Waspie
SMF Supporter
The Fleet Operational Sea Training, (FOST). Training and inspections as well as Flag Officer training hopefully has eradicated all the 'short cuts' when dealing with armaments.Spot on Dave. The next day the Grand fleet sailed on patrol, but the High seas fleet never came out again except to surrender. The grand fleet were in uncontested control of the field of battle, so were unquestionably the winners.
Jellico would have had an overwhelming victory if he had had just a little more luck. Scheer used the battle turn away tactic twice (basically his fleet was in line astern and the tactic allowed them to carry out a U turn, a manoeuvre not practiced by any other navy in the world) when Jellico crossed his T, saving his fleet from destruction. In addition, poor signals discipline meant that Jellico wasn’t told the Germans were passing a couple of hundred yards south of him during the night action. Just a couple of points turn would have had him crossing the T again, probably at dawn, which, allowing for night visibility and sunrise silhouetting the enemy fleet, would have allowed him to annihilate the German fleet, especially as he would have been between them and the safety of their home port.
I know the training we received when dealing with aircraft ordnance was very strict and another level completely when dealing with nuclear weapons!!
Hopefully we will never see incidents the like of the Hood and co ever again.