The British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet fielded a total of fifty-eight dreadnought battleships and battle cruisers, ships over the twice the size of most modern surface combatants.

At the height of World War I, Germany’s High Seas Fleet remained trapped in port by the dominant British Royal Navy. Admiral Reinhard Scheer devised a plan to lure part of the British Grand ...

¶ Were warned by Hero-Admiral Earl Beatty, Commander of the British Grand Fleet (1916-19), First Sea Lord (1919-27), “our situation with regard to cruisers is indeed serious.” He recalled ...

In May 1916, Captain Ernest Clegg, a British company commander on the Western Front, ... the Grand Fleet steamed out on emergency orders and the Battle of Jutland, ...

Falmouth was the last British ship to report a sighting of German warships before they fled back to their base in Germany, so weakened and terrified of meeting the British Grand Fleet again that ...