G39 (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Franz-Ferdinand von Loefen
SMS G40: KptLt Richard Beitzen
SMS G38: KptLt Hermann Metger
SMS S32: KptLt Hermann Froelich
3rd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (III. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Hollmann
SMS S53 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Friedrich Götting
5th Half-Flotilla (5. Halbflottille) : KptLt Theophil Gautier
SMS V71 (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Friedrich Ulrich
SMS V73: KptLt Martin Delbrück
SMS G88: KptLt Hans Scabell
6th Half-Flotilla (6. Halbflottille): Korvettenkapitän Theodor Riedel †
SMS V48 (lead boat, half-flotilla) (sunk 31st May): KptLt Friedrich Eckoldt †
SMS S54: KptLt Otto Karlowa
SMS G42: KptLt Bernd von Arnim
5th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (V. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
Korvettenkapitän Oskar Heinecke
SMS G11 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Adolf Müller
9th Half-Flotilla (9. Halbflottille): KptLt Gerhard Hoefer
SMS V2 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Gerhard Hoefer
SMS V4 (sunk 1st June): KptLt Armin Barop
SMS V6: OLtzS Hans Behrendt
SMS V1: OLtzS Hans Röthig
SMS V3: KptLt Manfred von Killinger
10th Half-Flotilla (10. Halbflottille): KptLt Friedrich Klein
SMS G8 (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Ernst Rodenberg
SMS V5: OLtzS Paul Tils
SMS G7: KptLt Johannes Weinecke
SMS G9: KptLt Hans Anschütz
SMS G10: OLtzS Waldemar Haumann
7th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (VII. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
Korvettenkapitän Gottlieb von Koch
SMS S24 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Max Fink
13th Half-Flotilla (13. Halbflottille): KptLt Georg von Zitzewitz
SMS S15 (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Christian Schmidt
SMS S17: KptLt Hans-Joachim von Puttkammer
SMS S20: KptLt Albert Benecke
SMS S16: KptLt Walter Loeffler
SMS S18: KptLt Bruno Haushalter
14th Half-Flotilla (14. Halbflottille): Korvettenkapitän Hermann Cordes
SMS S19 (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Georg Reimer
SMS S23: KptLt Arthur von Killinger
SMS V189: OLtzS Wilhelm Keil

Scouting Force

Commander, Scouting Forces (Befehlshaber die Aufklärungsstreitkräfte): Vizeadmiral Franz Hipper
Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Erich Raeder

Battlecruisers

1st Scouting Group (I. Aufklärungsgruppe)
Vizeadmiral Hipper
SMS Lützow (flagship) (scuttled 1 June): KptzS Victor Harder
SMS Derfflinger: KptzS Johannes Hartog
SMS Seydlitz: KptzS Moritz von Egidy
SMS Moltke: KptzS Johannes von Karpf
SMS Von der Tann: KptzS Hans Zenker

Light cruisers

2nd Scouting Group (II. Aufklärungsgruppe)
Konteradmiral Friedrich Boedicker
SMS Frankfurt (flagship): KptzS Thilo von Trotha
SMS Elbing (scuttled 1 June): KFpt Rudolf Madlung
SMS Pillau: KFpt Konrad Mommsen
SMS Wiesbaden (sunk 1 June): KFpt Fritz Reiß †

Torpedo boats

Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats
Kommodore Paul Heinrich
SMS Regensburg (light cruiser; flagship Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats): KFpt Bruno Heuberer
2nd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (II. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
Commander Heinrich Schuur
SMS B98 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Theodor Hengstenberg
3rd Half-Flotilla (3. Halbflottille): KKpt Heinrich Boest
SMS G101 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Rudolf Schulte
SMS G102: KptLt von Barendorff
SMS B112: KptLt Carl August Claussen
SMS B97: KptLt Leo Riedel
4th Half-Flotilla (4. Halbflottille): KKpt Adolf Dithmar
SMS B109 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Victor Hahndorff
SMS B110: KptLt August Vollheim
SMS B111: KptLt Heinrich Schickhardt
SMS G103: KptLt Fritz Spiess
SMS G104: KptLt Georg von Bartenwerffer
6th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (VI. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
Lieut. Commander Max Schultz
SMS G41 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Hermann Boehm
11th Half-Flotilla (11. Halbflottille) : KptLt Wilhelm Rüman
SMS V44 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Karl von Holleuffer
SMS G87: KptLt Siegfried Karstens
SMS G86: KptLt Kurt Grimm
12th Half-Flotilla (12. Halbflottille): KptLt Rudolf Lahs
SMS V69 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Robert Stecher
SMS V45: KptLt Martin Laßmann
SMS V46: KptLt Bruno Krumhaar
SMS S50: KptLt Philipp Recke
SMS G37: KptLt Wolf von Trotha
9th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (IX. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
Lieut. Commander Herbert Goehle
SMS V28 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Otto Lenssen
17th Half-Flotilla (17. Halbflottille): KptLt Hermann Ehrhardt
SMS V27 (sunk 31 May) (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Hartmut Buddecke
SMS V26: KptLt Hans Köhler
SMS S36: KptLt Franz Fischer
SMS S51: KptLt Werner Dette
SMS S52: KptLt Wilhelm Ehrentraut
18th Half-Flotilla (17. Halbflottille): Korvettenkapitän Werner Tillessen
SMS V30 (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS' Ernst Wolf
SMS S34: KptLt Otto Andersen
SMS S33: KptLt Waldemar von Münch
SMS V29 (sunk 31 May): KptLt Erich Steinbrinck †
SMS S35 (sunk 31 May): KptLt Friedrich Ihn †

Submarines

Leader of Submarines (Führer der Unterseeboote) : KptzS 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: KptLt Leo Hillebrand
U-67: KptLt Hans Nieland
Off the Humber Estuary:
UB-21: KptLt Ernst Hashagen
Off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire:
UB-22: OLtzS Bernhard Putzier
Off the Firth of Forth, Scotland:
U-52: KptLt Hans Walter
U-24: KptLt Rudolf Schneider
U-70: KptLt Otto Wünsche
U-32: KptLt Fahr Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim
U-51: KptLt Walter Rumpfel
U-63: KptLt Otto Schultze
U-66: KptLt Thorwald von Bothmer
Off Peterhead, Scotland:
U-47: KptLt Heinrich Metzger
Off the Pentland Firth (between the Orkneys and the Scottish mainland):
U-44: KptLt Paul Wagenführ
U-43: KptLt 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 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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References

Sources

Print

  • The Admiralty (1920). Battle of Jutland, 30th May to 1st June 1916: Official Despatches with Appendices. London: H.M. Stationery Office.
  • Corbett, Sir Julian (1923). Naval Operations, Volume III. History of the Great War. London: Longmans, Green and Company.
  • Le Fleming, H.M. (1961). Warships of World War I. London: Ian Allan.
  • Frost, Commander Holloway H. (1936). The Battle of Jutland. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
  • Groos, Korvettenkapitän Otto (1925). Der Krieg zur See, 1914-18. Vol. 5: Der Krieg in der Nordsee. Berlin: Verlag von E. S. Mittler & Sohn.
  • Hough, Richard (1964). Dreadnought: A History of the Modern Battleship. New York: MacMillan.
  • Jane, Fred T. (1914). All the World's Fighting Ships. London: Sampson Low Marston.

Web

  • Emmerich, Michael. "German Naval History". Retrieved 24 November 2022.

External links

  • "British Battles: Battle of Jutland". Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  • "Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project". Retrieved 24 November 2022.
  • "NAVAL OPERATIONS, Volume 3, Spring 1915 to June 1916". Retrieved 24 November 2022.

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