Summer '67
Offshore News
clippings from the Francis Pullen collection

The Daily Mail covers the story of the 'Battle for Roughs Tower', when the Caroline organisation sent a raiding party on Offshore II to attempt to take the fort from Roy Bates and his royal family, including Princess Joan (left).

(Click on the story to see a legible version.)



Additional coverage of the 'beserk man' from the Daily Mail.
The crewman concerned is reputed to be the same one who had drunkenly pulled a knife while working aboard the Galaxy.


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