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A Great War 'Battle of Jutland' Bronze Memorial Plaque to Leading Stoker J. Luck of H.M.S. Defence, Royal Navy (John Luck)/5286 Leading Stoker J. Luck was killed in action at the Battle of Jutland on the 31st of May 1916, he is Remembered with Honour at the Plymouth Naval Memorial, Panel 15. A Great War 'Battle of Jutland' Bronze Memorial Plaque to Mechanician A. C. Ryan of H.M.S. Defence, Royal Navy (Alexander Copeland Coutts Ryan) Mechanician A. C. Ryan was killed in action at the Battle of Jutland on the 31st of May 1916, Son of James and Willimena Ryan; Husband of Eliza Ryan of 33 Pemberton Street, Witham, Hull, he is Remembered with Honour at the Chatham Naval Memorial, Panel 17, (2). H.M.S. Defence was sunk on the 31st of May 1916 during the Battle of Jutland, the largest Naval engagement of the Great War. Escorting the main body of the Grand Fleet, the Minotaur-class armoured cruiser was fired upon by one of the German battlecruisers and four dreadnoughts as she attempted to engage a German light cruiser. She was struck by two salvoes from the German ships that detonated her rear magazine. The fire from the explosion spread to the ship's secondary magazine, the ship exploded at 6:20 with the loss of all 900 of her crew.the time, it was believed that the Defence had been reduced to fragments by the explosion, but the wreck was discovered in 2001 by a diving team and found to be largely intact, despite the incredible violence of her sinking. Defence, along with other Jutland wrecks, was belatedly declared a protected place under the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986, to discourage further damage to the final resting place of her 900 men.