sentences:  Being significantly slower than the rest of the German line of battle, the ships of II Squadron saw no action during the first stages of the battle.Toward the end of the fleet battle on the evening of 31 May, the five "Deutschland"-class ships came to the aid of the mauled battlecruisers of I Scouting Group, when Mauve places his ships between them and their counterparts in the British Battle Cruiser Fleet.In the growing darkness, the Germans had difficulty making out their targets and failed to score any hits; the British, however, managed to hit three of the "Deutschland"s. "Pommern" was forced briefly to haul out of line.