German Forces

Raiding Force

  • Rear Admiral Hipper

1st SG

  • Seydlitz (flagship)(flagship)
  • Moltke
  • Derfflinger
  • Von der Tann
  • Blucher

2nd SG

  • Stralsund
  • Graudenz
  • Kolberg
  • Strassburg
  • 1st TBF
    Notes: V186/G192 classes
  • 9th TBF
    Notes: V25/S30 classes

1st and 9th TBF contained a total of 18 torpedo boats.

Battle Fleet

  • Admiral von Ingenhohl
  • Friedrich der Grosse (force flagship)(force flagship)

1st BS

  • Ostfriesland (flagship)(flagship)
  • Helgoland
  • Thuringen
  • Oldenburg
  • Posen (2nd flagship)(2nd flagship)
  • Westfalen
  • Rheinland
  • Nassau

2nd BS

  • Preussen (flagship)(flagship)
  • Hessen
  • Lothringen
  • Deutschland
  • Hannover (2nd flagship)(2nd flagship)
  • Pommern
  • Schleswig-Holstein
  • Schlesien

3rd BS

  • Prinzregent Luitpold (flagship)(flagship)
  • Kaiser
  • Kaiserin
  • Konig Albert
  • Grosser Kurf

3rd SG

  • Roon (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: KA von Reubeur-Paschwitz
  • Prinz Heinrich

4th SG

  • Munchen (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Komm. von Restorff
  • Stuttgart
  • Danzig
  • Stettin
  • Frauenlob
  • Hamburg
    Notes: Leader of U-Boats Kvk Bauer. Attached to 4th SG.

Torpedo boats

  • Rostock (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Leader of Torpedo Boats, Komm. Hartog
  • 2nd TBF
    Notes: S138 class
  • 5th TBF
    Notes: V1/G7 classes
  • 6th TBF
    Notes: V150 class
  • 7th TBF
    Notes: S13 class
  • 8th TBF
    Notes: G174/S176/V180 classes

54 total Torpedo Boats.

British Forces

  • Vice Admiral Warrender

2nd BS

  • King George V (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: VA Warrender
  • Ajax
  • Centurion
  • Orion (2nd flagship)(2nd flagship)
    Commanding officer: RA Arbuthnot
  • Monarch
  • Conqueror

BCF

  • Lion (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: VA Beatty
  • Queen Mary
  • Tiger
  • New Zealand

1st LCS

  • Southampton (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: Comm Goodenough
  • Birmingham
  • Falmouth
  • Nottingham

3rd CS

  • Antrim (flagship)(flagship)
    Commanding officer: RA Pakenham
  • Argyll
  • Devonshire
  • Roxburgh

4th DF

Partial
  • Lynx
  • Ambuscade
  • Unity
  • Hardy
  • Shark
  • Acasta
  • Spitfire

CL Blanche and Boadicea had returned to Scapa due to bad weather in the Pentlands.

Hartlepool Local Defence Forces

  • CL Forward
  • CL Patrol

9th DF

Partial
  • Doon
  • Waverney
  • Test
  • Moy

The Harwich Force of 4 CL and 25+DE was to be off Great Yarmouth at 0630 (approx 140m S of the above forces).

Sources

  • Goldrick, "The Kings Ships Were At Sea"
  • Corbett, "Naval Operations Volume 2"
  • Scheer, "The High Seas Fleet in the World War"
  • Marder, "Dreadnought to Scapa Flow Volume 2"

German details confirmed by Thomas Pflueger.

The other points are about the Operation Albion OOB, in the 3rd BS Vizeadmiral Behncke's flagship was Konig, Kommodore Seiferling was on Markgraf and in the 4th BS Vizeadmiral Souchon was on Friedrich der Grosse and Kommodore Meurer on Kaiser.