Radio Caroline Bible
updated edition is out
Published just in time for Christmas, the Radio Caroline Bible iwas published on the 2nd November. It has the very latest news from the Radio Caroline camp including a picture of the station's new AM transmitter, due on the air later this week. This will boost Caroline's output power four fold, bringing the 'Sound of a Nation' to a wider audience on the AM band.
The updated edition brings the story right up to date, as of Autumn 2021. It now has a technical appendix describing the equipment of Caroline’s ships and the land based facilities. The pagination is now up to 558 pages.
The story is packed with disasters, boardings, excitement and the usual copious amounts of skull-duggery covering events from Radio Caroline’s four eras. Told by many of the key people who made Radio Caroline happen, this book gives a platform to the station managers, secretaries, and others who are usually in the shadows. Their unique aspects help put the flesh on the true story of what is the world’s best known radio ship.
Unique content & many ‘never published before’ photos among the 350 illustrations. It’s chronologically correct, fully indexed and will surely become a real collector’s item. The book’s gorgeous full-colour cover shows the ship in all her magnificence with her huge tower clawing high into the sky.
- an amazing Christmas gift!
This is an item that will be treasured for many years by any Radio Caroline fan
Full details of this incredible publication are on the Radio Caroline Bible’s own web site.
Book Cover and Poster
The book is unique in that it is a solidly made, hand-finished, hardback. It also has a superb picture of the Ross Revenge on its front cover, rather than the traditional non-colour library style solid cover. "Fotoflyte took such a fabulous picture of the Ross Revenge with the Olau Brittania ferry cruising pas and we had it available to us at high resolution, so the chance of remembering the Ross Revenge, in all her magnificence, with one of her friends sailing pas, for size comparison, made it I'm possible to resist," said Paul.
The shot was taken in the second week of august, 1987, just after the UK increased its Territorial Waters to 12 miles, making the former and protected anchorage in the Knock Deep inside UK jurisdiction. This meant the ship had to moved out to a mooring near the South Falls Head, a more exposed spot and closer to shipping lanes.
It was the wild weather two months later that weakened the tower on the Ross Revenge, causing it to fall into the sea a couple of weeks later. It was also the heavy seas at that location that tore the Ross Revenge from her anchor four years later, and there her up onto the Goodwin Sands.
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| The Ross Revenge in 1987 with the Olau Britannia passing |
When first published, we produced some A3 posters of the cover to promote the book and so many have asked for copies of that, we have now had a small batch specially printed. These are now on sale for a limited period at the Radio Caroline Bible website. They are digitally printed at high resolution on art paper and look superb on any office of den wall.
Available now for just £3.90
(Including postage, folded) to UK addresses only.
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