Radio Caroline – The Broadcasting Fleet

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Fifty years ago this week, a 35-year-old former passenger ferry was being secretly equipped with a 165-foot radio mast in the privately-owned Irish port of Greenore. The historic Ballymascanlon Hotel in nearby Dundalk was crowded out with strangers who spent their days mysteriously working at the port, which had been virtually disused for years.

It started with a welcome, a frequency number and a track by the Rolling Stones (Not Fade Away). Radio Caroline launched 50 years ago from a ship moored off the Essex coast. But it was a swashbuckling Irishman Ronan O’Rahilly along with a Swedish engineer who made it all possible and changed not just Radio but the whole field of broadcasting, advertising and today Social Media. All this was strictly illegal at the time but Radio Caroline operated outside UK territorial waters and literally outside the law. It operated Radio Caroline South off the coast of Essex and Radio Caroline North off the Isle of Man but both had their origin in the Irish Port of Greenore which was owned by Dubliner O’Rahilly’s family. Selengkapnya

Radio Caroline footage - 1960s

 

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