Map detailing actual cruise route for trip on 28th September 2003 from Southend Pier to some of the Maunsell Sea Forts in the Thames Estuary used by various Pirate Radio stations in the 1960's.Map adapted from the "GNOMETECH" website which has info about River Thames sites including the forts used by the offshore radio stations...
Radio Forts cruise - PS Waverley at Southend Pier 2nd October 2005
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View of Red Sands Fort with some of the Shivering Sands towers in the background as seen from Minster on the Isle of Sheppey in 2005. (Photo courtesy of Graham Bartlett).