| NAME | TONNAGE | PERSONNEL |
| Queen Mary (battle cruiser) | 27,000 | 1,000 |
| Indefatigable (battle cruiser) | 18,750 | 800 |
| Invincible (battle cruiser) | 17,250 | 750 |
| Defense (armored cruiser) | 14,600 | 755 |
| Warrior (armored cruiser) | 13,550 | 704 |
| Black Prince (armored cruiser) | 13,550 | 704 |
| Tipperary (destroyer) | 1,850 | 150 |
| Turbulent (destroyer) | 1,850 | 150 |
| Shark (destroyer) | 950 | 100 |
| Sparrowhawk (destroyer) | 950 | 100 |
| Ardent (destroyer) | 950 | 100 |
| Fortune (destroyer) | 950 | 100 |
| Nomad (destroyer) | 950 | 100 |
| Nestor (destroyer) | 950 | 100 |
| British Totals | ||
| Battle cruisers | 63,000 | 2,550 |
| Armored cruisers | 41,700 | 2,163 |
| Destroyers | 9,400 | 900 |
| ——— | ——— | |
| Fourteen ships | 114,100 | 5,613 |
| ADMITTED LOSSES—GERMAN[A] | ||
| NAME | TONNAGE | PERSONNEL |
| Lützow (battle cruiser) | 26,600 | 1,200 |
| Pommern (battleship) | 13,200 | 729 |
| Wiesbaden (cruiser) | 5,600 | 450 |
| Frauenlob (cruiser) | 2,715 | 264 |
| Elbing (cruiser) | 5,000 | 450 |
| Rostock (cruiser) | 4,900 | 373 |
| Five destroyers | 5,000 | 500 |
| German Totals | ||
| Battle cruisers | 39,800 | 1,929 |
| Cruisers | 18,215 | 1,537 |
| Destroyers | 5,000 | 500 |
| ——— | ——— | |
| Eleven ships | 63,015 | 3,966 |
[A] These figures are given for what they are worth, but no one outside of Germany doubted but that their losses were very much greater than admitted in the official report.
| ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS | ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY |
| Commander-in-Chief of United States Naval Forces in European waters. | Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet. |
| TOTAL LOSSES OF MEN | |
| British | |
| Dead or missing | 6,104 |
| Wounded | 513 |
| ——— | |
| Total | 6,617 |
| German | |
| Dead or missing | 2,414 |
| Wounded | 449 |
| ——— | |
| Total | 2,863 |
| LOSS IN MONEY VALUE (Rough Estimate) | |
| British | $115,000,000 |
| German | 63,000,000 |
| —————— | |
| Total | $178,000,000 |
While the world was still puzzling over the conflicting reports of the Battle of Jutland came the shocking news that Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, had perished off the West Orkney Islands on June 5th, through the sinking of the British cruiser Hampshire. The entire crew was also lost, except twelve men, a warrant officer and eleven seamen, who escaped on a raft. Earl Kitchener was on his way to Russia, at the request of the Russian Government, for a consultation regarding munitions to be furnished the Russian army. He was intending to go to Archangel and visit Petrograd, and expected to be back in London by June 20th. He was accompanied by Hugh James O’Beirne, former Councillor of the British Embassy at Petrograd, O. A. Fitz-Gerald, his military secretary, Brigadier-General Ellarshaw, and Sir Frederick Donaldson, all of whom were lost.
The cause of the sinking of the Hampshire is not known. It is supposed that it struck a mine, but the tragedy very naturally brought into existence many stories which ascribe his death to more direct German action.
Where Earl Kitchener Met His Death
Seaman Rogerson, one of the survivors, describes Lord Kitchener’s last moments as follows: “Of those who left the ship, and have survived, I was the one who saw Lord Kitchener last. He went down with the ship, he did not leave her. I saw Captain Seville help his boat’s crew to clear away his galley. At the same time the Captain was calling to Lord Kitchener to come to the boat, but owing to the noise made by the wind and sea, Lord Kitchener could not hear him, I think. When the explosion occurred, Kitchener walked calmly from the Captain’s cabin, went up the ladder and on to the quarter deck. There I saw him walking quite collectedly, talking to two of the officers. All three were wearing khaki and had no overcoats on. Kitchener calmly watched the preparations for abandoning the ship, which were going on in a steady and orderly way. The crew just went to their stations, obeyed orders, and did their best to get out the boats. But it was impossible. Owing to the rough weather, no boats could be lowered. Those that were got out were smashed up at once. No boats left the ship. What people on the shore thought to be boats leaving, were rafts. Men did get into the boats as these lay in their cradles, thinking that as the ship went under the boats would float, but the ship sank by the head, and when she went she turned a somersault forward, carrying down with her all the boats and those in them. I do not think Kitchener got into a boat. When I sprang to a raft he was still on the starboard side of the quarter deck, talking with the officers. From the little time that elapsed between my leaving the ship and her sinking I feel certain Kitchener went down with her, and was on deck at the time she sank.”