Britain's Buccaneer Broadcasters: My Story of Radio Caroline (2004)

If anyone's interested, they're actually still around as a licensed station and have been doing quite well recently. They have a cool mix of old and new where their ship's aerial actually transmits the studio's output over 4G which is relayed to a much more efficient land-based AM transmitter ironically based at a former BBC World Service site. They're on 648 kHz in south-east England, DAB in various British cities, and online.

Personally I recommend listening on a nearby SDR, it's before my time really but there's something cool about the aesthetic of crackly old MW in my opinion. This one usually has a good signal: http://grimsbysdr.ddns.net:8073/

My dad was one of the founders of Radio Hauraki, a similar pirate radio operation in New Zealand (inspired by Caroline IIRC).

Interesting to read that this story also features Roy Bates, from the Principality of Sealand

The head of music at radio Forth when it established in Edinburgh as the first commercial radio station in town was a zetlander who'd been on radio NorthSea. I think anything after that was a let-down.

Radio Caroline was a bit before my time -- anyone remember Atlantic 252? Sure sounded like crap (longwave/mono) but the music was great and you could tune in all over the UK and never lose it no matter where you drove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_252

Index of this series is at the bottom of the page. Not sure why section 6 was posted.

https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/CAR/car_all.s...