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| 1916 | Hipper, Franz von |  |
| 31st May Jutland Germans have 16 Dreadnoughts, 6 pre-Dreadnoughts, 11 light cruisers & 72 destroyers
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| 31st May Jutland Hipper & Beatty's destroyers see each other & the Germans entice the British fleet
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| 31st May Jutland Leads 5 cruisers along the Jutland Peninsula to break the British North Sea blockade
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| 1916 | Scheer, Reinhard | |
| 31st May Jutland Follows von Hipper with the German Fleet of 99 ships along the Jutland Peninsula
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| 31st May Jutland Intends to entice British battle-cruisers offf the Norwegian coast & destroy them
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| 1st June Jutland Both sides lose 6 ships but the British lose greater tonnage
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| 1st June Jutland Scheer is outgunned by Jellicoe's fleet & turns away under cover of smokescreens
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| 1st June Jutland The German Fleet retrurns to port & does not break out again during the war
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| 1st June Jutland The Germans claim a victory because they have sunk more ships than they have lost
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