![]() The Kaiser’s fleet never offered itself up for significant battle again and it was within the fleet that the revolution that toppled his dynasty began. ![]() But Vice-Admiral Scheer’s luck held and the Germans escaped. The reality is the German plan completely failed and there were moments when things could have gone calamitously wrong for them if the British had been in better positions. The Germans were desperate to alleviate the effects of the British blockade of their ports and the chance to win a degree of parity with the much bigger enemy fleet was obviously very desirable. The fact is the Royal Navy lost more ships and men than the Germans whose intention was to lure the British battlecruisers to their destruction at the hands of the High Seas fleet before the full might of the Jellicoe’s Grand Fleet could intervene. ![]() The results of the two day battle that began on 31st May 1916 are debated to this day. A hundred years ago the greatest naval battle of the First World War took place when the British and German fleets clashed in the North Sea at Jutland. ![]()
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