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Het droogdokken van the Ross Revenge op korte termijn lijkt op het eerste gezicht een recht toe recht aan operatie....totdat je de inhoud van deze uitstekende website volledig doorneemt. Zeer goed gedocumenteerd , boordevol veel informatie mbt het schip als schip, niet als radiozendschip. Foto's Ross in the Good Old Days in 1989 12 miles off Ramsgate en hedentendage in the River Blackwater. Foto's RCclck archives. https://www.rossrevengeofficial.com/#home.html Paul de Haan

'' Following the grounding of the mv Mi Amigo in January 1966, Radio Caroline South was silent. Fortunately no one had been hurt in the incident but the ship needed a thorough overhaul. She was taken to Holland for this very necessary work. It looked as if the station was going to be off the air for quite some time, when, out of the blue, came the offer of a replacement ship. This unexpected gesture came from Mrs. Britt Wadner, owner of the Swedish Radio Syd. Her ship was currently off the air because of pack ice in the sea around the station's normal anchorage. The ship was languishing, silent, off the Dutch coast. Not surprisingly, the Radio Caroline directors jumped at the offer. At the time, for some reason, it was reported that the vessel was being lent free of charge. In fact rent of around £700 a week was paid. Radio Syd's ship, the Cheeta II, set sail for England and took up the Mi Amigo's position off the coast. Radio Syd normally broadcast to Sweden on VHF-FM. This waveband was not widely used in Britain at the time so one of the Mi Amigo's 10 kilowatt medium wave transmitters was brought back from Holland on a tender and installed by the engineering staff. They also rigged a temporary aerial for the AM signal. DJ Colin Nicol was sent out to the ship to help get the studio set up in the way that the Caroline jocks were used to. On 12th February 1966, after a break of less than a month, Caroline South was back on the air, although at a lower power than usual.'' https://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/odds31.htm