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VAdm Sir David R. Beatty Battlecruiser Lion, VAdm Beatty's flagship, heavily damaged at the Battle of Jutland Battlecruiser Queen Mary exploding, 31 May 1916 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 ...
The List of ships sunk at the Battle of Jutland is a list of ships which were lost during the Battle of Jutland. This battle was fought between the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet on 31 May and 1 June 1916, during the First World War. The list is in chronological order of the time of sinking.
Jutland was the third fleet action between steel battleships, following the Battle of the Yellow Sea in 1904 [123] [124] and the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, [125] during the Russo-Japanese War. At Jutland, the Germans, with a 99-strong fleet, sank 115,000 long tons (117,000 t) of British ships, while a 151-strong British fleet sank 62,000 long ...
Battle of Jutland order of battle; George Borrett; J. Night action at the Battle of Jutland; Damage to major ships at the Battle of Jutland; S. Sea War Museum Jutland
Not all the Grand Fleet was available for use at any one time, because ships required maintenance and repairs. At the time of the Battle of Jutland in May 1916, it had 32 dreadnought and super-dreadnought battleships. Of these, 28 were in the order of battle at Jutland. [10]
This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are listed in chronological order by starting date (or planned start date).
As First Sea Lord Jellicoe was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Belgian Order of Leopold on 21 April 1917, [35] the Russian Order of St. George, 3rd Class on 5 June 1917, [36] the Grand Cross of the Italian Military Order of Savoy on 11 August 1917 [37] and the Grand Cordon of the Japanese Order of the Rising Sun on 29 August 1917.
Hood was a youthful, vigorous and active officer whose service in Africa won him the Distinguished Service Order and who was posthumously appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in recognition of his courageous and ultimately fatal service in the Battle of Jutland, [1] during which his ship was constantly engaged from its arrival ...