# Battle of Jutland order of battle

The Battle of Jutland was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916, in the waters of the North Sea, between forces of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet and Imperial German Navy High Seas Fleet. The battle involved 250 warships, and, in terms of combined tonnage of vessels engaged, was the largest naval battle in history.
The Royal Navy had established a blockade of the North Sea at the start of the war and the German Hochseeflotte could not match the larger Grand Fleet. The German plan was to use the threat of an attack by their battlecruisers on British ports to lure the British battlecruisers into a trap where they could be defeated by a superior force of battleships without encountering the rest of the Grand Fleet. Aware of all German naval movements, the British fleet sortied to support their battlecruisers and bring the German fleet to battle.
In the event, although more British ships were sunk or damaged, the overall strategic situation was unchanged.

## Summary
### Ships present

Warships by number and size of main armament :
| | Royal Navy | Imperial German Navy |
| Dreadnoughts | 28 in total 8 × 15-inch 2 × Revenge class (28,000 tons displacement, 21 knots top speed) 4 × Queen Elizabeth class (27,500 tons, 24 kn.) 10 × 14-inch HMS Canada (28,622 tons, 23 kn.) 10 × 13.5-inch 3 × King George V class (25,420 tons, 21 kn.) 3 × Iron Duke class (25,000 tons, 21.5 kn.) HMS Erin (22,780 tons, 21 kn.) 4 × Orion class (21,922 tons, 21 kn.) 14 × 12-inch HMS Agincourt (28,750 tons, 22 kn.) 10 × 12-inch 2 × Colossus class (20,030 tons, 21 kn.) HMS Neptune (19,680 tons, 21 kn.) 8 × 12-inch 3 × St Vincent class (19,700 tons, 21 kn.) 3 × Bellerophon class (18,596 tons, 21 kn.) | 16 in total 10 × 12-in. 4 × Kaiser class (25,420 tons, 21 kn.) 4 × König class (25,389 tons, 21 kn.) 8 × 12-in. 4 × Helgoland class (22,448 tons, 20.5 kn.) 8 × 11-in. 4 × Nassau class (18,575 tons, 19 kn.) |
| Pre-dreadnought battleships | | 6 total' 4 × 11-in. SMS Hessen (12,999 tons, 18 kn.) 5 × Deutschland class (12,983 tons, 19 kn.) |
| Battlecruisers | 9 total 8 × 13.5-in. HMS Tiger (28,500 tons, 28 kn.) HMS Queen Mary (26,770 tons, 28 kn.) 2 × Lion class (26,270 tons, 27.5 kn.) 8 × 12-in. 2 × Indefatigable class (18,500 tons, 25.8 kn.) 3 × Invincible class (17,250 tons, 25 kn.) | 5 total 8 × 12-in (30.5 cm) 2 × Derfflinger class (26,200 tons, 26.5 kn.) 10 × 11-in. SMS Seydlitz (24,593 tons, 26.5 kn.) SMS Moltke (22,216 tons, 25.5 kn.) 8 × 11-in. SMS Von der Tann (19,060 tons, 24.8 kn.) |
| Armoured cruisers | 8 total 4 × 9.2-in., 5 × 7.5-in. 3 × Minotaur class (14,600 tons, 23 kn.) 4 × 9.2-in., 2 × 7.5-in. 2 × Warrior class (12,590 tons, 23 kn.) 4 × 9.2-in., 5 × 6-in. 2 × Duke of Edinburgh class (12,590 tons, 23 kn.) 3 × 7.5-in., 3 × 6-in. HMS Hampshire (10,850 tons, 22 kn.) |
| 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—332,360 lb (150.76 t) compared to 134,216 lb (60.879 t)—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

Losses of the fleets with date of loss :
| | Pre-dreadnought battleships | Battlecruisers | Armoured cruisers | Light cruisers | Destroyers / Torpedo boats |
| Royal Navy | | HMS Invincible (31 May) HMS Queen Mary (31st) HMS Indefatigable (31 May) | HMS Defence (31 May) HMS Warrior (1 June) HMS Black Prince (1 June) | | 3 (31 May) 5 (1 June) |
| Imperial German Navy | SMS Pommern (1 June) | SMS Lützow (1 June) | | SMS Frauenlob (31 May) SMS Rostock (1 June) SMS Elbing (1 June) SMS Wiesbaden (1 June) | 3 (31 May) 2 (1 June) |

## Abbreviations

Officers killed in action are indicated thus: †
Abbreviations for officers’ ranks (German ranks translated according to current NATO practice):
    Adm / Admiral
    VAdm / Vice-admiral : Vizeadmiral / VAdm
    RAdm / Rear-admiral : Konteradmiral / KAdm
    Cdre / Commodore : Kommodore / Kom
    Capt / Captain : Kapitän zur See / KptzS
    Cdr / Commander : Fregattenkapitän / FKpt
    Lt Cdr / Lieutenant-commander : Korvettenkapitän / KKpt
    Lt / Lieutenant : Kapitänleutnant / KptLt
    SLt / Sub-lieutenant : Oberleutnant zur See / OLtzS
Other abbreviations
    Frhr:Freiherr / title in the Prussian nobility equivalent to Baron)
    SMS: Seiner Majestät Schiff / German; translation: His Majesty's Ship)
    the Hon.: The Honourable

## Royal Navy
### 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 Jellicoe, KCB KCVO in HMS Iron Duke
    Second in Command, Grand Fleet: Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, KCB KCMG in HMS Marlborough
       Chief of Staff: Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Madden, KCB CVO
       Captain of the Fleet: Commodore Lionel Halsey, C.B., C.M.G., AdC.
       Master of the Fleet: Captain Oliver Elles Leggett

#### Battleships

2nd Battle Squadron (battleships)
    Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Martyn Jerram
    Sortied from Cromarty Firth; rendezvoused with Jellicoe's force around noon 31 May
    1st Division: Vice-Admiral 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: Rear Admiral 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: Commodore Percy Grant
    5th Division: Rear Admiral Ernest 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 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 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: Commodore Le Mesurier
* HMS Constance: Capt Cyril Samuel Townsend
* HMS Comus: Capt Alan Hotham
* HMS Caroline: Capt Henry 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 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 (fast minelayer)
* HMS Oak: Lt Cdr Douglas Faviell (tender to the flagship of the Grand Fleet)

#### Destroyers

4th Destroyer Flotilla
    Captain Charles John Wintour †
    HMS Tipperary (Faulknor-class flotilla leader, sunk 1 June) : 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 (Faulknor-class 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
    Commanded by Commodore Hawksley in HMS Castor, a 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 (Marksman-class 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 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 (Faulknor-class 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 (Marksman-class 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 Hood, (KIA)
* Battlecruisers
** HMS Invincible (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Arthur Lindesay Cay (KIA)
** HMS Inflexible: Capt Edward Heaton-Ellis
** HMS Indomitable: Capt Francis William Kennedy
* Accompanying cruisers
** HMS Canterbury : Capt Percy Royds
** HMS Chester : Capt Robert Neale Lawson
* Attached destroyers
** HMS Shark (sunk 31 May): Cdr Loftus William Jones (KIA)
** HMS Ophelia: Cdr Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe (Admiralty M-class destroyer)
** 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 Rudolph Bentinck

#### Battlecruisers

HMS Lion: (flagship) Captain Ernle Chatfield
* 1st Battlecruiser Squadron: Rear Admiral Osmond Brock on Princess Royal
** HMS Princess Royal (flagship): Capt Walter Cowan,
** HMS Queen Mary (sunk 31 May): Capt Cecil Prowse (KIA)
** HMS Tiger: Capt Henry Bertram Pelly.
* 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron: Rear Admiral William Pakenham,
** HMS New Zealand (flagship): Capt John Green
** HMS Indefatigable (sunk 31 May): Capt Charles Fitzgerald Sowerby (KIA)

#### 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: Rear Admiral 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 to the light cruisers was the seaplane tender HMS Engadine (Lt Cdr Charles Gwillim Robinson) carrying two Short Type 184 reconnaissance seaplanes and two 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 the 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 [de]
          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 [de]
    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

    IV. Aufklärungsgruppe ("4th Scouting Group", 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

   It is perhaps significant that all [British World War I] losses in big ships (Audacious, Indefatigable, Invincible, Queen Mary and Vanguard) were finally due to internal explosions, whereas no large German ships were lost from this cause.
    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 [de]
       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
    II. Torpedoboots-Flottille (2nd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla )
    Commander Heinrich Schuur
    SMS B98 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Theodor Hengstenberg
* 3. Halbflottille (3rd Half-Flotilla) KKpt Heinrich Boest
** SMS G101 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Rudolf Schulte
** SMS G102: KptLt von Barendorff
** SMS B112: KptLt Carl August Claussen [de]
** SMS B97: KptLt Leo Riedel
* 4. Halbflottille (4th Half-Flotilla): 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
VI. Torpedoboots-Flottille (6th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla)
    Lieut. Commander Max Schultz
    SMS G41 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Hermann Boehm
* 11. Halbflottille (11th Half-Flotilla) : KptLt Wilhelm Rüman
** SMS V44 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Karl von Holleuffer
** SMS G87: KptLt Siegfried Karstens
** SMS G86: KptLt Kurt Grimm
* 12. Halbflottille (12th Half-Flotilla) 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
IX. Torpedoboots-Flottille (9th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla)
    Lieut. Commander Herbert Goehle
    SMS V28 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Otto Lenssen
* 17. Halbflottille (17th Half-Flotilla ): 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
* 18. Halbflottille (18th Half-Flotilla): Korvettenkapitän Werner Tillessen [de]
** 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

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:
** 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