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Another selection of photo’s, again chosen by Jelle Boonstra. Well, the seventies started much like 1960 had done: with only one ship – Veronica!\"\"<\/a>With a posh office in Hilversum.\"\"<\/a>But there was a lot to happen.\"\"<\/a>Before the new decade was one month old a new one appeared: Radio Nordsee a.k.a Radio Northsea.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This was the first photo the German audience ever saw – Nordsee in ‘pirate style’ – still in harbour at that moment.\"\"<\/a>On a cool ship – the Silvretta – a Swiss coaster…\"\"<\/a>… getting a post war dazzle painting.\"\"<\/a>And a high mast to penetrate Europe with sounds on 2-2-0 meters. \"\"<\/a>Everything was new and clean, the DJ’s (Roger Day in this case) even wore ties.\"\"<\/a>Supplied from Scheveningen, here are the Northsea-tenders in front of the Scheveningen office.\"\"<\/a>Even public broadcaster Hilversum III catched up, building a new self operating studio, here with DJ John Gerard de Cl\u00e8s, a DJ that no one heared of. Then. Or since.\"\"<\/a>And there was antother ship, that ended up at the beach in Noordwijk soon: Capital Radio.\"\"<\/a>With no money for a restart.\"\"<\/a>The ship ended up as a floating warehouse for nuts & bolts a few years later.\"\"<\/a>In march 1971 Northsea teamed up with Strengholt in Naarden, starting a Dutch service; Radio Noordzee\"\"<\/a>Studios were built in this former stable, what an an unlikely place for any<\/em> popstation.\"\"<\/a>The door, leading to the five studios.\"\"<\/a>Here with DJ Ferry Maat.\"\"<\/a>The dj staff is floating a Mebo in the pond of the Strengholt building.\"\"<\/a>John de Mol (middle) was a singer and beca me the director of the radiostation, his father (also John de Mol) was a famous orchestra leader and his son (also a John de Mol), well – we would hear of him.)\"\"<\/a>In 1971 the competition between Veronica and the new comer escalated, Veronica planted a bomb a on board the Mebo II.\"\"<\/a>Despite of the damage Northsea came back on the air, much to the relief of DJ Joost de Draaijer, Jan van Veen and Ferry Maat – at the right is managing director John de Mol.\"\"<\/a>The Daily Mirror of monday may 17th 1971
\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Veronica director Bull Verweij was arrested and was sent to prison for a year.\"\"<\/a>The Caroline ships had been rotting away in Amsterdam, the North ship was sold for scrap, but there were other plans for the Sourth ship, the Mi Amigo.\"\"<\/a>Secretly it was being fitted out again for a come back.\"\"<\/a>This is the moment she sneaked out of the harbour.\"\"<\/a>Newspaper De Telegraaf scooped how the pirate got shipshape the next day.\"\"<\/a>Back at sea, without the annoying shore in the background, they published this a black and white poster. The advantage of black and white was, you couldn’t see the rust<\/em>.\"\"<\/a>They got themself some eager young men who wanted to become a DJ.\"\"<\/a>But in effing weather they lost their aerial in november 1972\"\"<\/a> After a mutiny of Dutch crew (that hadn’t been paid) the ship ended up in Amsterdam again.\"\"<\/a>The crew gathered in the discotheque to get out again.\"\"<\/a>And indeed they did.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Building themselves a mast, to get a louder voice.\"\"<\/a>And soon the old lady found some new glory.\"\"<\/a>The mighty mast lasted just over four months.
\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>And regular programs started – here with Robin Ardcroft (a.a. Robin Banks) – till the generator exploded.
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\n\"\"<\/a>Veronica was still taping most of the output in Hilversum (here is newcomer Frans van der Beek).\"\"<\/a>And Cees Man in ’t Veld reading the hourly news bulletins aboard.
\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Despite the coming laws, new stations kept arriving, this time a Flemish one: Radio Atlantis, hiring the day-time broadcasting hours on Radio Caroline – and some of their old djs too – like Bert Bennett.\"\"<\/a>The programs were recorded in Oostburg, not far from the Belgian border, from this house at the Nieuwstraat 73 (thanks Google!)\"\"<\/a>For some reason the air staff was photographed in the hay across the street from the studio.\"\"<\/a>And even a new ship arrived: the ‘idealistic’ Radio Condor.\"\"<\/a>Studio and transmitters were primitive though and the never really made it on the air.
\n\"\"<\/a>That same month the Caroline ship lost another mast, putting Radio Atlantis off the air.\"\"<\/a>Plus their own ‘album station’ – Radio Seagull with album music through the night.\"\"<\/a>Atlantis decided to buy the Condor ship that was idle anyway and make it a proper radioship in Cuxhafen, where it was photographed by Theo Dencker.\"\"<\/a>The ship was renamed MV Jeanine and anchored off Knokke in Belgium.\"\"<\/a>An English service came live from the ship.\"\"<\/a>It was funny, it was lovely, it was professional – rather amazing, considering their very basic studio.
\n\"\"<\/a>Painted white to symbolize it’s innocense it finally sailed down south in 1973\"\"<\/a>to broadcast\u00a0 ‘a message of peace, from somewhere in the mediterranean’ (sea).\"\"<\/a>And more ships sharmed out, even the USA got one in 1973, not with pop but with upbeat sermons of ref. Carl McIntire, who could’nt get a lice ashore.\"\"<\/a>Meanwhile the REM-eiland had been rusting away in the Northsea, it was bought by Rijkswaterstaat at the start of 1973 (\u00a9 Beeldarchief Rijkswaterstaat)\"\"<\/a>It had been vandalised by visitors (\u00a9 Beeldarchief Rijkswaterstaat)\"\"<\/a>This is where the studio and the equipment were stalled (the hedge in the roof was used to lower the RCA transmitters) (\u00a9 Beeldarchief Rijkswaterstaat)\"\"<\/a>It was rehauled for 1,6 million guilders and refurnished (\u00a9 Beeldarchief Rijkswaterstaat)\"\"<\/a>The stations tried to make to best of it in the months that remained.\"\"<\/a>In Scheveningen harbour you could see the dj\u00b4s come ashore, like Daffy Don Allan (RNI), heading to his wife in England.\"\"<\/a>This was his cabin – you could tell he’d found a way to cope with the lonelyness at sea.\"\"<\/a>And yet again there was a new mast for Radio Caroline and a new lodger: Radio Mi Amigo.\"\"<\/a>This aerial should do the job for the further years of excistence.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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