By 23:30, the High Seas Fleet had entered its night cruising formation. The order had largely been inverted, with the four "Nassau"-class ships in the lead, followed directly by the "Helgoland"s, with the "Kaiser"s and "König"s astern of them. The rear was again brought up by the elderly pre-dreadnoughts; the mauled German battlecruisers were by this time scattered. At around midnight on 1 June, the "Helgoland"- and "Nassau"-class ships in the center of the German line came into contact with the British 4th Destroyer Flotilla. The 4th Flotilla broke off the action temporarily to regroup, but at around 01:00, unwittingly stumbled into the German dreadnoughts a second time. "Helgoland" and "Oldenburg" opened fire on the two leading British destroyers. "Helgoland" fired six salvos from her secondary guns at the destroyer "Fortune" before she succumbed to the tremendous battering. Shortly after, "Helgoland" shifted fire to an unidentified destroyer; "Helgoland" fired five salvos from her 15 cm guns to unknown effect. The British destroyers launched torpedoes at the German ships, but they managed to successfully evade them with a turn to starboard.