Battle of the Denmark Strait Beatty, likewise, felt he needed to engage German Admiral Franz Hipper's battlecruisers with his own forces instead of drawing the Germans toward Admiral John Jellicoe and the British Grand Fleet. Holland, like Beatty, possessed superiority in the number of heavy ships he possessed, yet he was encumbered by inferiority in fighting effectiveness of those units. Moreover, Holland's deployment of his units compared to Beatty's deployment at Jutland. Beatty and Holland both attacked while German units were well before the beam. As a result, the midships and after turrets of Beatty's ships could barely fire on the enemy; Holland's ships could
Night action at the Battle of Jutland ships of the second battle squadron and was seen by the rearmost battleship, "Thunderer" (Captain James Ferguson). Ferguson neither fired upon "Moltke", nor reported his sighting, because "it was considered inadvisable to show up our battlefleet". "Moltke" steered away to the west, before trying again later to turn SSE to Horns Reef. At 2255 she again sighted the British ships and turned back undetected, and then once again at 2320. Hipper then ordered "Moltke" to proceed south, so that she could pass ahead of the British fleet, which she did around 0130. "Seydlitz" was sighted at about 2400 by "Marlborough",