HMS Invincible (F)         Captain P.T.H. Beamish (coaling at 0750)
HMS Inflexible                Captain F. Philmore (coaling at 0750)

C-in-C South America
Rear Admiral A.P. Stoddart

HMS Caernarvon (F)            Captain H.L. de’E Skipwith  (coaled by 0750)
HMS Cornwall                       Captain  W.M. Ellerton
    Engine opened up for repairs, coaling at 0750
HMS Kent                               Captain J.D. Allen
    Coaling at 0750
HMS Bristol                            Captain B.H. Fanshawe
    Engine opened up for repairs, coaling at 0750
HMS Macedonia, AMC
    On patrol outside Stanley Harbour at 0750

Attached
HMS Glasgow                        Captain J. Luce
    Coaled by 0750
HMS Canopus                        Captain H.S. Grant
    Beached as guardship, Falklands

German Forces

East Asiatic Squadron
    Vice Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee

SMS Scharnhorst* (F)            Captain Schultz
SMS Gniesenau*                    Captain Maerker
SMS Dresden                         Captain Ludecke
SMS Leipzig*                          Captain Haun
SMS Nuremburg*                    Captain von Schonberg

Baden*, collier
Santa Maria*, collier

* Sunk

Sources:
Bennett, G., (1962): Colonel and the Falklands, 1962
Dittmar F.J., and Colledge, J.J., (1972): British Warships 1914-1919
Hoyt, E.P., (1966), Last cruise of the Emden