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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. Template:Sfn
In the event, although more British ships were sunk or damaged, the overall strategic situation was unchanged.
Summary
Ships present
| Royal Navy | Imperial German Navy | |
|---|---|---|
| Dreadnoughts | 28 in total 8 × 15-inch
10 × 14-inch
10 × 13.5-inch
14 × 12-inch
10 × 12-inch
|
16 in total 10 × 12-in.
12 × 12-in.
12 × 11-in.
|
| Pre-dreadnought battleships | 6 total' 4 × 11-in.
| |
| Battlecruisers | 9 total 8 × 13.5-in.
8 × 12-in.
|
5 total 8 × 12-in (30.5 cm)
10 × 11-in.
8 × 11-in.
|
| Armoured cruisers | 8 total 4 × 9.2-in., 5 × 7.5-in.
4 × 9.2-in., 2 × 7.5-in.
4 × 9.2-in., 5 × 6-in.
3 × 7.5-in., 3 × 6-in.
| |
| 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—Template:Convert compared to Template:Convert—than the German ones.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.Template:Citation needed
Losses
| Pre-dreadnought battleships |
Battlecruisers | Armoured cruisers |
Light cruisers |
Destroyers / Torpedo boats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Navy | Template:HMS (31 May) Template:HMS (31 May) Template:HMS (31 May) |
Template:HMS (31 May) Template:HMS (1 June) Template:HMS (1 June) |
3 (31 May) 5 (1 June) | ||
| Imperial German Navy | Template:SMS (1 June) | Template:SMS (1 June) | Template:SMS (31 May) Template:SMS (1 June) Template:SMS (1 June) Template:SMS (1 June) |
3 (31 May) 2 (1 June) |
Abbreviations
Officers killed in action are indicated thus: Template:KIA
Abbreviations for officers’ ranks (German ranks translated according to current NATO practice)Template:EfnTemplate:Clarify:
- 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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Grand Fleet
Began sortie from Scapa Flow 9.30pm 28 MayTemplate:Sfn
The Grand Fleet<ref name="JutlandDesp1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Corbett">Corbett, Naval Operations Vol. III Appendix A Template:Webarchive</ref> 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
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Frederick Field
- Template:HMS: Capt George Henry Baird
- Template:HMS: Capt Michael Culme-Seymour
- Template:HMS: Capt the Hon. Victor Stanley
- 2nd Division: Rear Admiral Arthur Leveson
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Oliver Backhouse
- Template:HMS: Capt George Borrett
- Template:HMS: Capt Hugh Tothill
- Template:HMS: Capt James Fergusson
- Fleet Flagship (at head of 3rd Division but not part of 4th Battle Squadron)
4th Battle Squadron (battleships)
- Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet
- 3rd Division:Template:Efn RAdm Alexander Duff
- Template:HMS: Capt Crawford Maclachlan
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker
- Template:HMS: Capt William Nicholson
- 4th Division: VAdm Sturdee
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Henry Wise Parker
- Template:HMS: Capt Edward Francis Bruen
- Template:HMS: Capt Edwin Veale Underhill
- Template:HMS: 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
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Dudley Pound
- Template:HMS: Capt James Clement Ley
- Template:HMS: Capt William Wordsworth Fisher
- Template:HMS Capt Vivian Bernard
- 6th Division: VAdm Burney
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt George Parish Ross
- Template:HMS: Capt Edward Buxton Kiddle
- Template:HMS: Capt Lewis Clinton-Baker
- Template:HMS: Capt Henry Montagu Doughty
Cruisers
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1st Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)Template:Efn
Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet Template:KIA
- Template:HMS Template:Font color (flagship): Capt Stanley Venn EllisTemplate:KIA
- Template:HMS Template:Font color: Capt Vincent Barkly Molteno
- Template:HMS: Capt Henry Blackett
- Template:HMS Template:Font color: Capt Thomas Parry BonhamTemplate:KIA
2nd Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)Template:Efn
- Rear-Admiral Herbert Heath
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughes D'Aeth Template:Efn
- Template:HMS: Capt Herbert John Savill
- Template:HMS: Capt John Saumarez Dumaresq
- Template:HMS: Capt Eustace La Trobe Leatham
- Commodore Charles Edward Le Mesurier
- Template:HMS: Commodore Le Mesurier
- Template:HMS: Capt Cyril Samuel Townsend
- Template:HMS: Capt Alan Hotham
- Template:HMS: Capt Henry Crooke
- Template:HMS: Capt the Hon. Herbert Meade
Light cruisers attached for repeating visual signals
- Template:HMS: Capt Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe (attached to 2nd B.S.)
- Template:HMS: Capt Percy Withers (attached to Fleet Flagship)
- Template:HMS: Capt John Casement (attached to 4th B.S.)
- Template:HMS: Capt Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton (attached to 1st B.S.)
Other ships under direct command of the Commander-in-ChiefTemplate:Efn
- Template:HMS: Cdr Berwick Curtis (fast minelayer)
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Douglas Faviell (tender to the flagship of the Grand Fleet)
Destroyers
4th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Efn
- Captain Charles John WintourTemplate:KIA
- Template:HMS (Faulknor-class flotilla leader, sunk 1 June) : Capt WintourTemplate:KIA
- First half-flotilla / 4th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawney
- Template:HMS (scuttled 1 June following collision): Lt Cdr Sydney Hopkins
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Reginald Stannus Goff
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Ernald Gilbert Hoskins Master
- Group 8 / 4th D.F.Template:Efn
- Template:HMS: Cdr Robert Gerald Hamond
- Template:HMS: Cdr Richard Anthony Aston Plowden
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr the Hon. Cyril Augustus Ward (from 12th D.F.)
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr James Robert Carnegie Cavendish
- Group 8 / 4th D.F.Template:Efn
- Second half-flotilla / 4th D.F.
- Template:HMS (Template:Sclass): Cdr Walter Lingen Allen
- 3rd Division / 4th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr Hugh Davenport Colville
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Arthur Macaulay Lecky
- 4th Division / 4th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr Reginald Becher Caldwell Hutchinson, D.S.C.
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Gordon Alston Coles
- Template:HMS (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Arthur Marsden
- Template:HMS (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Frank Goodrich TerryTemplate:KIA
11th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Efn
- Commanded by Commodore Hawksley in Template:HMS, a light cruiser
- First half-flotilla / 11th D.F.
- 1st Division / 11th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr Harold Victor Dundas
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Julian Harrison
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Gerald Charles Wynter
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Henry Clive Rawlings
- 2nd Division / 11th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr Claud Finlinson Allsup
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Robert Makin
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Edward McConnell Wyndham Lawrie
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Claude Lindsay Bate
- 1st Division / 11th D.F.
- Second half-flotilla/11th D.F.
- Template:HMS (Marksman-class flotilla leader): Cdr Harold Ernest Sulivan
- 3rd Division / 11th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr George Bibby Hartford
- Template:HMS: Lt Charles Granville Naylor
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Gerald Harrison
- 4th Division / 11th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr (Acting) William Dion Irvin
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Ralph Vincent Eyre
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Hugh Undecimus Fletcher
- 3rd Division / 11th D.F.
12th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Efn
- Captain Anselan John Buchanan Stirling
- Template:HMS (Faulknor-class flotilla leader): Capt Stirling
- First half-flotilla / 12th D.F.
- 1st Division / 12th D.F.<ref name="JutlandDesp1div12df">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:HMS: Cdr George William McOran Campbell
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr John Jackson Cuthbert Ridley
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Reginald Watkins Grubb
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Arthur Gerald Onslow Template:KIA
- 2nd Division / 12th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr John Pelham Champion
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Henry Victor Hudson
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Eric Quentin Carter
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Henry Percy Boxer
- 1st Division / 12th D.F.<ref name="JutlandDesp1div12df">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Second half-flotilla / 12th D.F.: Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan
- Template:HMS (Marksman-class flotilla leader): Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan
- Template:HMS: Cdr Charles Geoffrey Coleridge Sumner
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Herbert Inglis Nigel Lyon
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Charles Astley Poignand
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Spencer Francis Russell
- Template:HMS: 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 Hood,Template:KIA
- Battlecruisers
- Template:HMS (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Arthur Lindesay CayTemplate:KIA
- Template:HMS: Capt Edward Heaton-Ellis
- Template:HMS: Capt Francis William Kennedy
- Accompanying cruisers
- Template:HMS :Template:Efn Capt Percy Royds
- Template:HMS :Template:Efn Capt Robert Neale Lawson
- Attached destroyers Template:Efn
- Template:HMS (sunk 31 May): Cdr Loftus William JonesTemplate:KIA
- Template:HMS: Cdr Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe (Admiralty M-class destroyer)
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Fairfax Moresby Kerr
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr John Ouchterlony Barron
Battle Cruiser Fleet
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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 MayTemplate:Sfn
Vice-Admiral Sir David Richard Beatty in HMS Lion
- Chief of Staff: Capt Rudolph Bentinck
Battlecruisers
Template:HMS: (flagship) Captain Ernle Chatfield
- 1st Battlecruiser Squadron: Rear Admiral Osmond Brock on Princess Royal
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Walter Cowan,
- Template:HMS (sunk 31 May): Capt Cecil ProwseTemplate:KIA
- Template:HMS: Capt Henry Bertram Pelly.
- 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron:Template:Efn Rear Admiral William Pakenham,
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt John Green
- Template:HMS (sunk 31 May): Capt Charles Fitzgerald SowerbyTemplate:KIA
Light cruisers
- 1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair
- Template:HMS Cdre Alexander-Sinclair
- Template:HMS: Capt John Cameron
- Template:HMS: Capt Bertram Thesiger
- Template:HMS: Capt Tufton Beamish
- 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre William Goodenough
- Template:HMS: Cdre Goodenough
- Template:HMS: Capt Arthur Duff
- Template:HMS: Capt Charles Blois Miller
- Template:HMS: Capt Albert Charles Scott
- 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron: Rear Admiral Trevylyan Napier
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt John Douglas Edwards
- Template:HMS: Capt Thomas Drummond Pratt
- Template:HMS: Capt Edward Reeves
- Template:HMS: Capt William Frederick Blunt
Attached to the light cruisers was the seaplane tender Template:HMS (Lt Cdr Charles Gwillim Robinson) carrying two Short Type 184 reconnaissance seaplanes and two Sopwith Baby fighter seaplanes.
Destroyers
13th Destroyer FlotillaTemplate:Refn
Captain James Uchtred Farie
- Template:HMS (light cruiser): Capt Farie
- 1st Division / 13th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Cecil Henry Hulton Sams
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Montague George Bentinck Legge
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Cuthbert Patrick Blake (attached from 10th D.F., Harwich Force)
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Roger Vincent Alison (detached to escort HMS Engadine)
- 2nd Division / 13th D.F.<ref name="JutlandDesp2div13df">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:HMS (sunk 31 May): Cdr the Hon. Edward Bingham
- Template:HMS (sunk 31 May): Lt Cdr Paul Whitfield
- Template:HMS: Lt Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr John Tovey (detached to escort HMS Engadine)
- 3rd Division / 13th D.F.<ref name="JutlandDesp3div13df">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Geoffrey Corlett
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Kenneth Adair Beattie
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Evelyn Thomson
- Template:HMS (sunk 1 June):Template:Efn Lt Cdr Dudley StuartTemplate:KIA
- Attached Harwich Destroyers (9th Destroyer Flotilla): Cdr Malcolm Lennon GoldsmithTemplate:Refn
- 1st division / 9th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr Goldsmith
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Philip Wilfred Sidney King
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Francis Edward Henry Graham Hobart
- 2nd division / 9th D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr John Coombe Hodgson (from 10th D.F.)
- Template:HMS: Lt Henry Dawson Crawford Stanistreet
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Edward Sidney Graham (from 10th D.F.)
- 1st division / 9th D.F.
5th Battle Squadron
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The 5th Battle Squadron was a special unit of fast Template:Sclasss, 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
- Template:HMS (flagship): Capt Arthur William Craig
- Template:HMS: Capt Maurice Woollcombe
- Template:HMS: Capt Edward Montgomery Phillpotts
- Template:HMS: Capt the Hon. Algernon Boyle
- 1st Destroyer Flotilla Template:Efn <ref name="JutlandDesp1df1">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="JutlandDesp1df2">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Template:HMS (light cruiser): Capt Charles Donnison Roper
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Laurence Reynolds Palmer
- 1st Division / 1st D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr Charles Ramsey
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Arthur Grendon Tippet
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Charles Herbert Neill James
- Template:HMS: Lt Francis George Glossop
- 2nd Division / 1st D.F.
- Template:HMS: Cdr Charles Albert Fremantle
- Template:HMS: Lt Cdr Edward Brooke
- Template:HMS: Cdr Dashwood Fowler Moir
- Template:HMS: 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.<ref name=Groos>Groos, Nordsee vol.5. Anlage 6., pp 466-470 and Anlage 7., pp.471-472 (in German).</ref><ref name=Frost>Frost, Jutland, Appendix 1, pp. 533-538.</ref>
- 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
- Template:SMS (flagship): KptzS Friedrich Brüninghaus
- Template:SMS: KptzS Ernst Goette
- Template:SMS: KptzS Constanz Feldt
- Template:SMS: KptzS Karl Seiferling
- 5th Division: KAdm Behncke
- 6th Division: KAdm Hermann Nordmann
- Template:SMS (flagship): KptzS Template:Ill
- Template:SMS: KptzS Karl Heuser
- Template:SMS: KptzS Karl Sievers
- 6th Division: KAdm Hermann Nordmann
- Fleet Flagship (Flaggschiff der Hochseeflotte)Template:Efn
- Template:SMS: KptzS Theodor Fuchs
- Fleet Flagship (Flaggschiff der Hochseeflotte)Template:Efn
- 1st Battle Squadron (I. Geschwader) (battleships)Template:Efn
- Vizeadmiral Ehrhard Schmidt
- Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Wolfgang Wegener
- 1st Division: VAdm Schmidt
- Template:SMS (flagship): KptzS Ernst-Oldwig von Natzmer
- Template:SMS: KptzS Hans Küsel
- Template:SMS: KptzS Friedrich von Kameke
- Template:SMS: KptzS Wilhelm Höpfner
- 1st Division: VAdm Schmidt
- 2nd Division: KAdm Walter Engelhardt
- Template:SMS (flagship): KptzS Richard Lange
- Template:SMS: KptzS Heinrich Rohardt
- Template:SMS: KptzS Robert Kühne
- Template:SMS: KptzS Johannes Redlich
- 2nd Division: KAdm Walter Engelhardt
- 2nd Battle Squadron (II. Geschwader) (battleships)Template:Efn
- Konteradmrial Template:Ill
- Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Willy Kahlert
- 3rd Division: KAdm Mauve
- Template:SMS (flagship): KptzS Hugo Meurer
- Template:SMS: KptzS Rudolf Bartels
- Template:SMS Template:Font color: KptzS Siegfried BölkenTemplate:KIA
- 3rd Division: KAdm Mauve
- 4th Division: KAdm Frhr Gottfried von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels
- Template:SMS (flagship): KptzS Wilhlem Heine
- Template:SMS: KptzS Friedrich Behncke
- Template:SMS: KptzS Eduard Varrentrapp
- 4th Division: KAdm Frhr Gottfried von Dalwigk zu Lichtenfels
Light cruisers
- IV. Aufklärungsgruppe ("4th Scouting Group", light cruisers)Template:Efn
- Kommodore Ludwig von Reuter
- Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Heinrich Weber
- Template:SMS (flagship): FKpt Friedrich Rebensburg
- Template:SMS: KKpt Oscar Böcker
- Template:SMS (sunk 31st May): FKpt Georg HoffmanTemplate:KIA
- Template:SMS: FKpt Max Hagedorn
- Template:SMS: 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
- Template:SMS Template:Font color (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
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Franz-Ferdinand von Loefen
- Template:SMS: KptLt Richard Beitzen
- Template:SMS: KptLt Hermann Metger
- Template:SMS: KptLt Hermann Froelich
- 1st Half-Flotilla (1. Halbflottille):Template:Efn KptLt Conrad Albrecht
- 3rd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (III. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
- Korvettenkapitän Wilhelm Hollmann
- Template:SMS (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Friedrich Götting
- 5th Half-Flotilla (5. Halbflottille) :Template:Efn KptLt Theophil Gautier
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Friedrich Ulrich
- Template:SMS: KptLt Martin Delbrück
- Template:SMS: KptLt Hans Scabell
- 6th Half-Flotilla (6. Halbflottille):Template:Efn Korvettenkapitän Theodor RiedelTemplate:KIATemplate:Efn
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla) Template:Font color: KptLt Friedrich EckoldtTemplate:KIA
- Template:SMS: KptLt Otto Karlowa
- Template:SMS: KptLt Bernd von Arnim
- 5th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (V. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
- Korvettenkapitän Oskar Heinecke
- Template:SMS (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Adolf Müller
- 9th Half-Flotilla (9. Halbflottille): KptLt Gerhard Hoefer
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Gerhard Hoefer
- Template:SMS Template:Font color: KptLt Armin Barop
- Template:SMS: OLtzS Hans Behrendt
- Template:SMS: OLtzS Hans Röthig
- Template:SMS: KptLt Manfred von Killinger
- 10th Half-Flotilla (10. Halbflottille): KptLt Friedrich Klein
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Ernst Rodenberg
- Template:SMS: OLtzS Paul Tils
- Template:SMS: KptLt Johannes Weinecke
- Template:SMS: KptLt Hans Anschütz
- Template:SMS: OLtzS Waldemar Haumann
- 9th Half-Flotilla (9. Halbflottille): KptLt Gerhard Hoefer
- 7th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (VII. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
- Korvettenkapitän Gottlieb von Koch
- Template:SMS (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Max Fink
- 13th Half-Flotilla (13. Halbflottille): KptLt Georg von Zitzewitz
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Christian Schmidt
- Template:SMS: KptLt Hans-Joachim von Puttkammer
- Template:SMS: KptLt Albert Benecke
- Template:SMS: KptLt Walter Loeffler
- Template:SMS: KptLt Bruno Haushalter
- 14th Half-Flotilla (14. Halbflottille):Template:Efn Korvettenkapitän Hermann Cordes
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Georg Reimer
- Template:SMS: KptLt Arthur von Killinger
- Template:SMS: OLtzS Wilhelm Keil
Scouting Force
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- Commander, Scouting Forces (Befehlshaber die Aufklärungsstreitkräfte): Vizeadmiral Franz Hipper
- Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Erich RaederTemplate:Efn
Battlecruisers
1st Scouting Group (I. Aufklärungsgruppe)
Vizeadmiral Hipper
- Template:SMS (flagship) (scuttled 1 June): KptzS Victor Harder
- Template:SMS: KptzS Johannes Hartog
- Template:SMS: KptzS Moritz von Egidy
- Template:SMS: KptzS Johannes von Karpf
- Template:SMS: KptzS Hans Zenker
Light cruisers
- 2nd Scouting Group (II. Aufklärungsgruppe) Template:Efn
- Konteradmiral Friedrich Boedicker
- Template:SMS (flagship): KptzS Thilo von Trotha
- Template:SMS (scuttled 1 June): KFpt Rudolf Madlung
- Template:SMS: KFpt Template:Ill
- Template:SMS (sunk 1 June): KFpt Fritz ReißTemplate:KIA
Torpedo boats
- Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats
- Kommodore Paul Heinrich
- Template:SMS (light cruiser; flagship Second Leader of Torpedo-Boats): KFpt Bruno HeubererTemplate:Efn
- II. Torpedoboots-Flottille (2nd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla )
- Commander Heinrich Schuur
- Template:SMS (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Theodor Hengstenberg
- 3. Halbflottille (3rd Half-Flotilla) KKpt Heinrich Boest
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Rudolf Schulte
- Template:SMS: KptLt von Barendorff
- Template:SMS: KptLt Template:Ill
- Template:SMS: KptLt Leo Riedel
- 4. Halbflottille (4th Half-Flotilla): KKpt Adolf Dithmar
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Victor Hahndorff
- Template:SMS: KptLt August Vollheim
- Template:SMS: KptLt Heinrich Schickhardt
- Template:SMS: KptLt Fritz Spiess
- Template:SMS: KptLt Georg von Bartenwerffer
VI. Torpedoboots-Flottille (6th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla)
- Lieut. Commander Max Schultz
- Template:SMS (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Hermann Boehm
- 11. Halbflottille (11th Half-Flotilla) :Template:Efn KptLt Wilhelm Rüman
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Karl von Holleuffer
- Template:SMS: KptLt Siegfried Karstens
- Template:SMS: KptLt Kurt Grimm
- 12. Halbflottille (12th Half-Flotilla) KptLt Rudolf Lahs
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Robert Stecher
- Template:SMS: KptLt Martin Laßmann
- Template:SMS: KptLt Bruno Krumhaar
- Template:SMS: KptLt Philipp Recke
- Template:SMS: KptLt Wolf von Trotha
IX. Torpedoboots-Flottille (9th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla)
- Lieut. Commander Herbert Goehle
- Template:SMS (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Otto Lenssen
- 17. Halbflottille (17th Half-Flotilla ): KptLt Hermann Ehrhardt
- Template:SMS (sunk 31 May, lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Hartmut Buddecke
- Template:SMS: KptLt Hans Köhler
- Template:SMS: KptLt Franz Fischer
- Template:SMS: KptLt Werner Dette
- Template:SMS: KptLt Wilhelm Ehrentraut
- 18. Halbflottille (18th Half-Flotilla): Korvettenkapitän Template:Ill
- Template:SMS (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS' Ernst Wolf
- Template:SMS: KptLt Otto Andersen
- Template:SMS: KptLt Waldemar von Münch
- Template:SMS (sunk 31 May): KptLt Erich SteinbrinckTemplate:KIA
- Template:SMS (sunk 31 May): KptLt Friedrich IhnTemplate:KIA
Submarines
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:
- Template:SMU: KptLt Leo Hillebrand
- Template:SMU: KptLt Hans Nieland
- Off the Humber Estuary:
- Template:SMU: KptLt Ernst Hashagen
- Off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire:
- Template:SMU: OLtzS Bernhard Putzier
- Off the Firth of Forth, Scotland:
- Template:SMU: KptLt Hans Walter
- Template:SMU: KptLt Rudolf Schneider
- Template:SMU: KptLt Otto Wünsche
- Template:SMU: KptLt Fahr Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim
- Template:SMU: KptLt Walter Rumpfel
- Template:SMU: KptLt Otto Schultze
- Template:SMU: KptLt Thorwald von Bothmer
- Off Peterhead, Scotland:
- Template:SMU: KptLt Heinrich Metzger
- Off the Pentland Firth (between the Orkneys and the Scottish mainland):
- Template:SMU: KptLt Paul Wagenführ
- Template:SMU: KptLt Helmuth Jürst
Airships
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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
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