Order of battle at Dogger Bank (1915)
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This is the order of battle for the British and German fleets at the Battle of Dogger Bank
Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)
The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle fought near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea on 24 January 1915, during the First World War, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet....

, January 24, 1915.

First Battlecruiser Squadron

Lion
HMS Lion (1910)
HMS Lion was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, the lead ship of her class, which were nicknamed the "Splendid Cats". They were significant improvements over their predecessors of the in terms of speed, armament and armour...

 (Vice-Admiral David Beatty
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO was an admiral in the Royal Navy...

)

Princess Royal
HMS Princess Royal (1911)
HMS Princess Royal was the second of two s built for the Royal Navy before World War I. Designed in response to the s of the German Navy, the ships significantly improved on the speed, armament, and armour of the preceding...



Tiger
HMS Tiger (1913)
The 11th HMS Tiger was a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, built by John Brown and Company, Clydebank, Scotland, and launched in 1913. Tiger was the most heavily armoured battlecruiser of the Royal Navy at the start of the First World War although she was still being finished when the war began...


Second Battlecruiser Squadron

New Zealand
HMS New Zealand (1911)
HMS New Zealand was one of three s built for the defence of the British Empire. Launched in 1911, the ship's construction was funded by the government of New Zealand as a gift to Britain, and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1912...

 (Rear-Admiral Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Sir Gordon Moore KCB CVO was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord.-Naval career:...

)

Indomitable
HMS Indomitable (1907)
HMS Indomitable was an of the British Royal Navy. She was built before World War I and had an active career during the war. She tried to hunt down the German ships Goeben and Breslau in the Mediterranean when war broke out and bombarded Turkish fortifications protecting the Dardanelles even...


First Light Cruiser Squadron

Southampton
HMS Southampton (1912)
HMS Southampton was a Royal Navy warship that served in the First World War.Southampton was one of the third batch of "Town" class light cruisers, her sister ships were Dublin and Chatham...

 (Commodore William Goodenough
William Goodenough
Admiral Sir William Edmund Goodenough GCB, MVO was a senior Royal Navy officer of World War I.-Naval career:Goodenough joined the Royal Navy in 1882. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in 1905...

)

Birmingham
HMS Birmingham (1913)
HMS Birmingham was lead ship of the Birmingham group of three ships of the "Town" class of light cruisers built by the Royal Navy. Her sister ships were and...



Nottingham
HMS Nottingham (1913)
The fifth HMS Nottingham was launched in 1913 and commissioned in 1914. A light Town class light cruiser of , in length and a complement of 401 men, she had thick armour plating and was armed with nine guns, one 13-pounder anti-aircraft gun and two torpedo tubes...



Lowestoft
HMS Lowestoft (1913)
HMS Lowestoft was a Town-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 23 April 1913 from Chatham Dockyard. She was part of the Birmingham subgroup....


Attached Destroyers

(soon to become the Tenth Destroyer Flotilla)

Meteor
HMS Meteor (1914)
HMS Meteor was a Thornycroft M class destroyer that served in the Royal Navy.Built by Thornycroft & Company, Southampton, she was launched on the 24 July 1914.HMS Meteor saw extensive service throughout the First World War...

 (Commander Meade)

Miranda

Milne

Mentor

Mastiff

Minos

Morris

Third Destroyer Flotilla

Undaunted
HMS Undaunted (1914)
HMS Undaunted was an Arethusa-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy launched on 28 April 1914 at Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company's shipyard at Govan.Undaunted participated in numerous naval operations during the First World War...

 (Captain St. George)

Lookout

Lysander

Landrail

Laurel

Liberty

Laertes
HMS Laertes (1913)
HMS Laertes was a Laforey-class destroyer of the Royal Navy.-Construction:She was launched from the yards of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend, on 5 June 1913 under the name HMS Sarpedon. She was renamed HMS Laertes on 30 September 1913...



Lucifer

Lawford

Lydiard
HMS Lydiard (1914)
HMS Lydiard was a Laforey class torpedo boat destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 26 February 1914.She served in World War I with the 3rd Destroyer Flotilla, and fought at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914 and the Battle of Jutland in 1916...



Louis
HMS Louis (1913)
HMS Louis was a Royal Navy Laforey-class destroyer, built as HMS Talisman, but renamed on 30 September 1913 before being launched. She was wrecked in Suvla Bay on 31 October 1915.-Career:...



Legion
HMS Legion (1914)
HMS Legion was a Laforey-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Launched prior to the outbreak of the First World War, she was attached to the Harwich Force and served in the North Sea...



Lark

First Destroyer Flotilla

Aurora
HMS Aurora (1913)
HMS Aurora was an Arethusa-class light cruiser launched on 30 September 1913 at Devonport Dockyard.Construction started in 1912 and she was commissioned into the Royal Navy and saw service as part of the Grand Fleet from 1914 to 1915, as leader of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla...

 (Captain Nicholson)

Acheron
HMS Acheron (1911)
HMS Acheron was the name ship of the Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named after the River Acheron, believed in Greek Mythology to be a branch of the River Styx...



Attack
HMS Attack (1911)
HMS Attack was an Acheron-class destroyer built in 1911, which served during the First World War and was sunk in 1917 in the Mediterranean by a German U-Boat...



Hydra
HMS Hydra (1912)
HMS Hydra was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1912, fought throughout World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921.-Pennant Numbers:-Construction:...



Ariel
HMS Ariel (1911)
HMS Ariel was an Acheron-class destroyer built in 1911, which served during the First World War and sank in 1918 after striking a mine...



Forester
HMS Forester (1911)
HMS Forester was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the ninth Royal Navy ship to be named after the traditional craft of forester.-Construction:...



Defender
HMS Defender (1911)
HMS Defender was an Acheron-class destroyer which was built in 1911, served throughout World War I and was broken up in 1921. She was the fifth ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.-Construction:...



Druid
HMS Druid (1911)
HMS Druid was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the sixth Royal Navy ship to be named Druid, after the Druids of Celtic polytheism.-Construction:...



Hornet
HMS Hornet (1911)
HMS Hornet was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the First World War and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Hornet, after the insect of the same name.-Construction:...



Tigress
HMS Tigress (1911)
HMS Tigress was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I. She was built under the 1910–11 shipbuilding programme by R. W...



Sandfly
HMS Sandfly (1911)
HMS Sandfly was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named after the small biting fly of the same name.-Construction:...



Jackal
HMS Jackal (1911)
HMS Jackal was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during the World War I and was sold for breaking in 1920. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named Jackal, after the predatory mammal of the same name.-Construction:...



Goshawk
HMS Goshawk (1911)
HMS Goshawk was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the sixth Royal Navy ship to be named after the bird of prey, Accipiter gentilis.-Construction:...



Phoenix
HMS Phoenix (1911)
HMS Phoenix was an Acheron-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She is named for the mythical bird, and was the fifteenth ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name...



Lapwing
HMS Lapwing (1911)
HMS Lapwing was an Acheron-class destroyer of the Royal Navy that served during World War I and was sold for breaking in 1921. She was the seventh Royal Navy ship to be named after vanellus vanellus, the Northern Lapwing.-Construction:...


I Scouting Group (Battlecruisers)

Seydlitz
SMS Seydlitz
SMS Seydlitz"SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. was a 25,000-metric ton battlecruiserAdmiral Alfred von Tirpitz referred to the ship as a large cruiser in his annual budgets in an attempt to reduce opposition from the Reichstag; the ship was not referred...

 (Vice-Admiral Hipper
Franz von Hipper
Franz Ritter von Hipper was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy . Franz von Hipper joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as Kaiser Wilhelm II's yacht Hohenzollern...

)

Moltke

Derfflinger
SMS Derfflinger
SMS Derfflinger"SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff", or "His Majesty's Ship" in German. was a battlecruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine built just before the outbreak of World War I. She was the lead vessel of her class of three ships; her sister ships were and...



Blücher
SMS Blücher
SMS Blücher was the last armored cruiser to be built by the German Imperial Navy . She was designed to match what German intelligence incorrectly believed to be the specifications of the British s...


II Scouting Group (Light Cruisers)

Graudenz
SMS Graudenz
SMS Graudenz was the lead ship of the her class of light cruisers. The ship was built by the German Imperial Navy in the Kiel Navy Yard, laid down in 1912 and completed in August 1914, at the outbreak of World War I. It was named for the German town of Graudenz, West Prussia...

 (Rear-Admiral Hebbingbaus)

Rostock
SMS Rostock
SMS Rostock was a light cruiser of the built by the German Kaiserliche Marine . She had one sister ship, ; the ships were very similar to the previous s. The ship was laid down in 1911, launched in November 1912, and completed by February 1914...



Kolberg
SMS Kolberg
SMS Kolberg was a light cruiser of the German Navy during the First World War.It took part in the raid on Yarmouth and the raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in 1914, and the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in 1915.- References :...



Stralsund
SMS Stralsund
SMS Stralsund was a Magdeburg class light cruiser of the German Kaiserliche Marine.-Service history:Stralsund was assigned to the II Scouting Group, alongside her sistership Strassburg, at the start of World War I. She participated in the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915, as part of the...


10 Torpedo Boat Half-Flotilla

G 1 (Commander Heinecke)

G 9

G 7

G 8

V 2

18 Torpedo Boat Half-Flotilla

V 30 (Lieutenant-Commander Tillessen)

V 33

S 34

S 29

S 35
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