HMS Nereide or HMS Milbrook

A number of Royal Navy service records for ratings administered by the Depot ship identified in the table below show two (sometimes three) destroyer names across the dates of the Battle of Jutland. Further research is to be conducted relating to the history and programmes of the relevant destroyers in order to seek to understand whether each man was serving in a Jutland ship. Ships shown with links were at Jutland. Ratings impacted by these ships have been given a status of B (blue) on the Battle of Jutland Crew Lists project.

HMS Nereide was an Acorn-class destroyer with the 2nd DF (Depot Ship: HMS Blake) from April 1912 until November 1915 when she was detached to HMS Vivid (Devonport). She remained in Devonport until December 1916 when she joined the Adriatic Squadron.

HMS Milbrook was completed in October 1915 and joined the 11th DF (depot ship: HMS Blake) in the same month.

Ratings whose record shows Blake (Nereide/Milbrook) are therefore thought to have transferred to the latter in about Oct 1915 and would therefore have been present at Jutland in HMS Milbrook.