| RADIO CAROLINE |
| Radio Caroline made her first broadcast way back on Easter Saturday 1964. She broadcasted 'illegally' after the British MOA of 1967 till 1968 when she was towed into Amsterdam harbour for unpaid bills. After about three years of silence (she had a short career on board the Mebo 2 home of Radio Northsea International in 1970)Dutch free radio enthusiasts helped to buy the MI Amigo. She was secretly towed back into the North Sea outside of Dutch waters and after much toil and dedication she came back on the air in 1972 as Radio 199, later she also called herself Radio Seagull. She struggled on throughout the seventies under different guises like, Radio Mi Amigo, Radio Atlantis, and off course Radio Caroline. Her ship, now virtually a floating wreck finally gave up and sank in March 1980. In 1983 she came back with a much newer and bigger ship the Ross Revenge a 1.000 ton ex iclandic trawler it also had the tallest radio mast on a floating vessel, it was over 300ft tall. Caroline kept on going for most of the eighties until the Dutch and British Radio Regulation departments raided her in August 1989, after only a few weeks she was back on the air, unfortunately her sister station Radio 819 (who funded Caroline)didn't come back, eventually Caroline was starved out of existance, also a new Radio Bill designed to make all offshore radio illegal had been passed by the British Govt. Caroline just closed down in Nov.1990, never coming back. We can always listen to her broadcasts on cassette or for that matter via this website, there are loads and loads of airchecks I could pick, I will try and pick the best ones |
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| Here we have Mr simon Dee promoting the Caroline Club in the very early days |
| Caroline Martin on a test transmission in 1990, 26 years after the one above. |
| Caroline 'Sound of the nation' sounds really dated now, at the time really good.. |
| A mix of jingles, promos from the eighties, Caroline had a fantastic signal. |
| Here is Riki Jones in 1990 trying to keep the 'free radio flag flying'. |
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| Here are four airchecks from a most loved DJ on Caroline in the seventies. Her name was Samantha Dubois (ellen)and she had a very unorthodox style of presentation. Her music choice was always of the highest order, so she was drafted back into the DJ ranks of Caroline 319 in 1984. Unfortunately I read that she had passed on a few years ago, well here is a voice with great style playing the best stuff at that time. |
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| Brian Allen on Caroline in 84 on 963 and 576khz playing Vera Lynne, strange.... |
| A rather nervous sounding Dixie Peach Sept 83, listen to the engines humming. |
| Robin Ross (what an original name) on Caroline 319 in 1984, this guy is a pro. |
| A couple of commercials and jingles from the heyday of this famous lady. |
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| A couple of airchecks from the two outlets on the Ross in 1989, 558 and 819. |
| Now here's a real blast from the past, Caroline North broadcasting as she went along the south coast on her way to her new home near the Isle of Man in 1964. |
| Here are two snippets from late 1978, on a worsening Mi Amigo. She struggled on in the late seventies with DJs stll believing in Love Peace and Good Music. Times were really hard for the crew on board, but the music was always good. |
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| Caroline and Mi Amigo shared the same ship (until Radio Mi Amigo got her own short lived vessel) they also made some programmes together like Flashback. |
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| Caroline Sound of the Nation, that was her famous jingle in the 1960s |
| Tom Anderson welcomes listeners back to the NEW Radio Caroline in Aug 83. |
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| A FEW NEW AUDIOCHECKS JUST ADDED |
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| She had 5 million listeners here. |
| Great days when she was on 259 |
| Radio Mi Amigo and Caroline |
| A mix of Mi Amigo Jingles |