Beatty ordered his battlecruisers to make all practicable speed to catch the Germans before they could escape. "Indomitable" managed to exceed and Beatty recognized her performance with a signal at 08:55 "Well done, "Indomitable"" Despite this achievement "Indomitable" was the slowest of Beatty's ships and gradually fell behind the newer and faster battlecruisers. By 10:48 "Blücher" had been heavily damaged by fire from all the other battlecruisers and her speed had dropped to and her steering gear had been jammed; Beatty ordered "Indomitable" to attack her. But due to a combination of a mistake by Beatty's flag lieutenant in signaling and heavy damage to Beatty's flagship which had knocked out her radio and caused enough smoke to obscure her signal halyards so that Beatty couldn't communicate with his ships caused the rest of the battlecruisers to turn away from Hipper's main body and engage "Blücher". "Indomitable" fired 134 shells at "Blücher" before she capsized and sank at 12:07. After the end of the battle "Indomitable" was ordered to tow "Lion" back to port as one of her engines had been knocked out, the other was failing and she'd been hulled a number of times beneath the waterline. It took over a day and a half at speeds of .