The Broadcasting Fleet

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Sources:

"The Encyclopedia of Offshore Broadcasting" by Jim Parkes

The Israeli offshore radio expert Mike Brand

Personal information by Paul Alexander Rusling

Personal information by Printz Holman

Adventist World Radio's "Wavescan"

Lots of information came from Geoff Toon

Leendert Vingerling helped a lot

The book "Offshore Radio" by Gerry Bishop (published 1975)

The book "From International Waters" by Mike Leonard (published in 1996)

Several books by Hans Knot (especially "Historie van de zeezenders 1907-1973" and "1974-1992" and "De kleintjes van de noordzee Deel 1" and "Deel 2")

The booklets "The Maunsell Sea Forts" and "The Radio Pirates aboard the Offshore Forts in the Thames Estuary" by Frank R. Turner

Several Offshore Echo's Magazins

Göran Carlsson's website

The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

The National Maritime Museum Association

John S. Platt on the history of the M.V. Galaxy