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Radio Caroline, Britain's first Pirate Broadcaster, is celebrating 60 years on the air this year. These days it's no longer the rebel out in international waters beaming music to European listeners; it's a legal non-profit station that generates programs from a land-based studio in Britain.
However, once a month, it originates shows from the ship, the Ross Revenge, moored in territorial waters of the Blackwater estuary off England's Essex coast. It's pure old-school nostalgia, the way it was done decades ago. ABC News London correspondent Tom Rivers is out on the ship where the broadcasters are remembering bygone days this weekend and raising funds to get the boat - which is on the U-K's National Register of Historic Vessels - into dry dock for vital restoration work.
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Radio Caroline, Britain's first Pirate Broadcaster, is celebrating 60 years on the air this year. These days it's no longer the rebel out in international waters beaming music to European listeners; it's a legal non-profit station that generates programs from a land-based studio in Britain.
However, once a month, it originates shows from the ship, the Ross Revenge, moored in territorial waters of the Blackwater estuary off England's Essex coast. It's pure old-school nostalgia, the way it was done decades ago. ABC News London correspondent Tom Rivers is out on the ship where the broadcasters are remembering bygone days this weekend and raising funds to get the boat - which is on the U-K's National Register of Historic Vessels - into dry dock for vital restoration work.