When Scheer covered a battle turn-away with smoke and torpedo attacks, Jellicoe treated losses from pressing through the threat as a mathematical certainty. He expected another chance to fight because the Germans appeared unable to reach home before the following day. Scheer instead forced a night escape, avoiding the need to repeat the maneuver a third time. The failure to stop that escape helped drive the Royal Navy's intense interwar focus on night-fighting doctrine and exercises, a direct institutional response to Jutland.
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The torpedo turn-away and Scheer's night escape
Jellicoe's mathematical reading of torpedo danger preserved the fleet but surrendered an immediate opportunity, after which Scheer escaped through the night.