James Gordon Foggo III (born September 2, 1959) is a United States Navy vice admiral who currently serves as the director of Navy Staff.
 He previously served as the commander of U.S. Sixth Fleet.
 He assumed his current assignment in November 2016.
 On June 12, 2017, Foggo has been nominated as next commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe, U.S. Naval Forces Africa and Allied Joint Force Command Naples.
 Ten days later, he was confirmed for the above commands and promotion to Admiral by the Senate's Armed Services Committee.
 He will assume command of Naval Forces Europe on October 20, 2017.
The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11–12 November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and Italian naval forces, under Admiral Inigo Campioni.
 The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history, employing a small number of obsolescent Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier  in the Mediterranean Sea.
 The attack struck the battle fleet of the "Regia Marina" at anchor in the harbour of Taranto using aerial torpedoes despite the shallowness of the water.
 The devastation wrought by the British carrier-launched aircraft on the large Italian warships was the beginning of the ascendancy of naval aviation over the big guns of battleships.
 According to Admiral Cunningham, "Taranto, and the night of November 11–12, 1940, should be remembered for ever as having shown once and for all that in the Fleet Air Arm the Navy has its most devastating weapon."
David H. Buss (b. 18 Feb 1956) is a native of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy.
 His last assignment was as Commander, Naval Air Forces and Commander, Naval Air Force, Pacific in San Diego, California, a position also known as the Navy's "Air Boss."
 Prior to taking command as the "Air Boss," Buss served as the Deputy Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia .
 He also commanded Task Force 20 (formerly U.S. Second Fleet) where he was responsible for training and certifying all Atlantic Fleet naval forces for overseas deployment.
 A career Naval Flight Officer, Buss served in multiple jet squadrons and staff assignments, and has commanded at every level of the Navy from Commander to Vice Admiral.
Vice Admiral Albert Thomas Church III (born 1947) is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy.
 Church served as on active duty for 36 years, retiring as a Vice Admiral in 2005.
 During his service he commanded two warships, the Navy’s largest shore installation at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia and was the longest serving Budget Director of the Navy (1998-2002).
 Vice Admiral Church also served as the Naval Inspector General, during which time he completed a comprehensive review of interrogation techniques used by the Department of Defense in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
 He is currently President of Prescient Edge Corporation, a US-based National Security Services and Technology Firm.
Mark P. Fitzgerald (born 1951) is a retired United States Navy admiral.
 He is the former Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe – Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa and Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples.
 He previously served as Director, Navy Staff from December 2006 to November 2007 and Commander, U.S. 2nd Fleet from 2004 until December 2006.
 He assumed his the duties of Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples on November 30, 2007 and assumed the additional duties as Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Africa on March 26, 2009.
The German destroyer Z1 "Leberecht Maass" was a Type 1934 destroyer built for the "Kriegsmarine" during the 1930s.
 She was the first destroyer constructed for the German navy after World War I.
 The ship was named after Rear Admiral Leberecht Maass, who commanded German forces in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914.
Leberecht Maass (or Maaß) (24 November 1863 – 28 August 1914) was the "Konteradmiral" who commanded the German naval forces at the first Battle of Heligoland Bight.
 He lost his life when his flagship, the light cruiser SMS "Cöln" , was sunk by British battlecruisers commanded by Vice Admiral David Beatty.
The Fifth Fleet is a numbered fleet of the United States Navy.
 It has been responsible for naval forces in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, and parts of the Indian Ocean since 1995 after a 48-year hiatus.
 It shares a commander and headquarters with U.S. Naval Forces Central Command ("NAVCENT") in Bahrain.
 s of 2017 , the commander of the 5th Fleet is Vice Admiral John C. Aquilino.
 Fifth Fleet/NAVCENT is a component command of, and reports to, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM).
Jerzy Włodzimierz Świrski (5 April 1882, Kalisz – 12 June 1959, London) was a Polish vice admiral and officer in the Russian Imperial Navy and later the Polish Navy.
 As Chief of the Polish Naval Command (1925-1947), he was a member of an elite group of high ranking Polish naval officers from foreign navies who became founder members of the re-established naval forces of the newly independent Poland after World War I.
 During World War II, Polish naval forces under his command, were embedded with the Royal Navy and contributed significantly to the success of Britain's maritime war effort.
 He notably fell out with Poland's war time Prime Minister-in-exile, General Sikorski, but was backed by the British and survived in post.
 He was awarded the Order of the Bath.
Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (17 January 1871 – 11 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer.
 After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the 1st Battlecruiser Squadron at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.
 He is remembered for his comment at Jutland that "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today", after two of his ships exploded.
 Later in the war he succeeded Jellicoe as Commander in Chief of the Grand Fleet, in which capacity he received the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the war.
 He then followed Jellicoe's path a second time, serving as First Sea Lord—a position that Beatty held longer (7 years 9 months) than any other First Sea Lord in history.
 While First Sea Lord, he was involved in negotiating the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 in which it was agreed that the United States, Britain and Japan should set their navies in a ratio of 5:5:3, with France and Italy maintaining smaller ratio fleets of 1.75 each.

Question: What was the name of the squadron commanded by the Vice Admiral who also had command of British naval forces responsible for the death of Leberecht Maass?
Answer: 1st Battlecruiser Squadron