Order of Battle
Scarborough Raid
16 December 1914
Contributed by David Alton

German Forces

Raiding Force
   Rear Admiral Hipper

1st. SG
Seydlitz (F)
Moltke
Derfflinger
Von der Tann
Blucher

2nd SG
Stralsund
Graudenz
Kolberg
Strassburg
1st TBF
9th TBF
(18 total torpedo boats, 1st TBF consisted of boats from the V186/G192 classes, 9th of the V25/S30 classes)

Battle Fleet
   Admiral von Ingenhohl

Friedrich der Grosse (FF)

1st BS
Ostfriesland (F)
Helgoland
Thuringen
Oldenburg
Posen (2nd F)
Westfalen
Rheinland
Nassau

2nd BS
Preussen (F)
Hessen
Lothringen
Deutschland
Hannover (2nd F)
Pommern
Schleswig-Holstein
Schlesien

3rd BS
Prinzregent Luitpold (F)
Kaiser
Kaiserin
Konig Albert
Grosser Kurf

3rd SG
Roon (F)  KA von Reubeur-Paschwitz
Prinz Heinrich

4th SG
Munchen (F)   Komm. von Restorff
Stuttgart
Danzig
Stettin
Frauenlob
attached Hamburg (Leader of U-Boats Kvk Bauer)

Rostock (Leader of Torpedo Boats, Komm. Hartog)
2nd TBF
5th TBF
6th TBF
7th TBF
8th TBF
(54 total Torpedo Boats, 2nd TBF S138 class, 5th V1/G7 classes, 6th V150 class, 7th S13 class, 8th G174/S176/V180 classes)


RN  Forces
    V A Warrender on KGV

2nd BS
KGV (F) VA Warrender
Ajax
Centurion
Orion (2nd F) RA Arbuthnot
Monarch
Conqueror

BCF
Lion (F) VA Beatty
Queen Mary
Tiger
New Zealand.

1st LCS
Southampton (F) Comm Goodenough
Birmingham
Falmouth
Nottingham.

3rd CS
Antrim (F) RA Pakenham
Argyll
Devonshire
Roxburgh.

4th DF (partial)
Lynx
Ambuscade
Unity
Hardy
Shark
Acasta
Spitfire

(CL Blanche and Boadicea had returned to Scapa due to bad weather in the Pentlands)

Hartlepool Local Defence Forces

CL Forward
CL Patrol

9th DF (partial)
Doon
Waverney
Test
Moy

The Harwich Force of 4 CL and  25+DE was to be off Great Yarmouth at 0630 (approx 140m S of the above forces).
 



Sources

Goldrick, "The Kings Ships Were At Sea"
Corbett, "Naval Operations Volume 2"
Scheer, "The High Seas Fleet in the World War:
Marder, "Dreadnought to Scapa Flow Volume 2"

German details confirmed by Thomas Pflueger.
 
The other points are about the Operation Albion OOB, in the 3rd BS Vizeadmiral Behncke's flagship was Konig, Kommodore Seiferling was on Markgraf and in the 4th BS Vizeadmiral Souchon was on Friedrich der Grosse and Kommodore Meurer on Kaiser.