Order of battle at Jutland according to current NATO practice): Other abbreviations Ships sunk during the action are indicated thus: * ; officers killed in action thus: . British Section German Section The German designations of ship types, fleets, squadrons and flotillas are given in brackets after the English designation. Order of battle at Jutland This is the complete order of battle for the Battle of Jutland fought between 31 May and 1 June 1916. The battle involved 250 warships of the British and German navies, and, in terms of combined tonnage of vessels engaged, was the largest naval battle in history. The Grand Fleet
Battle of Hamburg (1945) Battle of Hamburg (1945) The Battle of Hamburg was one of the last battles of World War II, where the remaining troops of the German 1st Parachute Army fought the British VIII Corps for the control of Hamburg, between 18 April and 3 May 1945. British troops were met with fierce resistance inside the city as Hamburg was the last significant remaining pocket of resistance in the north. Once the British had captured the city, they continued their advance north-east and sealed off the remnants of the 1st Parachute Army and Army Group Northwest in the Jutland peninsula. After the