 Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt at Harwich was ordered to sea with his two light cruisers, and and 42 destroyers.Commodore Roger Keyes was ordered to send eight submarines and his two command destroyers, and , to take station off the island of Terschelling, to catch the German ships should they turn west into the English Channel.Jellicoe protested that although such a force should be sufficient to deal with Hipper, it would not be able to face the High Seas Fleet.