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Updated: June 13, 2025
Gradually he was overhauled, each of the leading British cruisers, Lion, Tiger, and Princess Royal firing salvos into the slower Blücher as they passed on to tackle the Moltke, Seydlitz, and Derfflinger.
The German fleet which was engaged in this raid consisted of the Seydlitz, Moltke, Derfflinger, and Blücher, in company with a fleet of destroyers. The German ships were not quite as fast as the English ships, nor did they carry guns of such range or destructive power as their British opponents.
BRITISH GERMAN Displace- Displace- Name Armor ment Guns Name Armor ment Guns Queen Mary 9" 26,350 8 13.5" Lützow 13" 26,180 8 12" Lion 9" 26,350 8 13.5" Derfflinger 13" 26,180 8 12" Tiger 9" 28,500 8 13.5" Seydlitz 11" 24,610 10 11" Princess Royal 9" 28,350 8 13.5" Moltke 11" 22,640 10 11" Indefatigable 8" 18,800 8 12" VonderTann 10" 19,100 11" New Zealand 8" 18,800 8 12" 145,150 118,710
He could make 29 knots with all six of his cruisers and 32 knots with his four best, Queen Mary, Tiger, Lion, and Princess Royal. Hipper's squadron could make but 28 knots, though the Lützow and Derfflinger were probably capable of 30. At 3.48 British and German battle cruisers opened fire. According to Beatty's report the range at this moment was 18,500 yards.
Enemy light cruisers were sighted and shortly afterward the head of the German battle cruiser squadron, consisting of the new cruiser Hindenburg, the Seydlitz, Derfflinger, Lützow, Moltke, and possibly the Salamis. The Germans could see the British distinctly outlined against the light yellow sky. The Germans, covered by a haze, could be very indistinctly made out by the British gunners.
In addition to these first-class battleships, Germany had certain others, individual in type, such as the Von der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Seydlitz, Derfflinger, Fürst Bismarck, Prinz Heinrich, Prinz Adalbert, Roon and Yorck, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Blücher, Magdeburg, Strassburg, Breslau, Stralsund, Rostock, and Karlsruhe.
The Lutzow and the Pommern were sunk; the battleship Konig was so battered that her forecastle was only 61/2 feet above water when she struggled into port; and the Seydlitz and the Derfflinger were in little better case. At 5.56 Beatty sighted Jellicoe's battleships at five miles' distance on his port bow.
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