The order came on October 24th 1918: the German fleet at the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven was to prepare for battle.
Admiral Franz von Hipper was commander of the High Seas Fleet at the time.
A couple of days earlier, he had been instructed by Reinhard Scheer, German Admiralty Staff Chief, to prepare for an attack on the British fleet.
They would set out on October 30th from Wilhelmshaven, meeting the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet in the southern North Sea before conducting a raid on the Thames and the Flander's Coast.
But on October 29th - the eve of the planned attack – sailors began to mutiny.
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