The loss of Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue encouraged intense anti-submarine precautions throughout the interwar Royal Navy. Ships practised zigzagging so routinely that the response became habitual even when no submarine was likely to be nearby. Jutland supplied a second anxiety because the High Seas Fleet escaped at night, driving work on night fighting and tracking. The German fleet's ability to shelter in harbour supplied the third lesson. Naval aviation needed a way to find and strike warships in confined, shallow water rather than waiting for them to accept battle at sea.
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Three First World War lessons shaped carrier doctrine
Submarine losses, the High Seas Fleet's night escape at Jutland, and the German fleet's refuge in port drove interwar British practice.