Night action at the Battle of Jutland

Battle of Jutland
	Part of World War I
	; The Battle of Jutland, 1916
Date	31 May 1916 – 1 June 1916
Location	North Sea, near Denmark56°42′N 5°54′E / 56.700°N 5.900°E
Result	British victory
Belligerents
; Grand Fleet of the; Royal Navy	; High Seas Fleet of the; Kaiserliche Marine
Commanders and leaders
Sir John Jellicoe; Sir David Beatty	Reinhard Scheer; Franz Hipper
Strength
28 battleships; 9 battlecruisers; 8 armoured cruisers; 26 light cruisers; 78 destroyers; 1 minelayer; 1 seaplane carrier	16 battleships; 5 battlecruisers; 6 pre-dreadnoughts; 11 light cruisers; 61 torpedo-boats
Casualties and losses
6,094 killed; 510 wounded; 177 captured ; ; 3 battlecruisers ; 3 armoured cruisers ; 8 destroyers ; (113,300 tons sunk)	2,551 killed; 507 wounded ; 1 pre-dreadnought ; 1 battlecruiser ; 4 light cruisers ; 5 destroyers ; (62,300 tons sunk)

The Battle of Jutland took place in the North Sea between the German High Seas Fleet and British Grand Fleet on the afternoon and evening of 31 May 1916, continuing sporadically through the night into the early hours of 1 June. The battle was the only direct engagement between the two fleets throughout World War I. The war had already been waged for two years without any major sea battle, and many of the people present did not expect that this patrol would end differently. Lack of experience still accounted for a number of mistakes by the combatants. The battle has been described in a number of phases, the last of which is the subject of this article.