British shell and detonator quality control left many hits less effective than they should have been, prompting the post-Jutland Greenboy programme. Introducing comparable shell technology around 1913 is proposed as a way to make British wartime ammunition much more destructive. A separate problem was the pursuit of rapid fire at the expense of accuracy and fire-control training. Better gunnery discipline is estimated to have saved at least one British battlecruiser, deliberately left unnamed out of consideration for the families of those who died. Together, improved shells and gunnery practice are estimated to have cost Germany another three or four ships.
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Jutland: better shells and gunnery discipline
Better shell quality and more attention to accurate gunnery are proposed as ways to change the losses at Jutland.