Beautiful red and white new "dazzle camouflage" colour scheme! Still beautiful, whatever the colours! Does anyone realise why the colours ARE red and white? Because the owners of R.N.I. were SWISS, and these are the colours of the Swiss flag!
A sorry end to a station that played 'Peace' by Peter......to end up as target practice for an Army. Sad news indeed. Good to hear 'Man of Action' being played here again from the Mebo 2.
On 16th January (1977) at 10:30 hours the Angela headed seaward followed by the Mebo II. Captain van der Kamp was put in charge of both ships. On 20th January both ships took shelter off Brest, France due to bad weather until the 28th.
On 14th February both ships entered the harbour, the crew of Cape Verde Islanders were paid off and another Dutch Captain takes over. Both ships were hired by Colonel Ghadaffi while land based transmitters are installed by Mebo Ltd for the Peoples Revolutionary Army. On 8th August 1977 both the Mebo II and the Angela set sail for Benghazi where they arrived on 11th August.
On 1st February both ships enter the Mediterranean Sea. On 2nd February they took on supplies in Ceuta, Morocco. On 9th February the vessels arrived off Tripoli (Tarabulus), but were not allowed into port because of problems with the ships papers, that referred to the ships as Mebo and Mebo II.
Was the ship referred to as Mebo, the original ship, that was impounded before it could put to see, and broadcast? So they had to buy Mebo 2, which did get out to see, and go into service. Please reply! Thanks, Nygel.
When a do you mean the station's theme tune? That's called Man Of Action. You can look up who it's by on the internet, because I can't remember just now DEEJAYENPS
On 30th October the Mebo II set sail for a new anchorage at Benghazi. On 4th January 1978 instructions were issued to take the Mebo II back to Tripoli. On 19th January the Mebo II arrived back in Tripoli. In April 1978 the Mebo II was renamed El Fatah, and was now owned by the Libyan Government. In 1984 both the Almasira (ex Angela) and the El Fatah (ex Mebo II) were used for target practice by the ibyan Navy. The ships sank in the Gulf of Sidra, Mediterranean Sea
