increase the distance to their pursuers. At this time, Lions last operational dynamo failed, which dropped her speed to . Beatty, in the stricken Lion, ordered the remaining battlecruisers to "Engage the enemy's rear," but signal confusion caused the ships to solely target , allowing , , and to escape. By the time Beatty regained control over his ships, after having boarded Princess Royal, the German ships had increased their lead to a distance too great for the British to reengage; at 13:50, he broke off the chase. was repaired at the (Imperial Shipyard) in Wilhelmshaven from 25 January to 31 March 1915, after which she rejoined the fleet. Battle of the Gulf of Riga On 3 August 1915, , , and were transferred to the Baltic with I Reconnaissance Group (AG) to participate in a planned foray into the Riga Gulf. The intention was to destroy the Russian naval forces in the area, including the pre-dreadnought , and to use the minelayer to block the entrance to Moon Sound with naval mines. The German forces, under the command of Hipper, included the four and four s, the battlecruisers , , and , and a number of smaller craft. Throughout the operation, and the other two battlecruisers remained in the Baltic and provided cover for the assault into the Gulf of Riga. Following the operation, and the other heavy units of the High Seas Fleet returned to the North Sea. On 11–12 September, and the rest of I Scouting Group covered a minefield laying operation off Terschelling. On 24 November, the ship ran aground in the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, but was quickly refloated. On 4 December, while exiting the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, became entangled in one of the net barriers. Divers had to remove the tangled nets from the starboard screws. Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft On 24–25 April 1916, I Scouting Group undertook another operation to bombard the English coast, this time, the towns of Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Hipper was on sick leave, so the German ships were under the command of Friedrich Boedicker, who flew his flag in . The German battlecruisers , , , and left the Jade Estuary at 10:55 on 24 April, and were supported by a screening force of 6 light cruisers and two torpedo boat flotillas. The heavy units of the High Seas Fleet sailed at 13:40, with the objective to provide distant