_Superb._--Flagship of Rear-Admiral A. L. Duff, Rear-Admiral in the 4th Battle Squadron. _Benbow._--Flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee, Commanding the 4th Battle Squadron. _Colossus._--Flagship of Rear-Admiral E. F. A. Gaunt, Rear-Admiral in the 1st Battle Squadron. _Marlborough._--Flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney, Commanding 1st Battle Squadron and second in command of the Grand Fleet. The Battle Cruiser Fleet and 5th Battle Squadron, with destroyers, were at 2 P.M. in Lat. 56.46 N., Long. 4.40 E., and had turned to the northward, steering N. by E., speed 19½ knots, in the order: The _Lion_ and 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron in single line ahead, screened by the light cruiser _Champion_ and 10 destroyers of the 13th Flotilla, with the 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron in single line ahead three miles E.N.E. of the _Lion_, screened by six destroyers.[I] The 5th Battle Squadron, in single line ahead, was five miles N.N.W. of the _Lion_, being screened by the light cruiser _Fearless_ and nine destroyers of the 1st Flotilla. The Light Cruiser Squadrons formed a screen eight miles S.S.E. from the _Lion_, ships spread on a line of direction E.N.E. and W.S.W., five miles apart in the order from west to east: 2nd Light Cruiser 3rd Light Cruiser 1st Light Cruiser Squadron Squadron Squadron _Southampton_ (F.) _Nottingham_ _Falmouth_ (F.) _Birkenhead_ _Inconstant_ _Galatea_ (F.) _Birmingham_ _Dublin_ _Gloucester_ _Cordelia_ _Phaeton_ [I] These destroyers belonged to the Harwich force, but happened to be at Rosyth. It should be added that the flagships were: _Lion._--Battle Cruiser Fleet-Flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty. _Princess Royal._--Flagship of Rear-Admiral O. de B. Brock, commanding 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron. _New Zealand._--Flagship of Rear-Admiral W. Pakenham, commanding 2nd Battle Cruiser Squadron. _Barham._--Flagship of Rear-Admiral H. Evan-Thomas, commanding 5th Battle Squadron. The _Engadine_, a sea-plane carrier, was stationed between the light cruisers _Gloucester_ and _Cordelia_, and the light cruiser _Yarmouth_ acted as linking ship between the _Lion_ and the light cruiser screen. The first report of enemy vessels was received from the _Galatea_, the flagship of Commodore E. S. Alexander-Sinclair, commanding the 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, who, at 2.20 P.M., sighted two enemy vessels to the E.S.E. apparently stopped and engaged in boarding a neutral steamer. Sir David Beatty, recognising the possibilities of the situation, immediately turned his fleet to the S.S.E., the course for the Horn Reef, so as to get between the enemy and his base.