The fans' memorabilia

Bob Arnold has very kindly allowed us to publish some photos he took while visiting Radio Northsea International's ship, mv Mebo II. He writes: “I'd been an avid listener to the pirates of the 60s but just too young to get a job out there. When RNI started I got more involved in things and did a bit of work distributing the RNI election handbills for Ronan (O'Rahilly) and Urs Emmenegger (see next page). Also, about then, I joined the Free Radio Association and the Campaign for Independent Broadcasting, and also started doing mobile discos in 1970, working for a guy called Mick Francis who ran an agency. One of his other DJs was Mike Ross so Mike and I got to know each other through that. I also started an offshore radio magazine called Newsbeat International. Basically, I built up some quite useful contacts through all of this and one of those contacts was friendly with Eva Pfister in the Mebo Zurich office who arranged for me to go out to the Mebo II for a week as a guest.”
 
The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame is very grateful to Bob for sharing his photos. Most of these photos date from the time he stayed on board the Mebo II although a few are from earlier visits to Holland.

Ian Anderson, who features in the photos, has been in touch. He has very kindly provided a DJ rota from that time, drawn up by Eva Pfister, which is below. He and Bob, after a bit of debate, have decided the visit was probably in March 1973. Ian has also made some other comments which are included in red.