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Radio Veronica - Radio Northsea International

In many ways the story of Radio North Sea International (RNI) and Radio Veronica is even more incredible than the Radio Caroline story..... more info on these photographs will be added soon but most of these slides were taken with a small 110 format camera and the ones at sea were taken as Radio Veronica and RNI closed down at the end of august 1974 due to the Dutch governments law banning the pirate radio stations. A few days after the law came into effect I was on board the RNI ship the Mebo 2 as she travelled through the Rotterdam canals to be refitted at Slikkerveer in preparation for sailing to broadcast off the coast of Italy as Radio Nova. I had left Radio Caroline a few days before the Dutch law came into effect and was going to work for the station in Italy but this never happened. The ship was impounded and remained in dock for several years before being bought by colonial Gadaffi and sailed to Libya where after a few years the transmitters were removed and the ship was used as target practice for the Libyan airforce and blown up! RNI also played a part in winning the UK 1970 election for the British conservative party....... more on this soon......
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31st August 1974.......... Radio North Sea International shortly before the station closed down
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31st August 1974.......... Radio North Sea International shortly before the station closed down

  • 31st August 1974.......... Radio North Sea International shortly before the station closed down
  • 31st August 1974.......... Radio North Sea International shortly before the station closed down
  • 31st August 1974.......... Radio North Sea International shortly before the station closed down
  • 31st August 1974.......... Radio Veronica a WONDERFUL Dutch Pirate station which had been on air since the early 1960's. This was taken a a few moments after the station closed down...... Their programming was audio ART....... they went off air half way through a jingle.... as if their throat had been cut....
  • 31st August 1974.......... Radio North Sea International shortly before the station closed down
  • 31st August 1974.......... Radio North Sea International shortly before the station closed down
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  • On board the MEBO 2 - Radio North Sea International. Travelling through the Rotterdam canals on the way to Slikkerveer to be refitted
  • On board the MEBO 2 - Radio North Sea International. Travelling through the Rotterdam canals on the way to Slikkerveer to be refitted
  • On board the MEBO 2 - Radio North Sea International. Travelling through the Rotterdam canals on the way to Slikkerveer to be refitted<br />
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Bob Noakes, Transmitter engineer
  • The Mebo 2 in Slikkerveer
  • The Mebo 2 in Slikkerveer...... and behind its her sister ship The Angela
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  • RNI Studio......
  • RNI Studio..... Best turntables money could buy...... EMT. The only other time I ever was EMT turntables was in the early 90's....... in a cupboard at Radio Shanghai<br />
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Bob Noakes and Elja Vendenburg RIP
  • Me in the RNI studio....... The ship was impounded and Radio Nova never happened....
  • RNI Record Library.... minus the records....... Bon Noakes, Elja Vendenburg and Yolanda Heuf
  • Dick Heuf looking into the Transmitter room...... and Bob Noakes
  • Another Station another Start....... Me and Bob Noakes...... Radio Atlantis
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