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Local resident
Tom
Anderson
was on board one of the original Radio Caroline ships from the
60s, the Mi Amigo, when it sank on March 20th 1980, broadcasting
until the last minute. In this video Tom, a former programme
director at Riviera Radio, recounts the dramatic events of that
fateful day and the difficult rescue by the Sheerness lifeboat in
a force 9 gale in the North Sea. Just over three years later, Tom
was the first voice on the air when
Radio
Caroline
returned from a bigger ship, the former record breaking trawler
Ross
Revenge.
In 1986 Tom joined Sunshine Radio in Antibes and later Riviera
Radio in Monaco. The new Richard Curtis movie 'The Boat That
Rocked' has rekindled interest in the offshore radio stations.
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