Updated: Wednesday January 18th 2006
The first radio broadcasts from ships (from 1898 to 1950) - A chronological table
The heydays of watery wireless (from 1951 up until today) - A chronological table
The offshore radio ships:
| Aegir
| Aegir II = Martina
| Aldebaran
| Apache
| Aurora
| Awatea
| Bon Jour = Magda Maria =
Mi Amigo | Borkum Riff | Calypso
| Canberra
| Ceto | City of Panama
| Chatham
|
Cheeta
| Cheeta II | Columbus | Comet
| Communicator | Courier
| Droit de Parole | Faithful Friend
| Flamborian | Fredericia
| Galaxy | Grenville | Hatzvi
| Hebe | Hof | Janine
| Kanimbla | Kajur | King David (Capital
Radio) | King David (Arutz
2000) | Lucky Star | Magdalena
| Magda Maria = "Morning Star" | Mebyon Kernow | Mebo II
| Norderney
| Oceaan VII
| Odelia | Olga Patricia = Laissez
Faire | Peace | Phoenix | Polaris
| Red Rose
| Ross Revenge | Sarah |
Spindle Eye
| Texas
| Tiri | Tiri II | Uilenspiegel
| Unknown (China) | Unknown (Estaçion Piranaica) |
Unknown
(MARLO) |
Unknown (Northlight Radio) | Unknown (Radio Morue) |
Offshore radio from artificial structures:
| Knock John | Red Sands | REM-eiland | Shivering Sands | Sunk Head |
Ill-fated offshore radio ships:
| Birchlea | Cederlea | Déesse de la démocratie | Deep Diver | Electra | Ellen | Epivan | Fury | Grampian Dawn and Grampian Princess | Hendrik Jan | Kowloon = Shanghai Moon | Lady Dixon | HMS Leviathan | Manor Park | Mebo | Morgenster | Nannell | Piscator | Pursuit / Jubilee | Sea Level XI | Unknown (Gdansk) | Unknown (Radio Albatross) | Unknown (Radio Europa) | Unknown (Radio Mauritius) |
Licensed radio or outside broadcasting ships:
| Bison
|
Coastal
Ranger | De Hoop
| Dolfijn
| Earl of Zetland
| Enterprise
| Fortuna
| Galexy
| Greif
| Hope
|
Karel Doorman
| LV-8
| LV-18 ("Mebo 3")
| Mercur
| Minerva | Mueritz
| Noé
| Ocean Defender
| Sittard
| St. Paul
|
Sturmvogel
| Thalassa
|
The Sullivans
| Thekla
| Willem Beukelsz
| Yeoman Rose
| Unknown (Celestial
Radio) |
Unknown (Malta)
| Unknown (Radio
Euzkadi) |
Artificial structures with ill-fated projects:
| Rough Tower | Gunfleet Lighthouse | Tongue Sands |
Unconfirmed reports:
| Carmen | Cornucopia | Mayflower | Pamela | R 48 (Dave "The Fish") | Rex | Unknown (Radio Lakeland) | Unknown (Your radio of the sea) |
First experimental or unique watery wireless:
| Andromeda | Appalachian | Baloeran | Bombala | Cruiser Aurora | Berengaria | Defiant | Director II | Elettra | Empress of Britain | East Goodwin Lightship | Franconia | Flying Huntress | Hansestadt Danzig | Iowa | Jacob Ruppert | | USS Leviathan | Little WLW | Lurline | Mariposa | Missouri (BB 11) | Missouri (BB 63) | Mount Olympus | Monarch of Bermuda | Mt McKinley | Normandie | Orion | Queen Mary | Riverina | Royal Yacht Osborne | Seth Parker | West Virginia |
Adventist World Radio featuring: "The First Radio Broadcasts From Ships"
| Parts 1 and 2 | Parts 3, 4 and 5 | Part 6 , 7 and 8 | Parts 9, 10 and 11 | Parts 12, 13, 14 and 15 | Parts 16, 17 and 18 | Parts 19, 20, 21 and 22 | Parts 23, 24 and 25 | Parts 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 | Parts 31, 32 and 33 |
|
|
Back to The Offshore Radio Guide
