 By the time of the Battle of Jutland the leader was the , with "Ardent", "Fortune", "Shark" and "Sparrowhawk" lost in the course of the battle and "Acasta" was so badly damaged that she had to be practically rebuilt.After Jutland the remainder of the flotilla moved to the Humber and then to Portsmouth by the end of 1916, before dispersing, some ships to the 6th Destroyer Flotilla and the Dover Patrol and the remainder to Devonport.All survivors of the war were sold out of service for scrapping by 1921.