Battle of Jutland

The Battle of Jutland, known in Germany as the Battle of the Skagerrak (Skagerrakschlacht), was the largest naval battle of World War I, and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was fought on 31 May–1 June 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, the mainland of Denmark. The combatants were the Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer, and the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, commanded by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe.

External links

• Beatty's official report
• Jellicoe's official despatch
• Jellicoe, extract from The Grand Fleet, published 1919
• Scheer, Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War, published 1920

Notable accounts:

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• by Rudyard Kipling
• by Alexander Grant, a gunner aboard HMS Lion
• by Moritz von Egidy, captain of SMS Seydlitz
• by Richard Foerster, gunnery officer on Seydlitz
• by Georg von Hase, gunnery officer on Derfflinger

(Note that due to the time zone difference, the times in some of the German accounts are two hours ahead of the times in this article.)

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