The comparison starts from 21 German dreadnought-type capital ships against 37 British ones at Jutland, with further British strength completing or held back. Once those additional British ships are considered, Germany would have needed to sink about 25 capital ships without losing one of its own merely to approach numerical equality. Lützow’s near-return to port cannot be credited only to construction quality because the endurance and labour of her crew also mattered. Any German loss worsened the arithmetic because Bayern and Baden had little comparable construction behind them. An outnumbered fleet could not assume that one battle would erase a long-built industrial advantage.
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Why a tactical win could not create parity
A huge British capital-ship margin meant Germany would need extraordinary losses without comparable damage to approach parity.