 After this he was given a backwater assignment, command of (part of a pre-dreadnought battle squadron at the Nore) in 1916.Fortunately, after the disappointing 31 May – 1 June 1916 Battle of Jutland resulted in the appointment of his admirer Admiral David Beatty as Grand Fleet CIC in December Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives 
1916, assisted by his memorandums that predicted the beginning of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany beginning 1 February 1917, he received command of in the Grand Fleet in April 1917, after which he served as director of staff duties and training in 1918, then commanded in 1919.In early 1917 Richmond lobbied hard for convoy protection of merchant shipping in the North Sea, but the Admiralty resisted despite mounting losses, waiting until the end of April to experiment.