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I think you're confusing Beaty's tactical defeat at the hands of Hipper's superior ships, gunnery, and better shells wreaking havoc on the Brit Battlecruisers and brittle ineffective shells...such that Beatty was overheard saying "there's something wrong with our ships today." Once out with the main weight of the Jellico portion of the fleet "lighting up his horizon" Scheer opted to leave the scene, remain off the seas rechallenge-wise; and opt for blockade by unlimited submersible warfare...at which the British excelled: lowering Germany's imports necessary to their war effort by over 50%. The greater English casualties in both long tons sunk, amended by later accounting of 3 German scuttled ships withheld to maintain homefront morale; and deaths, notwithstanding, only registered a sense of defeat primarily in nostalgia for not having replicated 1805's climatic battle of Trafalgar...for which Jellico the Cautious was, imho, unfairly replaced by Beatty! Bottom line: any naval engagement that compels your opponent to moor his High Seas fleet for the 2 years war's duration is a victory. Throwing in the added total defeat of Spee at the Falklands in the Pacific...Britainia ruled the waves.