Radio Caroline - Ship Ross Revenge, Adrift, Easter Sunday 1988

Footage that is not fully described in the book Shiprocked by Steve Conway.

The Vessel - The Ross Revenge, had suffered a strange anchor cable break (or cut) during flat calm conditions in early April, 1988. The footage here; shows the crew attempting to stop the ships drift towards the Kent Coast at Margate, by attempting to connect a tow-line to it's tender vessel MV-Bellatrix in winds of North-Easterly Force 7.

The tow attempt failed, but the Ross Revenge's main engine was restarted using 10 cylinders, the vessell then navigated its way under its own power to a new temporary anchorage at the North-Falls bank, where the ship was anchored on a newly connected and installed spare anchor and cable. This marked the beginning of four weeks when the ship regularly repositioned itself under its own power weighing and laying its own anchor, a new main anchor and cable eventually being installed and the Ross Revenge re-positioned at the South-Falls head during the first week of May 1988 by the Dutch Vessel 'Enrust' from flushing.

Over the period of the 4 weeks was a time of extreme trouble with no English shore contact (the English office at Highgate, London) Ronan and the Canadians, still working hard, it was a stuggle that could of easily finished Radio Caroline, then.

Crew on board Ross-Revenge, to be credited with the success of keeping Radio Caroline as an offshore broadcast station from this time are :-

Peter Chicago
Ernie Stevenson
James Day (Miss-Described as James Ross, in footage)
Paul Graham
Chris Kennedy
Ad Roberts
& Richard Lee

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