Quoting a previous Neil Gates contribution:-

Chris can you confirm that the Communicator was in the North sea in
1989 and that you and Peter Chicago went aboard her?

Yes this is true. It was a few months before the raid, and it was in the control of the gents who used to do the Bellatrix run and was being made ready for the Dutch guys on the Ross to transfer their radio station over to. I think we can safely say that had the raid not have happened when it did, which ended up freezing everything in time, it would have only been a matter of weeks before the Dutch would have fled the Ross and restarted operations (including the short-wave) on the Communicator.

Now here's a thought. Although Caroline would have been crippled without the Dutch paying for everything and doing all the real supply runs, what if the Dutch had moved to the Communicator some months earlier than they planned? Would the authorities have left the Ross alone but raided the Communicator instead?
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