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N.J. FjordNotes: A small Danish tramp steamer.
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"[A] silent ship with a pyramid of white canvas, serene, peaceful and quiet, ... a large barque lying almost becalmed, but moving gently through the water, rippling with the light breeze, her canvas only half filled"Notes: Probably the Norwegian barque Candace
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Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty
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Rear Admiral O. de Brock
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HMS Lion (flagship) (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Captain A.E.M. ChatfieldCrew: Gunnery Officer Commander G.F. Longhurst, Chief Gunner Mr. (later Captain) A. GrantNotes: Repairs at Rosyth and Tyneside, rejoined the fleet on 19th July without Q turret, which was replaced 6th - 23rd September. See also 1.
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HMS Princess Royal (2nd flagship) (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Captain W.H. CowanCrew: Gunnery Officer Commander C.B. PrickettNotes: Refit & repair at Portsmouth, rejoined the fleet on 15th July. See also 1.
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HMS Queen Mary (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain C.I. ProwseCrew: Gunnery Officer Commander R.H. LlewellynNotes: 1
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HMS Tiger (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Captain H.B. PellyNotes: Under repair at Rosyth, rejoined the fleet on 2nd July. See also 1.
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Rear Admiral W.C. Packenham
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HMS New Zealand (flagship)Commanding officer: Captain JFE. Green
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HMS Indefatigable (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain C.A. Selby †(killed)
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Commodore E.S. Alexander-Sinclair
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HMS Galatea (flagship)
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HMS PhaetonCommanding officer: Commander JE Cameron
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HMS InconstantCommanding officer: Capt. BS Thesiger
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HMS CordeliaCommanding officer: Capt. TPH Beamish
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Commodore W.E. Goodenough
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HMS Southampton (flagship) (seriously damaged)
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HMS BirminghamCommanding officer: Captain A.A.M. Duff
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HMS NottinghamCommanding officer: Captain C.B. Miller
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HMS Dublin (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Captain A.C. Scott
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Rear Admiral TDW. Napier
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HMS Falmouth (flagship)Commanding officer: Captain J.D. Edwards
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HMS YarmouthCommanding officer: Captain T.D. PrattNotes: Linking ship between light cruiser screen and VABCF.
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HMS BirkenheadCommanding officer: Capt. E Reeves
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HMS GloucesterCommanding officer: Capt. WF Blunt
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HMS EngadineCommanding officer: Lt.Commander C.G. Robinson
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4 Short Type 184 seaplanes
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Planned to be ready to attack Zeppelins off the Horns Reef on 1st June 1916, where the ships would be escorted by light cruisers and destroyers.
HMS Onslow and HMS Moresby detached from 1DF to escort HMS Engadine while sending up floatplanes at 1447, 31st May.
Launched 1 a/c at 1508, Ft.Lt. F.J. Rutland and Assistant Paymaster G.S.Trewin, observer; forced to fly very low because of low clouds, fired at by SMS Frankfurt, Pillau and Elbing , and reported light cruisers' change of course to VABCS. Burst a petrol pipe at 1547, and recovered at 1600.
Cloud base at 1000' to 1200', patches below 900'.
The sea became too rough to launch other a/c after 1530.
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HMS ChampionCommanding officer: Captain J.U. Farie (D.13)Notes: C class cruiser
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HMS Nestor (sunk)Commanding officer: Commander the Hon. E.B.S. BinghamNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS Nomad (sunk)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander P.WhitfieldNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS NarboroughCommanding officer: Lt. Commander G. CorlettNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS ObdurateCommanding officer: Lt. Commander C.H.H. SamsNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS PetardCommanding officer: Lt. Commander E.C.O. ThompsonNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS PelicanCommanding officer: Lt. Commander K.L. BeattieNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS Onslow (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander J.C. ToveyNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MoresbyCommanding officer: Lt. Commander R.V. AllisonNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS NicatorCommanding officer: Lt. Commander J.E.A. MocattaNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS NerissaCommanding officer: Lt. commander M.C.B. LeggeNotes: Yarrow M class destroyer
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HMS LydiardCommanding officer: Commander M.L. GoldsmithNotes: L class destroyer
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HMS LibertyCommanding officer: LtCdr. PWS KingNotes: L class destroyer
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HMS LandrailCommanding officer: Lt. Commander F.E.G.H HobartNotes: L class destroyer
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HMS LaurelCommanding officer: Lt. HDC StanistreetNotes: L class destroyer
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Rear Admiral Hugh Evans-Thomas
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HMS FearlessCommanding officer: Captain C.D. Roper (D.1)Notes: Active class cruiser
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HMS AcheronCommanding officer: Cdr. CG RamseyNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS ArielCommanding officer: LtCdr. TippetNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS AttackCommanding officer: LtCdr. CHN JamesNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS HydraCommanding officer: Lt. FG GlossopNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS BadgerCommanding officer: Lt. Commander C.A. FremantleNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS GoshawkCommanding officer: Cdr. DF MoirNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS Defender (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander LR. PalmerNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS LizardCommanding officer: LtCdr. E BrookeNotes: I class destroyer
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HMS LapwingCommanding officer: LtCdr. AH GyeNotes: I class destroyer
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Admiral Sir John Jellicoe
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Vice Admiral Sir Martyn Jerram
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Rear Admiral Arthur Leveson
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Vice Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee
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Rear Admiral Duff
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HMS ActiveCommanding officer: Captain P.WithersNotes: Attached to fleet flagship, HMS Iron Duke.
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HMS OakCommanding officer: LtCdr. D FaviellNotes: Destroyer tender to fleet flagship, HMS Iron Duke.
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HMS AbdielCommanding officer: Commander CurtisNotes:
Marksman class destroyer-minelayer.
Planned to lay a minefield to the SW of the Vyl lightship on the night of 31st May / 1st June.
Detached at 2315, 31st May to lay 30 mines 15 miles SW by W of the Vyl lightship, to the west of a similar line laid on 4th May. Mines laid 0224-0300.
SMS Ostfriesland struck a mine in the 4th May line at 0620, 1st June.
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Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Burney
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Rear Admiral E.F.A. Gaunt
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HMS Marlborough (flagship) (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Captain G.P. RossNotes: Repairs completed 2nd August. See also 1.
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Rear Admiral Sir Robert Arbuthnot, Bt. †(killed)
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HMS Defence (flagship) (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain S.V. Ellis †(killed)
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HMS Warrior (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain V.B. Molteno
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HMS Duke of EdinburgCommanding officer: Captain H. Blackett
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HMS Black Prince (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain T.P. Bonham †(killed)
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Rear Admiral H.L. Heath
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HMS Minotaur (flagship)Commanding officer: Captain C.S.H. D'Aeth
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HMS HampshireCommanding officer: Capt. HJ Savill
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HMS CochraneCommanding officer: Capt. E la T Leatham
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HMS ShannonCommanding officer: Capt. JS Dumaresq
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HMS Tipperary (flagship) (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain C.J. Wintour (D.4) †(killed)Notes: Destroyer leader
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HMS Broke (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Commander AL WilsonNotes: Destroyer leader
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HMS OpheliaCommanding officer: Commander LGE CrabbeNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer. Escorting 3BCS.
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HMS AchatesCommanding officer: Commander HutchinsonNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS PorpoiseCommanding officer: Cdr. HD ColvilleNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS Spitfire (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander C.W.E. TrelawnyNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS UnityCommanding officer: Lt. Commander AM LeckyNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS GarlandCommanding officer: Lt. Commander R.S. GoffNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS AmbuscadeCommanding officer: Lt. Commander G.A. ColesNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS Ardent (sunk)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander A. Marsden †(killed)Notes: K class destroyer.
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HMS Fortune (sunk)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander F.G,. Terry †(killed)Notes: K class destroyer.
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HMS Sparrowhawk (sunk)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander S. HopkinsNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS ContestCommanding officer: Lt. Commander EGH MasterNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS Shark (sunk)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander L.W. Jones †(killed)Notes: K class destroyer. Escorting 3BCS.
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HMS Acasta (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander J.O. BarronNotes: K class destroyer. Escorting 3BCS.
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HMS ChristopherCommanding officer: Lt. Commander F.M. KerrNotes: K class destroyer. Escorting 3BCS.
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HMS OwlCommanding officer: Cdr. RG HamondNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS HardyCommanding officer: Cdr. RAA PlowdenNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS MidgeCommanding officer: LtCdr. JRC CavendishNotes: K class destroyer.
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HMS Castor (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Commodore J.R.P. Hawksley, Commodore (F)
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HMS KempenfeltCommanding officer: Commander HE SullivanNotes: Destroyer leader
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HMS OssoryCommanding officer: Cdr. HV DundasNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MysticCommanding officer: Cdr. CF AllsupNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MagicCommanding officer: LtCdr. GC WynterNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MandateCommanding officer: LtCdr. E McCW LawrieNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MinionCommanding officer: LtCdr. HC RawlingsNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MartialCommanding officer: LtCdr. J HarrisonNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MilbrookCommanding officer: Lt. CG NaylorNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MarneCommanding officer: LtCdr. GB HartfordNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MannersCommanding officer: LtCdr. GC HarrisonNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MichaelCommanding officer: LtCdr. CL BateNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MonsCommanding officer: LtCdr. R MakinNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS 3 Yarrow M class destroyersNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS Morning StarCommanding officer: LtCdr. HU FletcherNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MounseyCommanding officer: LtCdr RV EyreNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MoonCommanding officer: Cdr. WD IrvinNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS FaulknorCommanding officer: Captain A.J.B. Stirling, D.12Notes: Destroyer leader
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HMS MarksmanCommanding officer: Cdr. NA Sullivan (Flag, 2nd Half Flotilla)Notes: Destroyer leader
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HMS ObedientCommanding officer: Cdr GW McO CampbellNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MaenadCommanding officer: Cdr. JP ChampionNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS OpalCommanding officer: Cdr. GC SumnerNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS Mary RoseCommanding officer: LtCdr. EA HomanNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MarvelCommanding officer: LtCdr. TW GrubbNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MenaceCommanding officer: LtCdr CA PoignandNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS NessusCommanding officer: LtCdr. EQ CarterNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS NarwhalCommanding officer: LtCdr. HV HudsonNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MindfulCommanding officer: Lt Cdr JJC RidleyNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS Onslaught (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Lt. Commander A.G. Onslow, DSC †(killed)Notes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MunsterCommanding officer: LtCdr. SF RussellNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS NonsuchCommanding officer: LtCdr HIN LyonNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS NobelCommanding officer: LtCdr. HP BoxerNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS MischiefCommanding officer: LtCdr. CA WardNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer
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HMS CampaniaCommanding officer: Captain O. SchwannNotes: Missed the signal to sail, weighed anchor 2 hours late at 2345, but ordered back to Scapa at 0437. HMS Campania could have caught up with the Grand Fleet at about 1330 on 31st May.
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10 aircraft, type unknown.
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Rear Admiral the Hon. H.A. Hood †(killed)
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HMS Invincible (flagship) (sunk)Commanding officer: Captain A.L. Cay †(killed)Crew: Gunnery Officer Commander H. Dannreither †(killed)Notes: 1
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HMS Carysfoot (flagship)Commanding officer: Commodore R. Tyrwhitt
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HMS Arethusa
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HMS Cleopoatra
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HMS Conquest
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HMS Penelope
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HMS Undaunted
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HMS LightfootNotes: Marksman class destroyer, destroyer leader.
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HMS LarkNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LaverockNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LinnetNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LaertesNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LaforeyNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LanceNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LawfordNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LegionNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LennoxNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LeonidasNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LlewellynNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LookoutNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LoyalNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LuciferNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LysanderNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LassooNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS LochinarNotes: L class destroyer.
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HMS Aurora
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HMS NimrodNotes: Destroyer leader.
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HMS ManlyNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MansfieldNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MatchlessNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MentorNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MeteorNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MilneNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MinosNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MirandaNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MurrayNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
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HMS MyngsNotes: Admiralty M class destroyer.
- 14 November 1914
A letter of 14th November 1914 from the Admiralty to C-in-C GF promised the C-in-C that the Harwich Force would join him if a fleet action was imminent. This was overlooked or forgotten by the Admiralty on 30th May.
- 30 May 1916, 1755
Admiralty informed the C-in-C that the Harwich force, 3BS and 3CS would not be sent to sea until more was known of the German objectives.
- 30 May 1916, 1820
The Harwich Force was ordered to be ready to sail at daylight if required.
- 30 May 1916, 2235
The orders were modified to hold the Force at one hour’s notice.
The Harwich force would have had to have sailed by 2000, 30th May, to have reached Beatty’s rendezvous point, sailing at 18 knots.
- 31 May 1916, 0435
Tyrwhitt sent an urgent telegram to the Admiralty, reminding them that he had received no further orders. The reply was to remain at one hour's notice, as no further indication of the enemy’s objectives had been received.
Tyrwhitt would have had to have sailed at 0500 on the 31st to have reached Jellicoe before dark.
- 31 May 1916, 1645
The Harwich Force sailed without orders with 5 light cruisers, 2 destroyer leaders and 16 destroyers (I am unsure as to which 16 destroyers sailed.)
- 31 May 1916, 1712
The Harwich Force was ordered back to Harwich to await further orders by the Admiralty, when at the Cork light vessel of the mouth of the River Orwell.
- 1 June 1916, 0252
The Harwich Force was finally ordered to join the Grand Fleet when all fear of a combined raid by a detachment of the HSF and the German destroyers in Belgian ports on the Channel had passed.
- 1 June 1916, 0350
The Harwich Force sails.
- 24-30 May 1916
E16, E23, E37, H9
- 1 June 1916, 1200
D3, V1, H10 sailed from Harwich to relieve the 24 May 1916 patrol.
- 30 May 1916, evening
HMS Lurcher,E31, E53, D6 left Harwich to patrol positions off Southwold, midway to the Dutch coast.
- 30 May 1916, evening
E55, E26, D1 left Harwich for the Vyl light.
- 31 May 1916, 1200
HMS Talisman, G2, G3, G4, G5 left Harwich for a patrol position on the SE side of the Dogger Bank.
- 24-28 May 1916
G3, G4
- 28 May 1916
G6, E42 sailed from Blythe to relieve 24 May 1916 patrol.
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HMS DreadnoughtNotes: Refitting, then to 3BS, Sheerness. See also 1.
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HMS MenelausCommanding officer: Cmdr. C.W.N. McCullochNotes: Kite balloon ship. Unable to raise steam in time to sail with the Fleet, left Scapa at 0130; ordered back with defects at 0430, May 31.
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HMS Royal SovereignCommanding officer: Capt. A.T. HuntNotes: Remained in port. Joined GF 25th May 1916, not yet worked up.
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HMAS AustraliaCommanding officer: Capt. S.H. RadcliffeNotes: Repairing collision with HMS New Zealand, Devonport. Rejoined 9th June.
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HMS Queen ElizabethCommanding officer: Capt. G.P.W. HopeNotes: Refitting at Rosyth dockyard; in 30th May 1916, out 1st June 1916.
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HMS Emperor of IndiaCommanding officer: Capt. C.W.R. RoydsNotes: In the floating dock at Invergordon until 3rd June.
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HMS BlondeNotes: Refitting.
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HMS AchillesCommanding officer: Capt. F.M. LeakeNotes: Refitting.
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HMS DonegalCommanding officer: Capt. W.H. D'OylyNotes: Detached to intercept shipping off the coast of Norway.
C-in-CGF reported 24 dreadnought battleships and 3 battlecruisers ready for sea:
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Vice Admiral Sir Martyn Jerram
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Rear Admiral Arthur Leveson
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Admiral Sir John JellicoePosition: CinCGF
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Vice Admiral Sir Doveton SturdeePosition: VA4BS
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Rear Admiral DuffPosition: RA4BS
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Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Burney
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Rear Admiral E.F.A. Gaunt
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Rear Admiral Hugh Evans-ThomasPosition: RA5BS
No battleships or battlecruisers had been fitted with fitted with secondary armament or searchlight directors in 1916 (source: Marder, v.3, p.260)
- ^1.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.81.91.101.111.121.131.141.151.161.171.181.191.201.211.221.231.241.251.261.271.281.291.301.311.321.331.341.351.361.371.381.391.401.411.421.431.441.451.461.471.481.491.501.511.521.531.541.551.561.571.581.591.601.611.621.63RN battleships and battlecruisers fitted with main armament directors (source: Marder, v.3, p.260.)
Departed Schillig Roads at 0100, 31st May.
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Vice Admiral Franz von Hipper
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Korvettenkapitän Erich RaederPosition: 1. Admiralstabsoffizier
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SMS Lützow (flagship) (sunk)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See HarderCrew: 1. Artillerieoffizier Korvettenkapitän Paschen
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SMS Derflinger (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See HartogCrew: 1. Artillerieoffizier Korvettenkapitän G. von HaseNotes: Repairs completed 15 October; returned to service December 1916.
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SMS Seydlitz (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See von EgidyCrew: 1. Artillerieoffizier Kapitänleutnant ForsterNotes: Returned to service 16th September 1916.
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SMS Moltke (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See HarpfCrew: 1. Artillerieoffizier Kapitänleutnant ScharmacherNotes: Returned to 30th July 1916.
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SMS von der Tann (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See ZenkerCrew: 1. Artillerieoffizier Korvettenkapitän MarholzNotes: Returned to service 2nd August 1916.
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Korvettenkapitän Goehle
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V 28 (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Lenßen
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V27 (sunk)Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Buddecke
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V26Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Hans Köhler
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S36Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Franz Fischer
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S51Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Dette
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S52Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm Ehrentraut
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Korvettenkapitän Werner Tillessen
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V30 (2nd flagship)Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Ernst Wolf
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S34Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Andersen
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S33Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant von Münch
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V29 (sunk)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Erich Steinbrinck
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S35 (sunk)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Fredrich Ihn
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Konteradmiral F. Boedicker
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SMS Frankfurt (flagship) (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See Thilo von Trotha
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SMS PillauCommanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Konrad Mommsen
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SMS Elbing (sunk)Commanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Madlung
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SMS Wiesbaden (sunk)Commanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Reiß †(killed)
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Fregattenkapitän Schuur
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B98 (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Theodor Hengstenberg
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Korvettenkapitän BoestNotes: Aboard B98.
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G101Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Rudolf Schulte
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G102Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant von Barendorff
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B112Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant August Claussen
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B97Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Leo Riedel
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Korvettenkapitän Dithmar
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B109 (2nd flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Victor Hahndorff
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B110Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Bollheim
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B111Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Schickhardt
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G103Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Fritz Spiess
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G104Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant von Bartenwerffer
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Korvettenkapitän Max Schultz
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G41 (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Hermann Boehm
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Kapitänleutnant Wilhelm RümannNotes: Aboard G41.
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V44Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Holleuffer
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G87Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Karstens
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G86Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Grimm
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Kapitänleutnant Lahs
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V69 (2nd flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Stecher
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V45Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Lassmann
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V46Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Krumhaar
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S50Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Recke
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G37Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Wolf von Trotha
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Vizeadmiral Reinhard ScheerPosition: Chef der HochseestreitkräfteNotes: Aboard SMS Friedrich der Große
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Kapitän zur See Adolf von TrothaPosition: Chef des StabesNotes: Aboard SMS Friedrich der Große
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Kapitän zur See von LevezowPosition: Chef der OperationsabteilungNotes: Aboard SMS Friedrich der Große
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SMS Friedrich der Große (force flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See Theodor Fuchs
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Konteradmiral Paul Behncke
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Konteradmiral H. NordmannPosition: 2nd Admiral of IIIrd Squadron
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Korvettenkapitän Freiherr von SagernPosition: 1. Admiralstabsoffizier
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SMS König (flagship) (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See BrüninghausNotes: Repairs completed 21st July.
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SMS Grosser Kurfürst (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See GoetteNotes: Repairs completed 16th July.
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SMS Markgraf (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See SeiferlingNotes: Repairs completed 20th July.
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SMS KronprinzCommanding officer: Kapitän zur See Konstanz Feldts
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Vizeadmiral E. Schmidt
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Konteradmiral W. EngelhartPosition: 2nd Admiral of Ist Squadron
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Korvettenkapitän Wolfgang WegenerPosition: 1. Admiralstabsoffizier
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SMS Ostfriesland (flagship) (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See von NatzmerNotes: Repairs completed 26th July.
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SMS ThüringenCommanding officer: Kapitän zur See Hans Küsel
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SMS Helgoland (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See von KameckeNotes: Repairs completed 16th July.
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SMS OldenburgCommanding officer: Kapitän zur See Höpfner
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SMS Posen (2nd flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See Richard Lange
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SMS Rheinland (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See RohardtNotes: Repairs completed 10th June.
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SMS Nassau (seriously damaged)Notes: Repairs completed 10th July.
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SMS Westfalen (seriously damaged)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See RedlichNotes: Repairs completed 17th June.
Added to Scheer's plan "at the last moment"; left the Elbe at 0145, 31st May, joined astern of the German dreadnoughts at 0445 31st May.
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Konteradmiral F. Mauve
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Konteradmiral Freiherr F. von Dalwigk zu LichtenfelsPosition: 2nd Admiral of IInd Squadron
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Korvettenkapitän KahlertPosition: 1. Admiralstabsoffizier
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SMS Deutschland (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See Meurer
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SMS Pommern (sunk)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See Bölken †(killed)
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SMS SchlesienCommanding officer: Kapitän zur See Fr. Behncke
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Kommodore L. von Reuter
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Korvettenkapitän Heinrich WeberPosition: Admiralstabsoffizier
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SMS StettinCommanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Friedrich Rebensburg
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SMS MünchenCommanding officer: Korvettenkapitän Oscar Böcker
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SMS Frauenlob (sunk)Commanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Georg Hoffman
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SMS StuttgartCommanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Hagedorn
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Kommodore A. Michelsen
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Korvettenkapitän JunkermannPosition: Admiralstabsoffizier
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SMS Rostock (sunk)Commanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Otto Feldmann
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Kommodore P. Heinrich
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Kapitänleutnant MeierPosition: Admiralstabsoffizier
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SMS RegensburgCommanding officer: Fregattenkapitän Heuberer
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Korvettenkapitän Hollman
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S53 (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Götting
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Kapitänleutnant GautierNotes: Aboard V71
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V71Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Friedrich Ulrich
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V73Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Delbrück
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G88Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Scabell
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Korvettenkapitän Heinecke
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G11 (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Adolf Müller
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Kapitänleutnant Hoefer
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V2Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Hoefer
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V4 (sunk)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Barop
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V6Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Hans Behrendt
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V1Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Nöthig
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V3Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Manfred von Killinger
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Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Klein
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G8Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Rodenberg
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G7Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Meinecke
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V5Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Tils
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G9Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Anschütz
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G10Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Haumann
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Korvettenkapitän von Koch
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S24 (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Fink
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Kapitänleutnant G. von ZitzewitzNotes: Aboard S15
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S15Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Christian Schmidt
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S17Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant von Puttkammer
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S20Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Benecke
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S16Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Walter Loeffler
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S18Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Haushalter
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Korvettenkapitän Hermann CordesNotes: Aboard S19
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S19Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Reimer
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S23Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant Arthur von Killinger
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V189Commanding officer: Oberleutnant zur See Keil
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V186Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant W. von KeyserlingkNotes: Sent back to Helgoland with a leaky condenser, at 0715, 31st May.
"31 Gg.2490" indicated that the High Seas Fleet would be at sea at 1004, 31st May.
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U43Notes: East of the Pentland Firth.
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U44Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant WagenfuhrNotes: East of the Pentland Firth.
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U63Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant O. SchultzNotes: Off the Forth.
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U46Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant L. HillebrandNotes: Returning to base, periscope u/s.
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UB27Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant DicksonNotes: Returning to port, port propeller u/s after clearing nets in the Firth of Forth, 25th May.
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U72Notes: To lay 22 mines in the Moray Firth, but returned 25th May with leaky oil tank.
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U74Notes: To lay 22 mines in the Firth of Forth, but sunk with all hands by gunfire from 4 armed trawlers on 27th May.
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U75Notes: To lay 22 mines to the west of the Orkneys. On 29th May U75 laid mines in a channel normally used by fleet auxiliaries 2 miles to the west of the Orkneys. These mines were in fact laid in the wrong position: U75 laid the mines off Marwick Head, on the NW coast of the main Orkney Island, mistaking it for Hoy Island. HMS Hampshire, with Lord Kitchener on board, was sunk in this minefield on 5th June.
These boats, with 12 mines each, were to lay mines off Harwich and the Thames estuary on the night of 31st May – 1st June.
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UC10
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UC6
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UC1
These boats were to patrol off the Suffolk coast from 0300 1st June to 1600 2nd June.
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UB17
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UB29
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UB19
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UB12
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UB10
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UB6
These boats were to patrol the Dutch coast as far as Terschelling, then to join the patrol ilnes off the Suffolk coast.
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UB18
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UB23
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KorvetteKapitän Peter StrasserPosition: Leader of Airships
Weather was very hazy, with cloud base at 1000 feet, which inhibited reconnaissance.
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L9Notes: 100 miles E of Sunderland, but forced back with engine trouble.
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L14Notes: Skagerrak, but did not reach its assigned area, being late to take off (?).
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L16Notes: 80 miles E of Flamborough Head (off the Humber.)
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L21Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant DietrichtNotes: 120 miles E of Peterhead. L21 was ordered to reconnoiter the Dogger Bank on the afternoon of 31st May, but held his course for Peterhead.
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L23Commanding officer: Kapitänleutnant von SchubertNotes: 240 miles E of Noss Head (Pentland Firth), but changed his plans on his own initiative to scout to the north of the advancing Ist Scouting Group, in place of L14.
L23 sighted L14 on her starboard quarter at 1750, 15 miles NW of the Horn’s Reef lightship, steering NNW for the Skagerrak. However at 1830 on the 31st May, L23 was still 50 miles SW of the position at which the 1st SG first sighted the BCF, i.e. both airships were well astern of the HSF.
Reconnaissance requested over the Horn’s Reef at dawn 1st June
The weather was again hazy, with low cloud base at 3200 feet to 1000 feet.
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L11Commanding officer: KorvetteKapitän SchützeNotes:
Scouted the area NW of Helgioland.
- 0400
- 90 miles NW of Heligoland, L11 sighted "12 British battleships and numerous smaller vessels steering NNE at high speed". These were 1BCS and 2 BCS, accompanied by 2CS and LCS. This was reported to Vizeadmiral Scheer.
- 0440
- L11 then sighted "a second squadron of 6 dreadnoughts, accompanied by light forces, approximately 18 miles NNW of the vessels first sighted". These were the rear ships of the Grand Fleet.
- 0450
- L11 then sighted "3 battle-cruisers and 4 smaller vessels, about 20 miles N of the vessels first sighted". These were 1BS, 6th Division, HMS Revenge, Hercules and Agincourt, screened by HMS Faulknor, Obedient, and Marvel. L11 was then taken under fire from up to 21 ships, in the light of the rising sun.
- 0520
- L11 was forced to break contact and run before the wind to the NE.
- 0535
- L11 descended again and took up position between the GF and the HSF, and remained off the Horn’s Reef until recalled at 0700.
Viceadmiral Scheer interpreted the formations sighted by L11 to be the Harwich force.
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L13Notes: Searched the area N and W of Terschelling.
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L17Notes: Cruised the area 50 miles SSW to WNW of Horn’s Reef.
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L22Notes: Sighted gunfire, searchlights and explosions between 0100 and 0200, 20-35 miles NW of Horn’s Reef; broke off reconnaissance at 0300 owing to a strong SW wind driving her off course.
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L24Notes:
Sighted gunfire, searchlights and explosions between 0100 and 0200, 20-35 miles NW of Horn’s Reef; fired at by light forces at 023 50 miles W of Bovbjerg, and again at 0305.
L24 dropped several running salvoes of 3 to 5 * 110 lb / 50 kg bombs on unidentified vessels.
L24 then sighted a force of “twelve large units and many cruisers, formed in line abreat with the cruisers out ahead”. This was a British convoy plus escorts in Jammer Bay on the N coast of Jutland; L24 was driven off by gunfire.
This was reported to Vizeadmiral Scheer, who interpreted the formation to be the Grand Fleet.
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SMS GraudenzNotes: Dockyard, repairing mine damage.
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SMS StraslundNotes: Dockyard, refitting with 5.9” guns.
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SMS StrasburgNotes: Baltic.
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SMS KolbergNotes: Baltic.
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SMS AugsburgNotes: Baltic.
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SMS BrummerNotes: Ready for service, but not included in battle orders.
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SMS BerlinNotes: Dockyard.
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SMS BadenNotes: Completed October 1916.
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SMS HindenburgNotes: Completed October 1917.
The High Seas Fleet can muster 10 dreadnoughts ready for sea.
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Konteradmiral H. Nordmann
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SMS Kaiser (flagship)Commanding officer: Kapitän zur See Baron von Keyserlingk
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SMS Prinzregent Luitpold
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SMS Kaiserin
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SMS Koenig Albert
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Vizeadmiral E. Schmidt
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SMS Thuringen
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SMS OldenburgCommanding officer: Kapitän zur See Hopfner
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