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Page 23
After the first violent onslaught into the mass of the superior
enemy the opponents lost sight of each other in the smoke by powder
clouds. After a short cessation in the artillery combat Vice
Admiral Scheer ordered a new attack by all the available forces.
German battle cruisers, which with several light cruisers and
torpedo boats again headed the line, encountered the enemy soon
after 9 o'clock and renewed the heavy fire, which was answered by
them from the mist, and then by the leading division of the main
fleet. Armored cruisers now flung themselves in a reckless onset at
extreme speed against the enemy line in order to cover the attack
of the torpedo boats. They approached the enemy line, although
covered with shot from 6,000 meters distances. Several German
torpedo flotillas dashed forward to attack, delivered torpedoes,
and returned, despite the most severe counterfire, with the loss of
only one boat. The bitter artillery fire was again interrupted,
after this second violent onslaught, by the smoke from guns and
funnels.
Several torpedo flotillas, which were ordered to attack somewhat
later, found, after penetrating the smoke cloud, that the enemy
fleet was no longer before them; nor, when the fleet commander
again brought the German squadrons upon the southerly and
southwesterly course where the enemy was last seen, could our
opponents be found. Only once more--shortly before 10.30
o'clock--did the battle flare up. For a short time in the late
twilight German battle cruisers sighted four enemy capital ships to
seaward and opened fire immediately. As the two German battleship
squadrons attacked, the enemy turned and vanished in the darkness.
Older German light cruisers of the fourth reconnoissance group
also were engaged with the older enemy armored cruisers in a short
fight.
This ended the day battle.
The German divisions, which, after losing sight of the enemy, began
a night cruise in a southerly direction, were attacked until dawn
by enemy light force in rapid succession.
The attacks were favored by the general strategic situation and the
particularly dark night.
The cruiser Frauenlob was injured severely during the engagement of
the fourth reconnoissance group with a superior cruiser force, and
was lost from sight.
One armored cruiser of the Cressy class suddenly appeared close to
a German battleship and was shot into fire after forty seconds, and
sank in four minutes.
The Florent (?) Destroyer 60, (the names were hard to decipher in
the darkness and therefore were uncertainly established) and four
destroyers--3, 78, 06, and 27--were destroyed by our fire. One
destroyer was cut in two by the ram of a German battleship. Seven
destroyers, including the G-30, were hit and severely damaged.
These, including the Tipperary and Turbulent, which after saving
survivors, were left behind in a sinking condition, drifted past
our line, some of them burning at the bow or stern.
The tracks of countless torpedoes were sighted by the German ships,
but only the Pommern (a battleship) fell an immediate victim to a
torpedo. The cruiser Rostock was hit, but remained afloat. The
cruiser Elbing was damaged by a German battleship during an
unavoidable maneuver. After vain endeavors to keep the ship afloat
the Elbing was blown up, but only after her crew had embarked on
torpedo boats. A post torpedo boat was struck by a mine laid by the
enemy.
ADMITTED LOSSES--BRITISH
NAME TONNAGE PERSONNEL
Queen Mary (battle cruiser) 27,000 1,000
Indefatigable (battle cruiser) 18,750 800
Invincible (battle cruiser) 17,250 750
Defense (armored cruiser) 14,600 755
Warrior (armored cruiser) 13,550 704
Black Prince (armored cruiser) 13,550 704
Tipperary (destroyer) 1,850 150
Turbulent (destroyer) 1,850 150
Shark (destroyer) 950 100
Sparrowhawk (destroyer) 950 100
Ardent (destroyer) 950 100
Fortune (destroyer) 950 100
Nomad (destroyer) 950 100
Nestor (destroyer) 950 100
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