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The Order of Battle.
The two fleets had a simular construction. They where both divided into a main fleet and a battlecruiser fleet.

The Battleships and the Battlecruisers are listed as they where deployed from the van to the rear.

Abriviations
 Flagship
 Fleet commander
 Broad pennant
AD - Admiral, VA - Viceadmiral, RA - Rear Admiral, KA - Kontradmiral , Cpt - Captain, Cmd - Commander

  Vice-Admiral Beatty   Vizeadmiral Hipper

Battlecruisers
1st Battlecruiser Squadron
Lion
Princess Royal
Queen Mary
Tiger

2nd Battlecruiser Squadron
New Zealand  (RA W. C. Pakenham)
Indefatigable

 









Battlecruisers

Lützow
Derfflinger
Seydlitz
Moltke
Von der Tann






Fast Battleships
5th Battle Squadron
Barham (RA Hugh Evan-Thomas)
Valiant
Warspite
Malaya






Light Cruisers
1st Light Cruiser Squadron
Galatea (Cmd E. S. Alexander-Sinclair)
Phaeton
Inconstant
Cordelia

2nd Light Cruiser Squadron
Southampton (Cmd W. E. Goodenough)
Birmingham
Nottingham
Dublin

3rd Light Cruiser Squadron
Falmouth (RA T. D. W. Napier)
Yarmouth
Birkenhead
Gloucester
 


















Light Cruisers
Frankfurt  (KA F. Bödicker)
Wiesbaden
Pillau
Elbing





Destroyers

1st Flotilla (Cpt. C. D. Roper)
Fearless (Light Cruiser )
Acheron
Ariel
Attack
Badger
Defender
Goshawk
Hydra
Lapwing
Lizard

9th and 10th Flotilla (combined)
Lydiard (Leader, Cmd M. L. Goldsmith)
Landrail
Laurel
Liberty
Moorsom
Morris
Termagant
Turbulent

13th Flotilla (Cpt. Captain J. U. Farie)Champion (Light Cruiser)
Moresby
Narborough
Nerissa
Nestor
Nicator
Nomad
Obdurat
Onslow
Pelican
Petard







































Torpedoboats
 (Kommodore Heinrich)
Regensburg (light cruiser)

IIFlottila
B98 (leader)

III Halv-Flotilla
G101
G102
B112
B97

IV Halv-Flotilla
B109
B110
B111
G103
G104

VI Flottila
G41 (leader)

XI Halv-Flotilla
V44
G87
G86


XII Halv-Flotilla
V69

V45
V46
S50
G37

IX Flottila
V28 (leader)

XVII Halv-Flotilla
V27
V26
S36
S51
S52

XVII Halv-Flotilla
V30
S34
S33
V29
S35


























































  Admiral Jellico   Vizeadmiral Scheer

Battleships

2nd Battle Squadron
King George V (VA Sir Martyn Jerram)
Ajax
Centurion
Erin

Orion  (RA A. C. Leveson)
Monarch
Conqueror
Thunder



4th Battle Squadron

Iron Duke   (Admiral
Sir John Jellicoe, C-in-C)
Royal Oak
Superb  (RA A. L. Duff)
Canada 




Benbow
 (VA Sir Doveton Sturdee)
Bellerophon
Temeraire
Vanguard


1st Battle Squadron
Colossus  (Rear-Admiral E. F. A. Gaunt)
Collingwood
Neptune
St Vincent



Marlborough
 (Vice-Admiral
Sir Cecil Burney)
Revenge
Hercules
Agincourt 


































Battleships

III Battle Squadron
König  (KA P. Behncke)
Grosser Kurfürst
Kronprinz
Markgraf


Kaiser
 (KA H. Nordmann)
Kaiserin
Prinzregent Luitpold,
Friedrich der Grosse  
(fleet flagship/VA Scheer, C-in-Cs)


I Battle Squadron
Ostfriesland  (VA E. Schmidt)
Thüringen
Helgoland
Oldenburg



Posen
 (KA W. Englehardt)
Rheinland
Nassau
Westfalen

 



II Battle Squadron (pre-dreadnougts)
Deutschland  (KA F. Mauve)
Hessen
Pommern



Hannover
 (KA F. von Dalwigk
zu Lichtenfels)
Schlesien
Schleswig-Holstein





































Battlecruisers

3rd Battlecruiser squadron
Invincible
 (RA The Honourable
H. L. A. Hood)
Inflexible
Indomitable

Armoured Cruisers

1st Cruiser Squadron
Defence (RA Sir Robert Arbuthnot)
Warrior
Duke of Edinburgh
Black Prince

2nd Cruiser Squadron
Minotaur  (RA H. L. Heath)
Hampshire
Cochrane
Shannon

 






















 

 

Light Cruisers

4th Light Cruiser Squadron
Calliope (broad pennant of
Commodore C. E. Le Mesurier),
Constance
Caroline 
Royalist
Comus

Attached Light Cruisers
Active
Bellona
Blanche
Boadicea
Canterbury
Chester

 



















Light Cruisers

IV Scouting Group Stettin  (Kommodore von Reuter)

München
Hamburg
Frauenlob
Stuttgart 









Destroyers

4th Flotilla
Tipperary (Leader, Cpt C. J. Wintour)
Acasta
Achates
Ambuscade
Ardent
Broke
Christopher
Contest
Fortune
Garland
Hardy
Midge
Ophelia
Owl
Porpoise
Shark
Sparrowhawk
Spitfire
Unity

11th Flotilla
Castor (Light Cruiser, Commodore
J. R. P. Hawksley)
Kempenfelt
Magic
Mandate
Manners
Marne
Martial
Michael,
Milbrook
Minion
Mons
Moon
Morning Star
Mounsey
Mystic
Ossory

12th Flotilla
Faulknor (Leader, Cpt A. J. Stirling)
Maenad
Marksman
Marvel
Mary Rose
Menace
Mindful
Mischief
Munster
Narwhal
Nessus
Noble
Nonsuch
Obedient
Onslaught
Opal























 

 















 
















Torpedoboats
Light Cruiser Rostock  (Kommodore Michelson)

I Half Flotilla
G39 (leader)
G40
G38
S32

III Flotilla
S53 (leader)

V Half Flotilla
V71
V73
G88

VI Half Flotilla
S54
V48
G42

V Flotilla
G11 (leader)

IX Half Flotilla
V2
V4
V6
V1
V3

X Half Flotilla
G8
G7
V5
G9
G10

VII Flotilla
VII S24 (leader)

XIII Half Flotilla
S15
S17
S20
S16
S18

XIV Half Flotilla
S19
S23
V189
V186