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Not all the Grand Fleet was available to put to sea at any one time, because ships required maintenance and repairs. At the time of the [[battle of Jutland]] in May 2016 it had 32 dreadnought and super-dreadnought battleships. Of these 28 were in the [[Order of battle at Jutland]].
The order of battle of the Grand Fleet at the end of the war appears in the [[Naval order of 24 October 1918]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=The Admiralty |via=naval-history.net |url=http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishShips-Locations2PL1811.htm|title=The Pink List: Position and Movement of H.M. Ships, 11th November 1918 8 a.m.|accessdate=13 February 2015}}</ref>
The actual strength of the fleet varied through the war as new ships were built and others were sunk, but the numbers steadily increased as the war progressed and the margin of superiority over the German fleet progressed with it. After the United States entered the war, [[United States Battleship Division Nine (World War I)|United States Battleship Division Nine]] was attached to the Grand Fleet as the [[6th Battle Squadron (United Kingdom)|Sixth Battle Squadron]], adding four, and later five, [[dreadnought]] [[battleship]]s.<ref>Jones, p. 25</ref>
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