ARLA/CLUSTER: Radio Caroline

[Salomao Fresco]

Olá a Todos!

Mais infos em:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline

A Radio Caroline começou (e continuou) por ser um desafio às fleumáticas
rádios oficiais britânicas que se recusavam a passar determinados estilos e
géneros musicais, tais como o Rock e a Pop, rotulando-os como decadentes e
subservivos.
Quantos de nós não se lembram destes mesmos epitetos aplicados às mesmas
situações cá no rectângulo durante a década de sessenta e parte da de
setenta?
A Caroline sobreviveu sempre à custa dos esforços de centenas senão milhares
de ouvintes que contribuiam de forma anónima para que as embarcações
recebessem mantimentos e combustivel.
A Caroline foi sempre uma rádio de vanguarda difundindo o que de mais
recente se produzia na música a nível mundial.

Vale a pena visitar o link oficial e acompanhar a história desta Estação que
apesar de considerada "pirata" por muitos países conseguiu sobreviver mais
de 40 anos.

Cumprimentos

Salomão Fresco
CT2IRJ



On 9/25/06, Tiago Santos <ct2hcq  gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ouvi um colega contar uma historia de uma radio que custumava ouvir em
> onda
> curta, em que a emissão para a inglaterra era feita a partir de um barco
> em
> aguas internacionais. Este colega e amigo financiou a radio durante 20
> anos
> para que fosse possivel continuar em emissão. Aqui vai a historia e o link
> no final para lerem mais se quiserem. Vão ainda umas fotos dos barcos onde
> operaram.     August 19th, the day the music (almost) died.
> In 1967 a law had been passed, attempting to silence the station, but this
> law was not regularly or strenuously applied.
>
> Certainly, in the early days, some over zealous officials did prosecute
> supporters for wearing Radio Caroline T shirts. A tender, bringing staff
> ashore, was intercepted and DJs were taken to court, but presenter Johnny
> Jason pleaded not quilty and the case collapsed. One boatman, Howard Beer
> was sentenced to a year in prison for supplying fuel to the Ross Revenge.
>
> However, for the most part there was a truce as staff and goods were taken
> out from UK ports and officials either did not know or chose not to
> notice.
> A broad view formed within Caroline that the station was almost accepted
> by
> the establishment, with the law still being in place to prevent Caroline
> getting too complacent or cheeky.
>
> Of course, the factor that allowed all Radio Ships to function was that
> they
> were in International Waters, where the laws of the surrounding states did
> not apply and where their officials had no powers. Therefore while
> governments could pass any law they wished, all were confident that they
> could never act directly against the ships or the broadcasts coming from
> them.
>
> In late summer 1989 though, staff on the Ross Revenge began to notice that
> they were getting more attention than normal from official and Naval
> vessels. Then, on August 18th 1989, the chartered launch Landward drew
> close
> to Ross Revenge and on board were members of the Dutch and UK Radio
> Authorities. They attempted to negotiate with the crew to switch off the
> various radio signals coming from the ship. This of course was refused.
>
> What the crew did not know was that early that day, many arrests had been
> made in Holland of people who were thought to be working for Radio
> Caroline
> or her sister station on board, the Dutch language station Radio 819. The
> major amount of the required supplies for the ship came from Holland,
> Belgium and France and now this lifeline was cut.
>
> In the UK, no land staff were arrested, but calls were made inviting them
> to
> give themselves up. Again, these offers were refused. The people on the
> Landward, while becoming ever more insistent, still took great care not to
> attempt to board Ross Revenge or even to let the two vessels touch.
>
> What was thought then, with the information available at the time, was
> that
> perhaps a blockade was intended, but the Landward was not a big ship, it
> could not remain on station for long or at all, in bad weather. The crew
> thought that they just had to stand firm since the action could not be
> escalated beyond what had already happened, but the officials warned that
> non compliance would cause them to use more extreme methods.
>
> In the early afternoon of the 19th, the Landward moved away from Ross
> Revenge, but then a massive Dutch vessel, the Volans appeared and quickly
> came alongside the radio ship without permission and without announcing
> their intentions, other than to suggest that they wanted to take
> photographs. Armed men from the Volans boarded the radio ship by force and
> in considerable numbers. In a very short time the ship was under their
> control, but since it took a while to storm the studios and silence the
> transmitters, dramatic broadcasts continued for about twenty minutes.
>
> Thereafter, the boarders stripped the vessel of all broadcast equipment or
> smashed items that were too large to remove. By the end of the afternoon
> the
> Ross Revenge was, in broadcast terms, just a shell as all her records,
> studios and transmitters were swung on to the Volans to be taken to
> Holland.
>
> British officials came on board, even though their presence was denied by
> the UK government and they attempted to interrogate staff under threat of
> arrest.
>
> In the early evening Caroline's own tender arrived, carrying members of
> the
> press and on the arrival of this vessel all boarders on both ships ceased
> their actions and departed, leaving the disabled Ross Revenge with her
> crew
> still on board.
>
> The repercussions from this unsatisfactory day were widespread. In the
> short
> term, the Radio 819 operation that had provided so much required material
> on
> the ship, was destroyed and never reformed. The crew, with great defiance,
> began to rebuild what they could and indeed a signal issued from the Ross
> Revenge only weeks after the raid.
>
> The legality of the whole operation was soon challenged. Being in
> International Waters, none of the boarders had any official powers, to
> board, confiscate or interrogate and they achieved their aims mainly by
> bluff and force of numbers and of course by being armed, in the case of
> the
> Dutch.
>
> In real terms, the raid crippled Radio Caroline. A spirited and expensive
> legal action was started by Caroline against the UK government, but was
> not
> successful. On the ship, conditions deteriorated until broadcasts could no
> longer be made and finally Ross Revenge was shipwrecked on the Goodwin
> Sands
> and brought in to Dover Harbour in a ruined condition.
>
> This was very nearly the end of the Radio Caroline story had not a few
> individuals banded together to see if anything at all could be rescued
> from
> the disaster. This commenced a very slow path to recovery and the
> emergence
> of a very different incarnation of Caroline.
>
> In summary, it does seem that in our case and no doubt in many other
> instances, governments will do anything they wish in order to achieve
> their
> required result even to the extent of breaking the law when they know they
> can do so with impunity.
>
> In human terms, the British Policeman in charge of the UK side of the
> action, Jim Murphy, later became a good friend to Radio Caroline. In the
> same way, Marten Roumen, the unusual Dutch Policeman heading the raid on
> behalf of the Netherlands, later went to great pains to return every
> single
> item taken from the ship on that unfortunate day. It can be assumed that
> on
> a personal level both men later regretted what they had done to a harmless
> organisation doing nothing other than providing pleasure and
> entertainment.
> Our History section on this site provides additional information.
>
> If you are moved by the events of August 19th 1989, we invite you to join
> our Supporters Club <http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/supportgroup.asp>, to
> help continue our recovery and expansion.
>
> Peter Moore,
> August 2006
>
>
>
> --
> Tiago Santos
> CT2HCQ Setúbal Portugal
>
>
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Salomão Fresco
CT2IRJ

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