Shortly after 01:00, "Nassau" and encountered the British armored cruiser . "Thüringen" opened fire first, and pummeled "Black Prince" with a total of 27 large-caliber shells and 24 shells from her secondary battery. "Nassau" and joined in, followed by ; the combined weight of fire destroyed "Black Prince" in a tremendous explosion. The wreck of the ship was directly in the path of "Nassau"; to avoid it, the ship had to steer sharply towards III Battle Squadron. It was necessary for the ship to steam at full speed astern in order to avoid a collision with . "Nassau" then fell back into a position between the pre-dreadnoughts and . Following the return to German waters, "Nassau", "Posen", and "Westfalen", along with the "Helgoland"-class battleships and "Thüringen", took up defensive positions in the Jade roadstead for the night, while "Rheinland" refueled and rearmed. The "Nassau"-class ships suffered only a handful of secondary battery hits from the opposing Grand Fleet; "Nassau" was hit twice, "Westfalen" and "Rheinland" each once, and "Posen" escaped completely unscathed. Not a single ship of the four was struck by a heavy-caliber shell.