Jellicoe was the right person for the job. He knew that his first priority was to keep his ships intact. He scared off the High Seas Fleet to rarely ever sortie out of its base again, and his final victory was when the High Seas Fleet surrendered at Scapa Flow. I think Jellicoe was disadvantaged by his tight inflexible command system, but although that affected the course of the battle, it didn't affect the course of the war. Also, the British AP shells were ineffective at piercing the German armour. As Sindher stated, the German Fleet was badly mauled in the encouter while the main British battleships were undamaged.
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