At 2 P.M. on May 31st the Battle Fleet was about 18 miles to the north-westward of the position (A), being actually in Lat. 57.57 N., Long. 3.45 E., in organisation No. 5. The Fleet had been slightly delayed for the purpose of enabling the usual and necessary practice of examining trawlers and other vessels met with _en route_ to be carried out without causing the examining vessels to expend unnecessary fuel in regaining station. We had to be on our guard against scouts. The divisions were in line ahead disposed abeam to starboard in the order: 1st–6th Divisions (screened by the 4th, 11th, and 12th Flotillas) with the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron, three miles ahead of the Battle Fleet. The cruisers, with one destroyer to each cruiser, were stationed 16 miles ahead of the Battle Fleet, spread six miles apart on a line of direction N. 40 E. and S. 40 W.; the cruisers being eight miles apart and their positions being in the order from east to west: (F.) (F.) _Cochrane_ _Shannon_ _Minotaur_ _Defence_ _Duke of Edinburgh_ _Black Prince_ . . . . . _Warrior_ . . _Hampshire_ (linking ship 6 miles astern of the _Minotaur_) The attached cruisers, the _Active_, _Boadicea_, _Blanche_, and _Bellona_, were on the flanks of the Battle Fleet, and the 3rd Battle Cruiser Squadron, with the light cruisers _Chester_ and _Canterbury_, about 20 miles ahead, the whole steering S. 50 E., and zigzagging, the speed of _advance_ being 14 knots. The disposition of the Battle Fleet is shown below: Line of Advance. ^ | | 1st Div. 2nd Div. 3rd Div. 4th Div. 5th Div. 6th Div. _King George V._(F.) _Orion_ (F.) _Iron Duke_ (F.F.) _Benbow_ (F.) _Colossus_ (F.) _Marlborough_ (F.) _Ajax_ _Monarch_ _Royal Oak_ _Bellerophon_ _Collingwood_ _Revenge_ _Centurion_ _Conqueror_ _Superb_ (F.) _Temeraire_ _Neptune_ _Hercules_ _Erin_ _Thunderer_ _Canada_ _Vanguard_ _St. Vincent_ _Agincourt_ F., Flagships; F.F., Fleet Flagship. It may be added in further explanation that the flagships of the Battle Fleet were: _Iron Duke_, Fleet-Flagship.--Flag of Admiral Sir John Jellicoe (Commander-in-Chief). _King George V._--Flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir M. Jerram, Commanding 2nd Battle Squadron. _Orion._--Flagship of Rear-Admiral A. C. Leveson, Rear-Admiral in the 2nd Battle Squadron.