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Battle of Jutland
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Battle of Jutland
The
Battle of Jutland
(, the Battle of
Skagerrak
) was a
naval battle
fought by the British
Royal Navy
's
Grand Fleet
under Admiral
Sir John Jellicoe
, against the
Imperial German Navy
's
High Seas Fleet
under Vice-Admiral
Reinhard Scheer
during the
First World War
. The battle was fought from 31 May to 1 June 1916 in the
North Sea
, near the coast of Denmark's
Jutland
Peninsula. It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of
battleships
in the war. It was the third
fleet action
between steel battleships, following the smaller but more decisive battles of the
Yellow Sea (1904)
and
Tsushima (1905)
during the
Russo-Japanese War
.
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