She joined Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas's 5th Battle Squadron (consisting of "Queen Elizabeth"-class battleships) of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow, but she missed the Battle of Jutland as she was in dock for maintenance. HMS "Queen Elizabeth" became the Grand Fleet Flagship on Admiral Sir David Beatty's appointment as Admiral of the Fleet 1917 and saw the German High Seas Fleet internment at Scapa Flow at the end of the First World War.