Radio Ship On Fire! - the FULL broadcast of RNI

Radio Ship On Fire! - the FULL broadcast of RNI - '71

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14 жыл бұрын

I once MET Alan West. Of course, I asked him about that fateful night and he said he couldn't remember a thing. I said, "Right, I understand. You must get fed up being asked..." He said, "No, really. I LITERALLY can't remember it. My mind has blocked it out. I listen to the recording and it's like it's someone else." Hell of a thing. The theme he is playing is also on this channel (in clear) at • RNI theme - Radio Nort...

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@oldgitsknowstuff 3 жыл бұрын

I remember listening to this lIVE. Mayday Mayday Mayday..we are on fire. AND THEY STILL PLAYED THE MUSIC. Respects.....

@MiniMicroMan1 5 жыл бұрын

Yes like others I also remember listening to this live. I loved RNI and this was a very sad day. This brings back a lot of memories.

@avabethmcghee3048 9 жыл бұрын

This was probably the most surreal thing I've ever, ever heard.

@Sheffield_Steve 4 жыл бұрын

I had heard about this on a BBC Radio 2 documentary called The Story of Pop Radio, hosted by Noel Edmonds. He said that it was probably the 1st time an S.O.S message had a backing track. Really, surreal to hear in full though. Interesting what your mind can do to erase from memory to help you dealing with the shock, trauma, etc. To think that Alan West doesn't remember it at all! Wow!

@coling6750 Ай бұрын

I actually remember this, I was listening to this from my bedroom in Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. I actually got my Mum & Dad to call the police and I remember them arriving and listening to the SOS messages from a small transistor radio I had turned up to full volume in the Hall. Seem to remember them contacting the coast guard and then disappearing. I taped hours and hours of their transmissions, sure they are in the loft somewhere 🤣🤣🤣

@NewZman23 10 жыл бұрын

Nice to hear this theme on You Tube. Brings back some great memories. I have 2 LP records with Pirate radio recordings. Listening to the pirates when i was living in London in the 1970s was exciting. I remember going on protest marches to Trafalgar Sq demanding "Free radio" from Harold Wilson's government. We used the theme tune from Dad's Army but with the words "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Wilson, if you think free radio's down". We also had radio pirates in New Zealand in the mid 1960s and a film of the first kiwi Pirate Radio station, Radio Hauraki has just hit cinema screens in NZ and the USA called "Three Mile Limit". Radio Hauraki's ship was called the MV Tiri - it got into trouble in a storm once and they also had to send out a mayday signals as the ship was wrecked on some rocks. But Hauraki soon bounced back on the airwaves with the Tiri ll and they still broadcast today (legally) over a national FM network throughout NZ. I'm looking forward to seeing the movie this week: 3 MILE LIMIT Teaser Trailer

@morpheusatloppers 10 жыл бұрын

Have you seen "The Boat That Rocked"? (US title: "Pirate Radio") - great film.

@NewZman23 10 жыл бұрын

morpheusatloppers yes good movie.

@burkeshaw 5 жыл бұрын

It's funny! I used to live in Goose Bay Labrador Canada when it was "Goose Airbase" a U.S. SAC airforce base. We were given military issue multi-band radios and I remember hooking ours up on our t.v. antenna (we had A.F.R.T.S. t.v. programming) and playing radio roulette! I had heard of the pirate stations in Europe, but was never able to find them. Heard a LOT of South American Spanish and of course Voice Of America but A.M. seemed to hold most of my interest. Goose Bay was an excellent area for "skip" so I would hear the latest in Rock and Roll from stations like W K B W out of Buffalo N.Y. You talked about European and New Zealand pirates, I suggest there were Mexican stations like Wolfman Jack's X E R B out of Rosarito Beach Baja which claimed to be "only 100,000, watts but could be heard on most car radios continuously from New York City to San Diego! The movie "American Graffiti" paid homage to the station and Wolfman Jack by suggesting Robert Smith (Wolfman's real name) was actually Wolfman Jack's producer! A facade probably to keep Smith out of trouble - some of his shenanigans on X E R B were "murky" at best! An excellent vid of a dangerous event! morpheusatloppers thanks for posting!

@noordzee1367 10 жыл бұрын

I remember that night very well,it must go down as the most exciting piece of radio ever,i was glued to the radio and trying to ring the switzerland office was impossible as the phone lines where jammed,a great radio station

@jmenge4253 7 жыл бұрын

Wel gezellig, zo`n mayday met een muziekje erbij....

@simonfp3339 2 жыл бұрын

This is NOT the full broadcast of the Mayday messages. They started well before this and ended a good 10 minutes afterwards. This recording is taken from the Jumbo Records album "10 Years Of Offshore Radio" I have around 45 minutes of these Mayday broadcasts from FM.

@julianswatteridge5995 Жыл бұрын

Put it up here then please

@EverardDavy 7 ай бұрын

Hi. Yes. I agree this is obviously not the full broadcast. If you still have your recordings it would be really great if you could post them here. Or on some other platform.

@brianlewis3888 5 жыл бұрын

I was listening to this drama when lying in the bath! Seems like only yesterday. I took part in a demonstration at Rochester in Kent after it had been discovered that RNIs broadcasts were being jammed from a transmitter site located there. Then while on holiday in Holland I managed to locate the Mebo 2 which was being used as a tender to supply the Mebo 1. not that I was allowed to go on board by some rather burley Dutchmen! Brian.

@julianswatteridge5995 Жыл бұрын

Very sad jammed by the Labour Party !

@Roger.Coleman1949 7 жыл бұрын

Remember listening to this' live ' so well, I was in my Austin Mini in a traffic jam heading for Newmarket, I suspect that most others in the mass of cars were listening too !

@zetametallic 5 жыл бұрын

Roger Coleman I naturally do this too link events with what I was doing at the time; makes for some interesting tales like yours xxx

@HappyCynic 4 жыл бұрын

You were in a traffic jam that late at night?

@Diskoboy1974 6 жыл бұрын

Man Of Action playing in the background just makes this even more creepy for some reason.

@parasatc8183 6 жыл бұрын

Diskoboy1974 I don't think so. In fact it makes the SOS call sound like novelty to me.

@michaelpope2886 5 жыл бұрын

If that was the station theme, it makes sense to play it, but yeah... it's weird to hear the bright music behind the SOS call.

@davecommentator 3 жыл бұрын

This happened 15 years before I was born and offshore radio was pretty much gone completely by the time I was of the age to pay attention to radio, but for some reason listening to this makes me feel really sad :'(

@TheGriswald999 4 жыл бұрын

Listened to it live at the time one was fearful for there safety as it was night time

@prof.hectorholbrook4692 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing. A truly traumatic experience.

@shropshirelass66 14 жыл бұрын

thank you for uploading this

@morpheusatloppers 10 жыл бұрын

People tuned in and out of radio stations - so Alan just kept on going, repeating the distress message until they told him to abandon ship. They could hardly have made a tape loop of it, just in case. I mean, who knew?

@BrianG61UK Жыл бұрын

Was this recorded off air? From which frequency? Received at what location?

@Richard_K1630 11 жыл бұрын

This was interesting. I never knew about this. It's fun to look back. Today radio is so obnoxiously irrelevant.

@christophereast8268 6 жыл бұрын

I remember this live!

@ermyvids 11 жыл бұрын

incredible

@henkhartog8630 7 жыл бұрын

dit vergeet ik nooit meer....is lang geleden...Was verschrikkelijk. ...maar was later opgelost. ..De dader opgepakt... ( ik EN u weten wie dat waren ) ..Ja, harde tijden op de Noordzee

@jandenhartog398 Жыл бұрын

Wat herinner ik me dit nog goed !! Hierna nooit meer Veronica voor mij die hier verantwoordelijk voor was !!

@robferwerda4376 10 ай бұрын

Veronica is het voor mij NOOIT geweest, ook niet voor hun bomaanslag! Maar toen ZEKER! Boeventuig!!

@morpheusatloppers 14 жыл бұрын

@ChrisJBrady - It was their THEME! I think Alan was running on auto-pilot and used a "musical bed" for the emergency broadcast out of HABIT!

@BackToTheBlues 4 жыл бұрын

Sensible move, I thought - regular listeners would recognise the theme and instantly know something was wrong.

@prof.hectorholbrook4692 4 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@nickmaskell268 5 жыл бұрын

loved RNI sadly the Mebo II came to a sticky end after being sold to the to Libya who used the ship for target practice and she now rests in peace at the bottom of the mediterranian sea

@vanafdenoordzee 10 жыл бұрын

During the fire ,on the MEBO II,it was a record ,on the turntable:Butterfly by the Hollies.....

@marcovandeloenhorst3894 Ай бұрын

'Try it'

@TobyKoehn 12 жыл бұрын

wow.

@gerardkrist7564 7 жыл бұрын

door en in opdracht van VERONICA

@19GN03 11 жыл бұрын

Je hebt gelijk, ging veel geld in om, en Veronica (Verweij) waren natuurlijk bang om reclame gelden mis te lopen.

@1032cr 7 жыл бұрын

Na de bom aanslag heeft Radio Veronica veel reclame gelde mis gelopen.

@videotoblin 4 жыл бұрын

This got dark...

@PD0G 13 жыл бұрын

kippenvel !!!

@1032cr 7 жыл бұрын

Zeg dat wel wat een top tijd was dat dit komt nooit meer terug.

@JeBeNL 11 жыл бұрын

niet zo'n slimme beslissig van Veronica ( Gebr. Verweij)....dit betekende het begin van het einde inz. de zeezenders voor de Ned. kust. De Ned. regering begon hierdoor echt te werken aan het verdrag van Straatsburg...jammer destijds...

@alexfwolcholder7955 5 жыл бұрын

Mr. "Tommy" was doing it. GB. who else? ;-)......

@simonmason8582 Жыл бұрын

Shame to read what Alan West did after that event.

@donaldmcneil2480 5 жыл бұрын

tried to kill all on the ship bloody terrible only trying to give us good music sad world

@alexfwolcholder7955 4 жыл бұрын

It was " Tommy", who else... ;-( war- distructed- country all te time...

@arthurvasey 3 жыл бұрын

It would be “Scheveningen” that that poor chap had to pronounce - why not “Delft!?”. That’s pronounceable in any language! At least a land-based station could move all the staff out of the studio and into the street and call the fire brigade if something along these lines happened - but this is a ship in the middle of the North Sea - they don’t have a fire station on the ocean! Even if they did, they couldn’t get there quickly enough! I did read somewhere that they managed to put out the conflagration with only minimal damage - Mebo II stayed afloat and were able to resume broadcasting the next day and an emergency crew were able to properly fix her and make her seaworthy again!