Grand Fleet standing orders explain the torpedo response

The Grand Fleet's standing orders already contained procedures for responding to and combing a torpedo attack. Those instructions give doctrinal context to Jellicoe's turn and show that the response did not have to be invented in the moment. Scheer apparently did not engage with the orders in his postwar writing despite commenting on many other aspects of the battle. Tactical judgments need both fleets' doctrine as well as their actual execution timelines. One commander's memoir cannot by itself establish what the opposing fleet intended.