| He and Paul Scheer stole the show with their crazy cell-phone, moustached antics. |
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| Admiral Scheer quickly sank five ships and damaged several others as the convoy scattered. |
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| The British now suspended North Atlantic convoys and the Home Fleet put to sea to try to intercept Admiral Scheer. |
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| Meanwhile, Hipper had rejoined Scheer, and the combined High Seas Fleet was heading north, directly toward Jellicoe. |
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| This was the first news that Beatty and Jellicoe had that Scheer and his battle fleet were even at sea. |
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| While his battlecruisers drew the fire of the British fleet, Scheer slipped away, laying smoke screens. |
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| In reality, Scheer opted to cross Jellicoe's wake and escape via Horns Reef. |
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| At the time, Jellicoe was criticised for his caution and for allowing Scheer to escape. |
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| Scheer had ordered his cruisers and destroyers forward in a torpedo attack to cover the turning away of his battleships. |
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| On November 5, 1940, the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer encountered the convoy. |
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| The hope was that Scheer would thus be able to ambush a section of the British fleet and destroy it. |
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| The German High Seas Fleet under Scheer was also split into a main force and a separate reconnaissance force. |
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| He was replaced by Scheer, who believed that the fleet had been used too defensively, had better ships and men than the British, and ought to take the war to them. |
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| To deter a British chase, Scheer ordered a major torpedo attack by his destroyers and a potentially sacrificial charge by Scouting Group I's four remaining battlecruisers. |
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| However, Scheer seems to have quickly realised that further battles with a similar rate of attrition would exhaust the High Seas Fleet long before it reduced the Grand Fleet. |
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| The search failed and Admiral Scheer disappeared into the South Atlantic. |
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| Deploying to the west would bring his fleet closer to Scheer, gaining valuable time as dusk approached, but the Germans might arrive before the manoeuvre was complete. |
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| The Kaiserliche Marine's High Seas Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Reinhard Scheer, fought the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet, led by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. |
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