Scheer pressed for raids under cautious commanders

Scheer moved from the Second to the modern Third Battle Squadron and repeatedly urged operations against the British coast. He treated Ingenohl and Pohl as excessively cautious because their sorties stayed close to German territory and did not produce the isolated British force he wanted. Dogger Bank showed how easily a raid could expose the First Scouting Group, even though Ingenohl had not commanded that action in person. Beatty's signaling confusion concentrated British fire on Blücher and allowed the other German ships to escape, so the loss could easily have become much worse. Scheer nevertheless read the episode as proof that a waiting High Seas Fleet might annihilate a smaller British formation next time.