Battle of Jutland

[Kunal Biswas]

Battle of Jutland

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Date 31 May 1916 – 1 June 1916
Location : North Sea, near Denmark
Result : Tactically inconclusive; British dominance of the North Sea maintained

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[Kunal Biswas]

Battle of Jutland

The Battle of Jutland (German: Skagerrakschlacht) was a naval battle fought by the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet (which also included ships and individual personnel from the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Canadian Navy[1]) against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War. The battle was fought on 31 May and 1 June 1916 in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the war.

Reinhard Scheer.

Captain (later admiral of the fleet) John Jellicoe

The High Seas Fleet was commanded by Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer, and the Grand Fleet by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. The German fleet's intention was to lure out, trap, and destroy a portion of the Grand Fleet, as the German naval force was insufficient to successfully engage the entire British fleet. This formed part of a larger strategy to break the British blockade of Germany and to allow German mercantile shipping to operate. Meanwhile, the Royal Navy pursued a strategy to engage and destroy the High Seas Fleet, or keep the German force contained and away from Britain's own shipping lanes.

 

[Kunal Biswas]

Order of battle

Royal Navy:

3 × Iron Duke class

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4 × Queen Elizabeth class

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4 × Orion class

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3 × King George V

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3 × Bellerophon class

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2 × Revenge class

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2 × Colossus class

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3 × Vincent class battleships

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"Something wrong with our bloody ships"

One of my favorite military quotes:

Shortly after 16:26, a salvo struck on or around HMS Princess Royal, which was obscured by spray and smoke from shell bursts. A signalman promptly leapt on to the bridge of Lion and announced "Princess Royal's blown up, Sir." Beatty famously turned to his flag captain, saying "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today." (In popular legend, Beatty also immediately ordered his ships to "turn two points to port", i.e., two points nearer the enemy, but there is no official record of any such command or course change.)[46] Princess Royal, as it turned out, was still afloat after the spray cleared.

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