THE GANGPLANK - welcome aboard the Radio Waves web site
THE BRIDGE - a guide to the pages on this web site
THE MEMORIES - the swinging sixties
THE RADIO STATIONS - a summary of the offshore atations that were audible in the UK
THE SHIPS - a summary of the offshore radio ships broadcasting to the UK
SOUNDS OF THE SEA - Offshore radio jingles and songs
THE CHART ROOM - album and singles charts
TODAY'S RADIO OFFERINGS - Bureaucrasy and boredom
ROCK THE BOAT - music no longer heard on the radio
THE ROSS REVENGE TODAY - a pictorial tour of the famous Radio Caroline ship
THE ROSS REVENGE TODAY - a pictorial tour of the famous Radio Caroline ship
THE ROSS REVENGE TODAY - welcome aboard
THE ROSS REVENGE TODAY - down below
THE ROSS REVENGE TODAY - transmitters and aerials
THE ROSS REVENGE TODAY - studios and library
THE ROSS REVENGE TODAY - studios and library
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RADIO WAVES
The story of the rise and fall of offshore radio and how it affected the music industry.

THE ROSS REVENGE
A pictorial tour of the famous Radio Caroline ship
BEFORE RADIO CAROLINE
The Freyr
The Ross Revenge did, of course, have a life before it became connected with radio broadcasting. Jón Eldon Logason wrote to me from Iceland and sent these marvellous photographs.
The ship was built in Germany by Seebeck in Bremerhaven in 1959 for the Icelandic Government and was a gift to a friend how was running a fish factory. It was the flagship of the Islandic Fishing fleet.at nearly 1000 tons, and was named Freyr.. It carried the registration RE 1 - meaning Reykjavik No1.
Jon was part of the crew as an engineer for about two years. While he was working on the ship, he remembers coming to the UK several times, calling at Grimsby or Hull with fresh fish from Iceland.
As far as he can remember, the Freyr was sold to the Ross company in 1962.


Polar bear logo on funnel
The funnel, showing the polar bear logo


Polar bear on funnel
This close-up view of the funnel shows the immense detail in the painted polar bear (or icebear, as they would call it in Iceland) - a true work of art. This was the logo of the Icelandic company Ísbjörninn that operated the ship.


View of the stern
Looking down at the stern of the ship, whilst underpower at sea.


The Freyr in dry dock
This is a view that not many have seen of the Ross Revenge! This is the Freyr in dry dock.
Incidentally, Jon added that he had heard rumours that his old ship had caught fire and subsequently sunk. He was so pleased to learn through this web site that the ship had found a new life and remains alive and well.
I am very grateful to Jon for sending these pictures to enhance the site. The copyright of all pictures, of course, is his.