Radio One - The Pirate Graveyard (& others)

2/7/2026

James McGregor

3/7/2026 01:16:44 am

Janice Long wanted to be. Terry was established and Andy missed the boat

Apart from that it's an interesting take that R1 was the pirates graveyard, rather than the resurrection and eternal life in Offshore Echoes and Court reports

James McGregor

3/7/2026 01:32:42 am

Correction of my mistake - It was Annie Nightingale not Janice Long who wanted to be on Caroline in 67-8. There was a bit about it in SAGA magazine or something like that years ago and she did not get hired because they did not like girls or something. Obviously before the Moorish times. Hey it's Wimbledon - how's it going Peter? Apart from that quite a funeral reminder of the departed. Thanks for cheering us up with that Mike. Of course we remember !!!

North Sea Raid

3/7/2026 06:16:41 pm

I have asked this question last year or before then under another name, but turning the official Caroline Calendar to July [3 days late] sparked the of mine August 19 question off again

If the point blank statement the day before was - you are under siege - you have no registration - your SW crap is on the wrong channel and your Dutch mates are peeing every smuggler off - shut down now or there will be consequences - say hello to Amsterdam again

Would not the sensible thing to have done a brief annulment a bit like September 1990 - a concise statement saying that RC wishes nothing but LP&GM and has done since 1964 and seeks no international illegality or confrontation so to clarify our right to be here and be free we are now temporary closing down transmissions and seeking verification of our rights to continue from international waters - we love you etc

This would have??? saved the ship, equipment, a lot of aggro???

Or maybe it would have been just boarded and wrecked , towed away in silence anyway??

I don't know, and no one else seems to have an opinion on this apart from the standard SW3 PM view - we were in international waters so you were horrible and wrong

If PC taking charge of the situation in his rubber had composed a short brief and succinct close down announcement the night before - or the instruction had been mobile phoned in from shore - The Dutch would have left the Volans with it's engines running??

Maybe if not interested in English - run out of insufficient Viewpoint income anyway - but the huge damage would not have been done?

I just think Mr SW3 thought just sod it and keep going - told PC to do that - and that was the state that resolved in

Obviously no one is interested in this except for next month when around 19 8 their will be an outpouring of indignation on the 2 other main boards saying how horrible this all was

But could it have turned out differently

Redemption has been made with Martin Rohm PPT and JIm Murphy DTI

Why was the decision made not to have a pause and evaluate the situation but just plough on through it?

558 Fan

5/7/2026 05:37:24 pm

Hi,
I think the raid would have gone ahead, even if the Radio Caroline organisation had known days in advance that a raid was on the horizon, and had switched off the ship's transmitters at the same time - days before the raid.
I believe a raid on the Ross had been planned to take place a couple of years earlier, but did not go ahead after the 300 ft mast collapsed. Maybe the authorities should have finished off the station then. NOT that I wanted anything like that to happen because, to my ears, Caroline 558 between 1987-1990 sounded superb.

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