Talk:Grand Fleet

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Wouldn't the 3rd battlecruiser squadron belong in the "The Battlecruiser Fleet" list ? I am putting it there as it is logical, but please confirm. Also, is it normal that there is no 3rd Battle Squadron ? Tovarich1917 01:37, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Simple information please!
It has recently come to my attention, that though this and several other web sites contained interesting and detailed information, some basics are not blatently stated, for instance, exactly how many ships were actually in the British Grand Fleet? How many were sunk? etc.

Zor0 05:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

The 3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron under Hood was at Scapa Flow for Gunnery Practice hence the 5th Battle Squadron under Evan-Thomas being attached to the Battle Cruiser force under Beatty. Until the two force combined 3rd Battlecruiser was under Jellicoe and attached to the main body of the Grand Fleet and the 5th Battle Squadron force of the 4 QEs class (with the 5th QE (QE herself) under refit) were part of Beatty's force. Without the 5th Beatty would have been in real trouble after QM blew up. 3rd Battle squadron were older ships including HMS Dreadnought were based in Harwick and did not join the main body

information on battles
I feel it would improve the article to have at least a section with a summary of the battle of Jutland, at least, if not the smaller-scale battles fought by portions of the grand fleet. while the mention in the introduction is good, the rest of the article seems more of a list. Also,why no mention of the commander of the Fleet?

Merger needed
This article ought to tell people something about the Grand fleet. Is there a different article doing that? At the moment it is basically identical to the article Order of battle at Jutland, except that latter also has information for the German side as well. I would suggest deleting the entire order of battle here and just putting a link to the 'jutland' page. This article should exist, but not simply as a copy of the same list under a different title. compare with the Kaiserliche Marine article about the history of the Imperial German Navy? Sandpiper (talk) 13:39, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * I tried classifying the page as a Stub not so long ago because if one had taken away the Order of Battle, that's all it would have been. Someone thought differently for a reason known only unto themselves.  I might write the workings of a lead section which will suffice until the article can be expanded (currently re-reading Jellicoe's The Grand Fleet atm)  It would be a shame to make a it a redirect.  There are already enough of those floating around already, such as Operation ZZ. --Harlsbottom (talk | library | book reviews) 22:02, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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