At 10:48, Beatty ordered "Indomitable" to attack her, but the combination of a signalling error by Beatty's flag lieutenant and heavy damage to Beatty's flagship "Lion", which had knocked out her radio and caused enough smoke to obscure her signal halyards, caused the rest of the British battlecruisers, temporarily under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Gordon Moore in "New Zealand", to think that that signal applied to them.