Mellum formed as an island off the end of the Butjadingen peninsula – which divides the outflows into the Wadden Sea of the Jade and Weser rivers – only at the end of the nineteenth century.
At 16:30 on 2 November 1914, the battlecruiser squadron left its home base on the Jade River.
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