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MiAmigo-19750914-1700-1800-PeterVanDam-SosCallsForMVTsunami

Die SOS-berichten, tijdens de Peter van Dam (non stop muziek?) show, waren niet alleen op Radio Mi Amigo via de 259 meter te horen, maar ook te beluisteren via de 389 meter, waar Radio Caroline met non stop muziek was te beluisteren.

"Sunday, September 14th brought a piece of excitement of the wrong type on the North Sea. Some yachts went out a-sailing; and two of them got into difficulties. Caroline lads saw one of them floating past out of control, and sent out SOS messages about it.

These broke into the recorded programmes on 259 and were simulcast on 389. "We interrupt these programmes with an emergency call from the Radio-ship Mi Amigo. We have sighted a yacht which just passed us about five minutes ago which seems to be in great difticulty because of the bad weather out here,..It was letting off flares... It’s about 7 miles South of us now.,. If any of you listening could ring up your local Coast-guards we'd appreciate it very much because these people are in dire trouble and we'd really like to help them... It didn't come close enough to us for us to help it",

The position of the Mi Amigo was given, 1 degree 35' East; 51 degrees 42•51’ North. Between 16.48 and 17.53 BST a total of 8 messages were broadcast, and within that time two yachts were rescued;

The Coast-guard helicopter that flew out from RAF Manston in Kent went first to a yacht North of the Mi Amigo, which, unknown to Caroline, was also in trouble. We understand that this yacht was the "Coronay", and the first one, which had broken her steering gear, was the "Tsunami".

At the beginning of the Radio Caroline programme that evening, warning was given to small boats not to attempt to sail out around the Mi Amigo new that the weather is so unpredictable."

(Monitor Magazine)

 

Robin

 

Die SOS-berichten, tijdens de Peter van Dam (non stop muziek?) show, waren niet alleen op Radio Mi Amigo via de 259 meter te horen, maar ook te beluisteren via de 389 meter, waar Radio Caroline met non stop muziek was te beluisteren.

"Sunday, September 14th brought a piece of excitement of the wrong type on the North Sea. Some yachts went out a-sailing; and two of them got into difficulties. Caroline lads saw one of them floating past out of control, and sent out SOS messages about it.

These broke into the recorded programmes on 259 and were simulcast on 389. "We interrupt these programmes with an emergency call from the Radio-ship Mi Amigo. We have sighted a yacht which just passed us about five minutes ago which seems to be in great difticulty because of the bad weather out here,..It was letting off flares... It’s about 7 miles South of us now.,. If any of you listening could ring up your local Coast-guards we'd appreciate it very much because these people are in dire trouble and we'd really like to help them... It didn't come close enough to us for us to help it",

The position of the Mi Amigo was given, 1 degree 35' East; 51 degrees 42•51’ North. Between 16.48 and 17.53 BST a total of 8 messages were broadcast, and within that time two yachts were rescued;

The Coast-guard helicopter that flew out from RAF Manston in Kent went first to a yacht North of the Mi Amigo, which, unknown to Caroline, was also in trouble. We understand that this yacht was the "Coronay", and the first one, which had broken her steering gear, was the "Tsunami".

At the beginning of the Radio Caroline programme that evening, warning was given to small boats not to attempt to sail out around the Mi Amigo new that the weather is so unpredictable."

(Monitor Magazine)

 

Robin

 

Ik kan me dit nog herinneren. Het was op een zondagmiddag. Hoe het afgelopen is heb ik nooit vernomen.

gr.thijs

De link is verlopen..ben ik te laat??

Hier is de file nog 'n keer.

Groeten, Gerrit