A 85 ft. yacht Offshore radio station: "In July of 1960, Radio Cuba Independiente, a broadcast radio station was installed aboard an 85 ft. yacht named Calypso, this was really the first clandestine transmitter operated by exiles in a regular base. The Calypso would stay in the Key Sal Bank and broadcast programs to Cuba…
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Borkumriff
The Borkumriff, an ex German lightship built in 1911, was located in Emden, West Germany and purchased for 63,000 Guilders. It was rebuilt and refitted as a broadcasting vessel at the Karstens-Werft in Emden in 1959. On 18th April 1960, the Borkumriff left Emden, towed by the British Tug Guardsman to a location off Katwijk…
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T.S.S. Awatea
The New Zealand liner TSS Awatea. Her lovely Maori name means "Eye of the Dawn". The turbine-powered, 13,482-ton liner was built in 1936 by Vickers Armstrong of Barrow for the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand. Able to do a fast 23 knots, she served on the company's Pacific route from Auckland and Sydney to…
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M.V. Aurora
Flag: Dutch. Classification: N.S.I. Dimensions: L.o.a 33,67 Mtrs. Width 6,80 Mtrs. Draught 3,15 Mtrs. GRT: 172 Tons. Speed 10 knots. Technical Equipment: Main Engine Caterpillar 3408 420 Hp. Auxiliary Engines. Perkins 60 Kva. Daf 40 Kva. 01 Deck beam SWL 250 kgs. 2 firepumps 1 Gearbox Twin Disc 3 Viking liferafts 25 persons each 5 …
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USRC Apache
Builder: Reeder & Sons, Baltimore, MD Completed: commissioned 22 Aug. 1891 Decommissioned: 31 Dec. 1937 Length: 190'oa Navigation draft: 7'9'' draft Beam: 29' Displacement: 416 tons Propulsion: compound-expansion steam, 15.75''and 27'' diam by 24'' stroke replaced with triple-expansion steam, 17'', 27'', 43'' diam by 24'' stroke, 12 kts Screw: twin replaced with single Complement…
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S.Y. Aldebaran
Technical data: Type of ship Sonate Ovni 42 (Aluminium) Length 13,5 m Width 4 m Draught 0,8 m to 2,5 m Motive Power 100 m2 sails, diesel engine 47 kW Power supply 12 V, 230 V, 380 V Water supply 800 l Tank Dinghy outboard motor 10 kW Crew 8 persons The ALDEBARAN can be…
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M.V. Aegir II = Martina
The MV Martina, the former Scheveningen fishing vessel "Scheveningen 159", was built in 1923. It is the sister ship of Radio 270's Oceaan VII, of the ill-fated broadcasting vessel Morgenster and of the Dolfijn (used as a tender ship in the seventies).Tonnage 270, length 42 metres, width 7.5 metres, motor 200pk Brons, generators 2x50kva. During…
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M.V. Aegir
Length 36 metres, width 7 metres, tonnage 250, Deutz 250 pk motor, 15 kva and 10 kva generators. Built in 1929 as 'Express 5003760' by Gideon, v/h J. Koster Hzn., Groningen for N.V. Motorschip "Express", Rotterdam (under leadership of N.V. Scheepvaart Mij. Globus, Rotterdam). In 1931, the vessel was sold to Wm. H. Müller &…
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