Beatty's faster force of six ships of the 1st and 2nd Battlecruiser Squadrons plus the 5th Battle Squadron of four fast battleships left the Firth of Forth on the next day; Jellicoe intended to rendezvous with him 90 miles west of the mouth of the Skagerrak off the coast of Jutland and wait for the Germans to appear or for their intentions to become clear.