Detaching a badly damaged ship in Admiral's Mode

[jhs]

Princess Royal is pretty much shot to blazes: six 13.5s gone, superstructure wrecked, 20 knots, badly on fire, and 75% damage. I am playing in Admiral's Mode. I want to detach her before she is sunk, and she is slowing her division. I don't understand how I detach her. 

Help!


IGNORE THE ABOVE: I forgot about 21:0 Force Orders. I was able to detach Princess Royal with no trouble.

I do have one question. Right before I detached her, she and Lion both went to Independent mode. Lion had "only" 40% damage, full speed capability and six of her 13.5s operable. I could no longer give orders to the force flagship, Lion. What happened? Was L forced to escort PR? After I detached PR I was able to attach Lion to the new force flagship, New Zealand---everything was OK. Why couldn't L remain the flagship? 

[julianbarker]

What does Lion's log show?

[jhs]

Since I was just using this as a first play learning experiment, I deleted the info when I finished the scenario. I didn't think of checking the log at the time. Whoops. 

[jhs]

Pardon me, I blundered. I thought you meant the post-game recap information. I did check the Lion's individual log during the game. There was nothing about why it ceased being the flagship.

[julianbarker]

No conning tower hit or other hit causing sudden loss of speed or or rudder jam at the relevant time?

A screenshot of the log may help.

[jhs]

Deleted, unfortunately. Very likely I scanned the log too fast and missed the reason why.

[vonfriedman]

I noticed in RJW that it seems impossible to detatch a DD flotilla that need to refuel. This was done almost automatically in Thunder At Sea (TAS) and it seemed to me a good feature of that game.