Order of battle at Jutland



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 and Imperial German Navy. The battle involved 250 warships, and, in terms of combined tonnage of vessels engaged, was the largest naval battle in history.

The engagement was the result of the high commands of the two nations' eagerness to give their publics a victory in contrast to the stalemate on the ground in Western Europe (the Battle of Verdun had been underway for three months at the time the opposing fleets sortied). Both navies had plans to lure the other's battlecruisers into a trap where they could be defeated by a superior force of battleships.

In the event, the battle had no impact on the course of the war and victory was claimed by both sides.

Ships present

 * The British capital ships carried a larger weight of broadside—332360 lb compared to 134216 lb—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

 * Number in parentheses indicates date of loss (31st May or 1st 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

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 Rushworth Jellicoe, in HMS Iron Duke
 * Second in Command, Grand Fleet: Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, in HMS Marlborough
 * Chief of Staff: VAdm Sir Charles Edward Madden,
 * Captain of the Fleet: Cdre Lionel Halsey, C.B., C.M.G., AdC.
 * Master of the Fleet: Capt Oliver Elles Leggett

Battleships

 * 2nd Battle Squadron (battleships)
 * Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram


 * Sortied from Cromarty Firth; rendezvoused with Jellicoe's force around noon 31 May
 * 1st Division: VAdm Jerram
 * HMS King George V (1911) (flagship): Capt Frederick Field
 * HMS Ajax (1912): Capt George Henry Baird
 * HMS Centurion (1911): Capt Michael Culme-Seymour
 * HMS Erin: Capt the Hon. Victor Stanley
 * 2nd Division: RAdm Arthur Leveson
 * HMS Orion (1910) (flagship): Capt Oliver Backhouse
 * HMS Monarch (1911): Capt George Borrett
 * HMS Conqueror (1911): Capt Hugh Tothill
 * HMS Thunderer (1911): Capt James Fergusson


 * Fleet Flagship (at head of 3rd Division but not part of 4th Battle Squadron)
 * HMS Iron Duke (1912): 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 (08): Capt Crawford Maclachlan
 * HMS Superb (1907) (flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker
 * HMS Canada (1913): Capt William Nicholson
 * 4th Division: VAdm Sturdee
 * HMS Benbow (1913) (flagship): Capt Henry Wise Parker
 * HMS Bellerophon (1907): Capt Edward Francis Bruen
 * HMS Temeraire (1907): Capt Edwin Veale Underhill
 * HMS Vanguard (1909): Capt James Douglas Dick


 * 1st Battle Squadron (battleships)
 * Admiral Sir Cecil Burney
 * Chief of Staff: Cdre Percy Grant
 * 5th Division: RAdm Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt
 * HMS Colossus (1910) (flagship): Capt Dudley Pound
 * HMS Collingwood (1908): Capt James Clement Ley
 * HMS St. Vincent (1908): Capt William Wordsworth Fisher
 * HMS Neptune (1909) Capt Vivian Bernard
 * 6th Division: VAdm Burney
 * HMS Marlborough (1912) (flagship): Capt George Parish Ross
 * HMS Revenge (06): Capt Edward Buxton Kiddle
 * HMS Hercules (1910): Capt Lewis Clinton-Baker
 * HMS Agincourt (1913): Capt Henry Montagu Doughty

Cruisers



 * 1st Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)
 * Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet
 * HMS Defence (1907) (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Stanley Venn Ellis
 * HMS Warrior (1907) (sunk 1 June): Capt Vincent Barkly Molteno
 * HMS Duke of Edinburgh (1904): Capt Henry Blackett
 * HMS Black Prince (1904) (sunk 1 June): Capt Thomas Parry Bonham


 * 2nd Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers)
 * Rear-Admiral Herbert Leopold Heath
 * HMS Minotaur (1906) (flagship): Capt Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughes D'Aeth
 * HMS Hampshire (1903): Capt Herbert John Savill
 * HMS Shannon (1906): Capt John Saumarez Dumaresq
 * HMS Cochrane (1905): Capt Eustace La Trobe Leatham


 * 4th Light Cruiser Squadron
 * Commodore Charles Edward Le Mesurier
 * HMS Calliope (1914): Cdre Le Mesurier
 * HMS Constance (1915): Capt Cyril Samuel Townsend
 * HMS Comus (1914): Capt Alan Geoffrey Hotham
 * HMS Caroline (1914): Capt Henry Ralph Crooke
 * HMS Royalist (1915): Capt the Hon. Herbert Meade


 * Light cruisers attached for repeating visual signals
 * HMS Boadicea (1908): Capt Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe (attached to 2nd B.S.)
 * HMS Active (1911): Capt Percy Withers (attached to Fleet Flagship)
 * HMS Blanche (1909): Capt John Moore Casement (attached to 4th B.S.)
 * HMS Bellona (1909): Capt Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton (attached to 1st B.S.)


 * Other ships under direct command of the Commander-in-Chief
 * HMS Abdiel (1915): Cdr Berwick Curtis (destroyer-minelayer)
 * HMS Oak (1912): Lt Cdr Douglas Faviell (destroyer)

Destroyers



 * 4th Destroyer Flotilla
 * Captain Charles John Wintour
 * HMS Tipperary (1914) (sunk 1 June) (flotilla leader): Capt Wintour
 * First half-flotilla / 4th D.F. 
 * HMS Spitfire (1912): Lt Cdr Clarence Walter Eyre Trelawney
 * HMS Sparrowhawk (1912) (scuttled 1 June following collision): Lt Cdr Sydney Hopkins
 * HMS Garland (1913): Lt Cdr Reginald Stannus Goff
 * HMS Contest (1913): Lt Cdr Ernald Gilbert Hoskins Master
 * Group 8 / 4th D.F.
 * HMS Owl (1913): Cdr Robert Gerald Hamond
 * HMS Hardy (1912): Cdr Richard Anthony Aston Plowden
 * HMS Mischief (1915): Lt Cdr the Hon. Cyril Augustus Ward (from 12th D.F.)
 * HMS Midge (1913): Lt Cdr James Robert Carnegie Cavendish
 * Second half-flotilla / 4th D.F.
 * HMS Broke (1914) (flotilla leader): Cdr Walter Lingen Allen
 * 3rd Division / 4th D.F.
 * HMS Porpoise (1913): Cdr Hugh Davenport Colville
 * HMS Unity (1913): Lt Cdr Arthur Macaulay Lecky
 * 4th Division / 4th D.F.
 * HMS Achates (1912): Cdr Reginald Becher Caldwell Hutchinson, D.S.C.
 * HMS Ambuscade (1913): Lt Cdr Gordon Alston Coles
 * HMS Ardent (1913) (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Arthur Marsden
 * HMS Fortune (1913) (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Frank Goodrich Terry


 * 11th Destroyer Flotilla
 * Commodore Hawksley 
 * HMS Castor (1915) (light cruiser)
 * First half-flotilla / 11th D.F.
 * 1st Division / 11th D.F.
 * HMS Ossory (1915): Cdr Harold Victor Dundas
 * HMS Martial (1915): Lt Cdr Julian Harrison
 * HMS Magic (1915): Lt Cdr Gerald Charles Wynter
 * HMS Minion (1915): Lt Cdr Henry Clive Rawlings
 * 2nd Division / 11th D.F.
 * HMS Mystic (1915): Cdr Claud Finlinson Allsup
 * HMS Mons (1915): Lt Cdr Robert Makin
 * HMS Mandate (1915): Lt Cdr Edward McConnell Wyndham Lawrie
 * HMS Michael (1915): Lt Cdr Claude Lindsay Bate
 * Second half-flotilla/11th D.F.
 * HMS Kempenfelt (1915) (flotilla leader): Cdr Harold Ernest Sulivan
 * 3rd Division / 11th D.F.
 * HMS Marne (1915): Lt Cdr George Bibby Hartford
 * HMS Milbrook (1915): Lt Charles Granville Naylor
 * HMS Manners (1915): Lt Cdr Gerald Cartmell Harrison
 * 4th Division / 11th D.F.
 * HMS Moon (1915): Cdr (Acting) William Dion Irvin
 * HMS Mounsey (1915): Lt Cdr Ralph Vincent Eyre
 * HMS Morning Star (1915): Lt Cdr Hugh Undecimus Fletcher


 * 12th Destroyer Flotilla
 * Captain Anselan John Buchanan Stirling
 * HMS Faulknor (1914) (flotilla leader): Capt Stirling
 * First half-flotilla / 12th D.F.
 * 1st Division / 12th D.F.
 * HMS Obedient (1916): Cdr George William McOran Campbell
 * HMS Mindful (1915): Lt Cdr John Jackson Cuthbert Ridley
 * HMS Marvel (1915): Lt Cdr Reginald Watkins Grubb
 * HMS Onslaught (1915): Lt Cdr Arthur Gerald Onslow
 * 2nd Division / 12th D.F.
 * HMS Maenad (1915): Cdr John Pelham Champion
 * HMS Narwhal (1915): Lt Cdr Henry Victor Hudson
 * HMS Nessus (1915): Lt Cdr Eric Quentin Carter
 * HMS Noble (1915): Lt Cdr Henry Percy Boxer
 * Second half-flotilla / 12th D.F.: Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan
 * HMS Marksman (1915) (flotilla leader): Cdr Norton Allen Sulivan
 * HMS Opal (1915): Cdr Charles Geoffrey Coleridge Sumner
 * HMS Nonsuch (1915): Lt Cdr Herbert Inglis Nigel Lyon
 * HMS Menace (1915): Lt Cdr Charles Astley Poignand
 * HMS Munster (1915): Lt Cdr Spencer Francis Russell
 * HMS Mary Rose (1915): 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 Lambert Alexander Hood
 * Battlecruisers
 * HMS Invincible (1907) (sunk 31 May) (flagship): Capt Arthur Lindesay Cay
 * HMS Inflexible (1907): Capt Edward Henry Fitzhardinge Heaton-Ellis
 * HMS Indomitable (1907): Capt Francis William Kennedy
 * Accompanying cruisers
 * HMS Canterbury (1915) : Capt Percy Molyneux Rawson Royds
 * HMS Chester (1915) : Capt Robert Neale Lawson
 * Attached destroyers
 * HMS Shark (1912) (sunk 31 May): Cdr Loftus William Jones
 * HMS Ophelia (1915): Cdr Lewis Gonne Eyre Crabbe (Admiralty M class)
 * HMS Christopher (1912): Lt Cdr Fairfax Moresby Kerr
 * HMS Acasta (1912): 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 Rudolf Walter Bentinck

Battlecruisers

 * HMS Lion (1910): (flagship) Capt Alfred Chatfield
 * 1st Battlecruiser Squadron: RAdm Osmond Brock,
 * HMS Princess Royal (1911) (flagship): Capt Walter Henry Cowan,
 * HMS Queen Mary (sunk 31 May): Capt Cecil Irby Prowse
 * HMS Tiger (1913): Capt Henry Bertram Pelly.
 * 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron: RAdm. William Pakenham,.
 * HMS New Zealand (1911) (flagship): Capt John Green
 * HMS Indefatigable (1909) (sunk 31 May): Capt Charles Fitzgerald Sowerby

Light cruisers

 * 1st Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair
 * HMS Galatea (1914) Cdre Alexander-Sinclair
 * HMS Phaeton (1914): Capt John Cameron
 * HMS Inconstant (1914): Capt Bertram Thesiger
 * HMS Cordelia (1914): Capt Tufton Beamish
 * 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron: Cdre William Goodenough
 * HMS Southampton (1912): Cdre Goodenough
 * HMS Birmingham (1913): Capt Arthur Duff
 * HMS Nottingham (1913): Capt Charles Blois Miller
 * HMS Dublin (1912): Capt Albert Charles Scott
 * 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron: RAdm Trevylyan Napier
 * HMS Falmouth (1910) (flagship): Capt John Douglas Edwards
 * HMS Yarmouth (1911): Capt Thomas Drummond Pratt
 * HMS Birkenhead (1915): Capt Edward Reeves
 * HMS Gloucester (1909): Capt William Frederick Blunt

Attached vessel
 * seaplane tender HMS Engadine (1911): Lt Cdr Charles Gwillim Robinson
 * aircraft: 2 Short Type 184 reconnaissance seaplanes, 2 Sopwith Baby fighter seaplanes

Destroyers


13th Destroyer Flotilla Captain James Uchtred Farie
 * HMS Champion (1915) (light cruiser): Capt Farie
 * 1st Division / 13th D.F.
 * HMS Obdurate (1916): Lt Cdr Cecil Henry Hulton Sams
 * HMS Nerissa (1916): Lt Cdr Montague George Bentinck Legge
 * HMS Termagant (1915): Lt Cdr Cuthbert Patrick Blake (attached from 10th D.F., Harwich Force)
 * HMS Moresby (1915): Lt Cdr Roger Vincent Alison (detached to escort HMS Engadine)
 * 2nd Division / 13th D.F.
 * HMS Nestor (1915) (sunk 31 May): Cdr the Hon. Edward Bingham
 * HMS Nomad (1916) (sunk 31 May): Lt Cdr Paul Whitfield
 * HMS Nicator (1916): Lt Jack Ernest Albert Mocatta
 * HMS Onslow (1916): Lt Cdr John Tovey (detached to escort HMS Engadine)
 * 3rd Division / 13th D.F.
 * HMS Narborough (1916): Lt Cdr Geoffrey Corlett
 * HMS Pelican (1916): Lt Cdr Kenneth Adair Beattie
 * HMS Petard (1916): Lt Cdr Evelyn Thomson
 * HMS Turbulent (1916) (sunk 1 June): Lt Cdr Dudley Stuart


 * Attached Harwich Destroyers (9th Destroyer Flotilla): Cdr Malcolm Lennon Goldsmith
 * 1st division / 9th D.F.
 * HMS Lydiard (1914): Cdr Goldsmith
 * HMS Liberty (1913): Lt Cdr Philip Wilfred Sidney King
 * HMS Landrail (1914): Lt Cdr Francis Edward Henry Graham Hobart
 * 2nd division / 9th D.F.
 * HMS Moorsom (1914): Cdr John Coombe Hodgson (from 10th D.F.)
 * HMS Laurel (1913): Lt Henry Dawson Crawford Stanistreet
 * HMS Morris (1914): 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 Battle Cruiser Fleet soon after 6.00pm 30 May
 * Battleships
 * HMS Barham (04) (flagship): Capt Arthur William Craig
 * HMS Valiant (1914): Capt Maurice Woollcombe
 * HMS Warspite (03): Capt Edward Montgomery Phillpotts
 * HMS Malaya: Capt the Hon. Algernon Boyle


 * 1st Destroyer Flotilla
 * HMS Fearless (1912) (light cruiser): Capt Charles Donnison Roper
 * HMS Defender (1911): Lt Cdr Laurence Reynolds Palmer
 * 1st Division / 1st D.F.
 * HMS Acheron (1911): Cdr Charles Ramsey
 * HMS Ariel (1911): Lt Cdr Arthur Grendon Tippet
 * HMS Attack (1911): Lt Cdr Charles Herbert Neill James
 * HMS Hydra (1912): Lt Francis George Glossop
 * 2nd Division / 1st D.F.
 * HMS Badger (1911): Cdr Charles Albert Fremantle
 * HMS Lizard (1911): Lt Cdr Edward Brooke
 * HMS Goshawk (1911): Cdr Dashwood Fowler Moir
 * HMS Lapwing (1911): Lt Cdr Alexander Hugh Gye

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 (1913): KptzS Ernst Goette
 * SMS Kronprinz: KptzS Constanz Feldt
 * SMS Markgraf: KptzS Karl Seiferling


 * 6th Division: KAdm Hermann Nordmann
 * SMS Kaiser (1911) (flagship): KptzS Walter Freiherr von Keyserlingk
 * SMS Prinzregent Luitpold: KptzS Karl Heuser
 * SMS Kaiserin: KptzS Karl Sievers


 * Fleet Flagship (Flaggschiff der Hochseeflotte)
 * SMS Friedrich der Grosse (1911): 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 (1909): 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
 * Flag lieutenant: Korvettenkapitän Willy Kahlert


 * 3rd Division: KAdm Mauve
 * SMS Deutschland (1904) (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

 * 4th Scouting Group (IV. Aufklärungsgruppe) (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 (1914): 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 (1913): 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 (1913) (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Max Fink
 * 13th Half-Flotilla (13. Halbflottille): KptLt Georg von Zitzewitz
 * SMS S15 (1912) (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Christian Schmidt
 * SMS S17 (1912): KptLt Hans-Joachim von Puttkammer
 * SMS S20 (1912): KptLt Albert Benecke
 * SMS S16 (1912): KptLt Walter Loeffler
 * SMS S18 (1912): KptLt Bruno Haushalter
 * 14th Half-Flotilla (14. Halbflottille): Korvettenkapitän Hermann Cordes
 * SMS S19 (1912) (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Georg Reimer
 * SMS S23 (1913): KptLt Arthur von Killinger
 * SMS V189: OLtzS Wilhelm Keil

Scouting Force





 * 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
 * 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


 * 2nd Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (II. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
 * Commander Heinrich Schuur
 * SMS B98 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Theodor Hengstenberg


 * 3rd Half-Flotilla (3. Halbflottille): KKpt Heinrich Boest
 * SMS G101 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Rudolf Schulte
 * SMS G102: KptLt von Barendorff
 * SMS B112: KptLt Carl August Claussen
 * SMS B97: KptLt Leo Riedel


 * 4th Half-Flotilla (4. Halbflottille): 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


 * 6th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (VI. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
 * Lieut. Commander Max Schultz
 * SMS G41 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Hermann Boehm


 * 11th Half-Flotilla (11. Halbflottille) : KptLt Wilhelm Rüman
 * SMS V44 (lead boat, half-flotilla): KptLt Karl von Holleuffer
 * SMS G87: KptLt Siegfried Karstens
 * SMS G86: KptLt Kurt Grimm


 * 12th Half-Flotilla (12. Halbflottille): 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


 * 9th Torpedo-Boat Flotilla (IX. Torpedoboots-Flottille)
 * Lieut. Commander Herbert Goehle
 * SMS V28 (lead boat, flotilla): KptLt Otto Lenssen


 * 17th Half-Flotilla (17. Halbflottille): KptLt Hermann Ehrhardt
 * SMS V27 (sunk 31 May) (lead boat, half-flotilla): OLtzS Hartmut Buddecke
 * SMS V26: KptLt Hans Köhler
 * SMS S36 (1914): KptLt Franz Fischer
 * SMS S51: KptLt Werner Dette
 * SMS S52: KptLt Wilhelm Ehrentraut


 * 18th Half-Flotilla (17. Halbflottille): Korvettenkapitän Werner Tillessen
 * 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 (1914) (sunk 31 May): KptLt Friedrich Ihn

Submarines



 * Leader of Submarines (Führer der Unterseeboote) : KptzS 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:
 * SMU U-46: KptLt Leo Hillebrand
 * SMU U-67: KptLt Hans Nieland
 * Off the Humber Estuary:
 * SMU UB-21: KptLt Ernst Hashagen
 * Off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire:
 * SMU UB-22: OLtzS Bernhard Putzier
 * Off the Firth of Forth, Scotland:
 * SMU U-52: KptLt Hans Walter
 * SMU U-24: KptLt Rudolf Schneider
 * SMU U-70: KptLt Otto Wünsche
 * SMU U-32 (Germany): KptLt Fahr Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim
 * SMU U-51: KptLt Walter Rumpfel
 * SMU U-63 (Germany): KptLt Otto Schultze
 * SMU U-66: KptLt Thorwald von Bothmer
 * Off Peterhead, Scotland:
 * SMU U-47 (Germany): KptLt Heinrich Metzger
 * Off the Pentland Firth (between the Orkneys and the Scottish mainland):
 * SMU U-44: KptLt Paul Wagenführ
 * SMU U-43 (Germany): 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