Leggett flag lieutenants: Cdr the Hon. Matthew Robert Best, M.V.O., Cdr Charles Morton Forbes, Cdr Alexander Raill Wadham, Cdr Richard Lindsay Nicholson Battleships 2nd Battle Squadron (battleships) Vice-Admiral Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram Sortied from Cromarty Firth; rendevoused with Jellicoe's force around noon 31 May 1st Division: VAdm Jerram (flagship): Capt Frederick Field : Capt George Henry Baird : Capt Michael Culme-Seymour : Capt the Hon. Victor Stanley 2nd Division: RAdm Arthur Leveson (flagship): Capt Oliver Backhouse : Capt George Borrett : Capt Hugh Tothill : Capt James Fergusson Fleet Flagship (at head of 3rd Division but not part of 4th Battle Squadron) : Capt Frederic Charles Dreyer 4th Battle Squadron (battleships) Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet Flag commander: Cdr William Milbourne James 3rd Division: RAdm Sir Alexander Duff : Capt Crawford Maclachlan (flagship): Capt Edmond Hyde Parker : Capt William Nicholson 4th Division: VAdm Sturdee (flagship): Capt Henry Wise Parker : Capt Edward Francis Bruen : Capt Edwin Veale Underhill : Capt James Douglas Dick 1st Battle Squadron (battleships) Admiral Sir Cecil Burney Chief of Staff: Cdre Percy Grant Flag lieutenant: Lt Cdr James Buller Kitson 5th Division: RAdm Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt (flagship): Capt Dudley Pound : Capt James Clement Ley : Capt William Wordsworth Fisher Capt Vivian Bernard 6th Division: VAdm Burney (flagship): Capt George Parish Ross : Capt Edward Buxton Kiddle : Capt Lewis Clinton-Baker : Capt Henry Montagu Doughty Cruisers 1st Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers) Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet (flagship): Capt Stanley Venn Ellis : Capt Vincent Barkly Molteno : Capt Henry Blackett : Capt Thomas Parry Bonham 2nd Cruiser Squadron (armoured cruisers) Rear-Admiral Herbert Leopold Heath (flagship): Capt Arthur Cloudesley Shovel Hughes D'Aeth : Capt Herbert John Savill : Capt John Saumarez Dumaresq : Capt Eustace La Trobe Leatham 4th Light Cruiser Squadron Commodore Charles Edward Le Mesurier : Cdre Le Mesurier : Capt Cyril Samuel Townsend : Capt Alan Geoffrey Hotham : Capt Henry Ralph Crooke : Capt the Hon. Herbert Meade Light cruisers attached for repeating visual signals : Capt Louis Charles Stirling Woollcombe (attached to 2nd B.S.) : Capt Percy Withers (attached to Fleet Flagship) : Capt John Moore Casement (attached to 4th B.S.) : Capt Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton (attached to 1st B.S.) Other ships under direct command of the Commander-in-Chief : Cdr Berwick Curtis (destroyer-minelayer) : Lt Cdr Douglas Faviell (destroyer) Destroyers 4th Destroyer