To extricate his fleet from this precarious position, Scheer ordered a 16-point turn to the south-west.[45] Lützow had lost speed and was unable to keep up, and so Hipper ordered his flagship to withdraw to the southwest.[46] Shortly before 20:00, Kommodore Michelson, aboard the cruiser Rostock, dispatched the torpedo boats of I Half-Flotilla to assist Lützow.