The Broadcasting Fleet

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The offshore radio ships

| Aegir | Aegir II = Martina | Apache | Aurora | Awatea | Bon Jour = Magda Maria = Mi Amigo | Borkumriff | Boys’ Own | Calypso | Caroline (Fredericia) | City of Panama | Chatham | Cheeta | Cheeta II | Columbus | Comet | Communicator | Courier | Droit de Parole | Elisabeth II | Faithful Friend | Galaxy | Hatzvi |  Hebe | Hof | Jeanine | Kanimbla | Kajur | King David (Capital Radio) | King David (Arutz 2000) | Lucky Star | Magdalena | Magda Maria | Malolo | Mebo II | Norderney | Oceaan VII | Odelia | Olga Patricia = Laissez Faire | Pamela | Peace | Polaris | Ross Revenge | Saint Yves | Sarah |Spindle Eye | Tiri | Tiri II | Uilenspiegel | Unknown (CMF – Radio One) | Winchester Castle |

Offshore radio from artificial structures

| Knock John | Red Sands | REM-eiland | Shivering Sands | Sunk Head |

Ill-fated offshore radio ships and projects

|Birchlea/Cedarlea | Déesse de la démocratie | Deep Diver | Electra | Elisabeth | Ellen | Epivan | Fury | Grampian Dawn and Grampian Princess | Hendrik Jan | Kowloon = Shanghai Moon | Lady Dixon | Juanita | Katie | HMS Leviathan | Manor Park | Maria | Mebo | Morgenster | Nannell = Mia Migo | Piscator | Pursuit / Jubilee | Sea Level XI |  Scheveningen 54 | Unknown (Gdansk) | Unknown (High Adventure) | Unknown (Radio Albatross) | Unknown (Radio Mauritius) |

Licensed radio or outside broadcasting ships

| Aldebaran | Bison | Catalina | Coastal Ranger | De Hoop | Dolfijn | Earl of Zetland | Enterprise | Fortuna | Galexy | Greif | Hope | Karel Doorman | LV-8 | LV-18 | Mercur | Minerva | Mueritz | Noé | Ocean Defender | Sittard | St. Paul | Sturmvogel | Thalassa | The Sullivans | Thekla | Willem Beukelsz | Yeoman Rose | Unknown (Celestial Radio) | Unknown (Malta) | Unknown (Radio Euzkadi) |

Artificial structures with ill-fated projects

| Rough Tower | Gunfleet Lighthouse | Tongue Sands |

Rumors and unconfirmed reports

|  Argus | Black Rose | Carmen | Cornucopia | Mayflower | Mebyon Kernow | R 48 (Dave “The Fish”) | Red Rose | Unknown (Radio Lakeland) | Unknown (China) | Unknown (Estaçion Pirenaica) | Unknown (Northlight Radio) | Unkonwn (OTERM) | Unknown (Radex) | Unknown (Radio Center) | Unknown (Radio Channel) | Unknown (Your radio of the sea) |

Early experimental or military projects

| Akuna | Andromeda | Appalachian | Argosy Lemal | Asama Maru | Augusta | Baloeran | Bathysphere | Blücher | Bombala | Bremen | Canberra | Carinthia | Caron | Catoclin | Ceto | Chichibu Maru | Cruiser Aurora | Berengaria | Defiant | Diego | Director II | Dominion Monarch | Elettra | Empress of Britain | East Goodwin Lightship | Eldorado | Francois Henebique | Freedom | FP-47 | Franconia | Flying Huntress | Geoanna | George Washington | Grenville | Hansestadt Danzig | Hartholdi | Harold | Henrico | Hinemoa | Hirondelle II | Iowa |Jacob Ruppert |   Kaimiloa | Kashima | Kronprinz | USS Leviathan | Little WLW | Lurline | Mariposa | Missouri (BB 11) | Missouri (BB 63) | Mount Olympus | Monarch of Bermuda | Mt McKinley | Nashville | Nevada | New Zealand Star | Nieuw Holland | Normandie | Orion | Panamint | PCER848+PCER849+PCER850 | Pennsylvania | OL22+OL23+OL24 | Queen Mary | Queen of Bermuda | Rex | Riverina | Royal Yacht Osborne | Seattle | Seth Parker | Shropshire | The Great White Fleet | Tatsuta Maru | Texas 2 | Titanic | Triton Maris | Troubridge | HMS Veronica | Victorian | Wasaga | Weeroona | West Virginia | Wombat | Wyoming |
From: International Shortwave Club USA Magazine January 1938 (ISWC 1-38)

The first radio broadcasts from ships

The heydays of watery wireless

Mislukte radioprojecten 

Ian Anderson: The Offshore Radio Masts

A large part of the texts published here are based on the great “Encyclopedia of Offshore Radio” by Jim Parkes.

We are very grateful to Dr. Adrian Peterson and Ray Robinson from Adventist World Radio and Wavescan:

Shipboard Radio Stations

And we also received valuable information from Mike Brand, Paul Rusling, Andy Sennitt, Bernhard Beck, John S. Platt, Raoul Verolleman, Prince Holman, Leendert Vingerling, Geoff Toon, Mika Mäkeläinen, Richard H. Cummings, Mike Wilson, Jan van Heeren, Hans van Dijk, Mike Barraclough, Ian Anderson,  Göran Carlsson, Wikipedia, The Offshore Radio Museum, The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame and many other sources.

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