![]() The remainder of the Rosyth force consisted of twelve light cruisers in three squadrons, and three destroyer flotillas. In place of the 3rd Battlecruiser Squadron which had been detached to Scapa for gunnery practice, in May 1916 Beatty had the 5th Battle Squadron of four fast battleships to complement his six serviceable battlecruisers. Beatty’s Battlecruiser Fleet at Rosyth was built around three squadrons of battlecruisers, fast and heavily-armed but less well protected than battleships. At the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916 Admiral Jellicoe’s Battle Fleet joined forces with the Battlecruiser Fleet commanded by Vice-Admiral Beatty.Īt Jellicoe’s disposal at Scapa and Invergordon were 24 battleships, three battlecruisers, eight heavy cruisers, eleven light cruisers, and three flotillas of destroyers. During the First World War Britain’s Grand Fleet dominated the North Sea from its bases at Scapa Flow in Orkney, Invergordon on the Cromarty Firth and Rosyth on the Forth, while smaller forces operated from east coast ports in England.
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