There was an attack on Radio Northsea by a competing pirate radio ship Veronica hoping to shut down shut Northsea’s transmitter that started broadcasting in Dutch.

Aboard Radio Northsea, a ship that broadcasts pop music and news to Western Europe and Britain from just outside the Dutch three-mile territorial limit, Disc Jockey Alan West was playing a tune titled, all too appropriately. Melting Pot. Suddenly a tremendous blast shook the vessel. “I thought another ship had…