Almost exactly one year after The Marine etc, Broadcasting ( Offences ) Act came into effect a station called RADIO LONDON THREE transmitted for about an hour on 204 metres as a protest against the Act. Over the next few days the station changed its name to RADIO FREE LONDON and was heard intermittently. The signals were finally traced to a flat from which ex- RADIO CAROLINE disc jockey Spangles Muldoon ( alias Chris Carey, who was later to become the head of RADIO NOVA ) was broadcasting. The radio transmitter was dismantled and confiscated but the ex-pirate had the last laugh. The equipment that was taken was a false set-up and the actual working transmitter was left intact!

In October of 1968 RADIO VERONICA started carrying out tests on 538 metres in an attempt to avoid interference from the Swiss. Gloria International, the company who had bought the RADIO LONDON ship 'Galaxy', announced plans to open a new German station on November 1st broadcasting on 266 metres.

The deadline passed but nothing was heard on the air, presumably because by then the German government had started proceedings to introduce their own Marine Broadcasting Offences Act which prompted the company's directors Emile Luthle and Norbert Gschwendt to finally withdraw financial backing for the project the following January.
During 1969 an abortive attempt was made by the owners of a prospective new pirate radio station to re-float the 'Galaxy'. They finally got onto the air in January 1970 as RADIO NORTH SEA INTERNATIONAL, but not aboard the 'Galaxy'.

The first test transmissions were made on January 23rd from a curiously psychedelic multi-coloured ship called the 'Mebo II' which was named after the owners, Messrs Meister and Boller. Their disc jockeys were to include Andy Archer, Stevie Merike, Dave Rogers, Ian Anderson and the much-travelled Alan West.

A land-based pirate station appeared in March broadcasting on 227 metres from somewhere in south-west London. Identifying itself as RADIO JACKIE it was run by 17-year old Mike Knight who occasionally had to stop during broadcasts to avoid government detection teams. Despite this the station managed to grow and survive well into the Eighties. 

CAPITAL RADIO was formed by the International Broadcasters Society on August 23rd 1969 who then proceeded to buy and refit the 360 ton coaster 'Zeevaart', renaming it 'King David'. The ship had a unique lateral circular aerial ( which caused them a lot of problems ) and was equipped with the transmitter salvaged from RADIO 270. CAPITAL RADIO made its first test broadcasts, using the same 270 metre wavelength, on May 1st 1970.

Out of History and into Legend . . .

The last of the legendary Sixties offshore pirates still operating in its original form, RADIO VERONICA, finally succumbed to the Dutch Marine Broadcasting Act on August 31st 1974. The last half-hour of disc jockey Rob Out's show featured a clock ticking loudly in the background. There was a news bulletin at 5:30p.m. followed by the owner, Bul Verweij, until 6p.m. when Rob Out took the chair to sign off with the epitaph:

These final few words were followed by the Dutch national anthem and a station jingle, which only got halfway through before the signal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .