CONTENTS. PAGE PRELIMINARY DISTRIBUTION AND MOVEMENTS OF SQUADRONS- Information of Enemy's Movements and Orders given to Preliminary movements of the Fleet from Scapa Flow BATTLE CRUISER FORCE ACTION, PRIOR TO JUNCTION WITH THE Proceedings of the Fifth Battle Squadron prior to junction Proceedings of the Third Battle Cruiser Squadron, prior to MOVEMENTS OF THE BRITISH BATTLE FLEET Weather conditions JUNCTION OF THE BATTLE FLEET AND BATTLE CRUISERS GENERAL FLEET ACTION Times at which each ship opened fire PROCEEDINGS AFTER THE GENERAL FLEET ACTION CEASED PROCEEDINGS DURING THE NIGHT 51 54 PROCEEDINGS AFTER DAYLIGHT, 1st JUNE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND LIGHT CRUISER SQUADRON PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTEENTH FLOTILLA PROCEEDINGS OF DAMAGED BRITISH SHIPS AFTER PARTING COMPANY WITH THEIR SQUADRONS 97 103 VIII. IX. RECORD OF MESSAGES BEARING ON THE OPERATION X.-REPORT BY THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE GERMAN DIAGRAMS. I. TRACKS OF BRITISH SQUADRONS FROM NOON 31st MAY II. GENERAL PLAN OF THE DAY ACTION, 31st MAY 1916, III. BATTLE CRUISER ACTION, FIRST PHASE, 2.00 P.M. TO IV. APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS AT 2.32 P.M. 31st MAY 1916 V.-BATTLE CRUISER ACTION, SECOND PHASE, 3.40 P.M. TO VII. APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS AT 4.40 P.M. 31st MAY 1916 VIII.—BATTLE CRUISER ACTION, THIRD PHASE, 5.00 P.M. TO 6.00 P.M. 31st MAY 1916, INCLUDING JUNCTION WITH BATTLE FLEET IX.-APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS AT 5.56 P.M. 31st MAY 1916 X.-PLAN OF ACTION BETWEEN MAIN FLEETS, 6.00 P.M. TO XII. APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS AT 7.15 P.M. 31st MAY 1916 XIII.—APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS AT 7.25 P.M. 31st MAY 1916 XIV.-PLAN OF ACTION BETWEEN MAIN FLEETS, 8.00 P.M. TO 9.00 P.M. 31st MAY 1916 XV.-MOVEMENTS BETWEEN 9.00 P.M. 31st MAY 1916 AND XVII. APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS AT 2.50 A.M. 1st JUNE XVIII.-MOVEMENTS BETWEEN 3.30 A.M. AND NOON 1st JUNE 1916 PAGE 106 110 110 114 117 118 119 121 PRELIMINARY DISTRIBUTION AND MOVEMENTS OF SQUADRONS. On Tuesday, 30th May 1916, the sea-going ships of the Grand Fleet were distributed between the three Northern Bases, as follows: AT SCAPA FLOW. IRON DUKE, Captain Frederick C. Dreyer, C.B. (Fleet Flagship). Flying the flag of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, G.C.B., K.C.V.O., Commander-in-Chief. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Madden, K.C.B., C.V.O., Chief-of-Staff; Commodore Lionel Halsey, C.M.G., Captainof-the-Fleet. Attached to Fleet Flagship Destroyer: OAK, Lieutenant-Commander Douglas Faviell, M.V.O. Flotilla Leader : (Fitted as a mine-layer), ABDIEL, Commander Berwick Curtis. Light Cruiser : ACTIVE, Captain Percy Withers. Seaplane Carrier: CAMPANIA (was unable to raise steam in time to sail with the Fleet, left Scapa at 1.30 a.m., but was ordered back with defects at 4.30 a.m., 31st). Kite Balloon Ship : MENELAUS (did not sail). First Battle Squadron. MARLBOROUGH, Captain George P. Ross. Flying the flag of Vice- HERCULES, Captain Lewis Clinton-Baker. COLOSSUS, Captain Alfred D. P. R. Pound. Flying the flag of Rear- COLLINGWOOD, Captain James C. Ley. ST. VINCENT, Captain William W. Fisher, M.V.O. Attached to First Battle Squadron Light Cruiser: BELLONA, Captain Arthur B. S. Dutton. (ROYAL SOVEREIGN, which had commissioned on 18th April 1916 and arrived at Scapa Flow on 25th May, did not proceed to sea with the Fleet.) Fourth Battle Squadron. BENBOW, Captain Henry W. Parker. Flying the flag of Vice-Admiral TEMERAIRE, Captain Edwin V. Underhill. ROYAL OAK, Captain Crawford Maclachlan. SUPERB, Captain Edmond Hyde-Parker. Flying the flag of Rear- Attached to Fourth Battle Squadron Light Cruiser: BLANCHE, Captain John M. Casement. (EMPEROR OF INDIA, Second Flagship of this squadron, was at this time refitting at Invergordon; the flag was flown temporarily in SUPERB.) Third Battle Cruiser Squadron. INVINCIBLE, Captain Arthur L. Cay. Flying the flag of RearAdmiral The Hon. Horace L. A. Hood, C.B., M.V.O., D.S.O. INDOMITABLE, Captain Francis W. Kennedy. INFLEXIBLE, Captain Edward H. F. Heaton-Ellis, M.V.O. To this squadron were temporarily attached Light Cruisers : CHESTER, Captain Robert N. Lawson, belonging to Third Light Cruiser Squadron. CANTERBURY, Captain Percy M. R. Royds. Second Cruiser Squadron (organised that day out of the ships of the old Second and Seventh Cruiser Squadrons). MINOTAUR, Captain Arthur C. S. H. D'Aeth. Flying the flag of Rear-Admiral Herbert L. Heath, M.V.O. HAMPSHIRE, Captain Herbert J. Savill. COCHRANE, Captain Eustace La T. Leatham. SHANNON, Captain John S. Dumaresq, M.V.O. (ACHILLES was away refitting, and DONEGAL on detached service.) Fourth Light Cruiser Squadron. CALLIOPE, Commodore Charles E. Le Mesurier. CONSTANCE, Captain Cyril S. Townsend. COMUS, Captain Alan G. Hotham. CAROLINE, Captain H. Ralph Crooke. ROYALIST, Captain The Hon. Herbert Meade, D.S.O. Fourth Flotilla. Flotilla Leaders: TIPPERARY, Captain Charles J. Wintour (Captain D. IV). Destroyers: ACHATES, Commander Reginald B. C. Hutchinson, D.S.O. SPITFIRE, Lieutenant-Commander Clarence W. E. Trelawney. ACASTA, Lieutenant-Commander John O. Barron. HARDY, Commander Richard A. A. Plowden. MIDGE, Lieutenant-Commander James R. C. Cavendish. Part of Eleventh Flotilla. Light Cruiser : CASTOR, Commodore James R. P. Hawksley, M.V.O. (Commodore Destroyers: MARNE, Lieutenant-Commander George B. Hartford. MONS, Lieutenant-Commander Robert Makin. Flotilla Leaders : Twelfth Flotilla. FAULKNOR, Captain Anselan J. B. Stirling (Captain D.XII). |