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Wilhelmshaven mutiny
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Kiel mutiny.
Wilhelmshaven mutiny
When word of the planned battle reached the sailors, some of the men on the ships at anchor in the Schillig Roads off Wilhelmshaven refused to put their lives at risk for a "death voyage" that they saw as militarily pointless. During the night of 30 to 31 October 1918, sailors on board a number of ships from III Battle Squadron declined to weigh anchor. Incidents of insubordination occurred aboard the dreadnoughts Thüringen, SMS Kaiserin and SMS Helgoland, with outright mutiny on Thüringen and Helgoland.