Mi Amigo was originally a three-masted cargo schooner, that later gained international recognition as an offshore radio station. She was built as the schooner Margarethe for German owners. A sale in 1
Mi Amigo c. 1974
A studio on board Mi Amigo (1970s)
The Kentish Knock Lightship as published in Studies in Bird Migration (1912) by William Eagle Clarke
The Kentish Knock is a long shoal in the North Sea east of Essex, England. It is the most easterly of those of the Thames Estuary and its core, which is shallower than 18 feet, extends 6 miles. Thus i
MV Mi Amigo
…the name changing to Radio Caroline on 23 February. On 29 August 1974, Mi Amigo was towed across the North Sea by the MV Dolfijn. She was anchored near the Kentish Knock Lightship, some 18 nautical miles (33 km) off the Essex coast on 30 August. This move was timed to coincide with the passage of the…
Wreck of SS Deutschland in 1875
The lightvessel sunk in 1886
Crash of airship L15 in 1916
Admiralty Chart No 1975 Kentish Knock and the Naze to The Nore, Published 1934