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	Paddy Roy Bates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bates served in the British Army, rising to the rank of Major.
		On learning that Bates had set up there, O'Rahilly sent men to land on the tower, but their boat was driven off with petrol bombs and (according to O'Rahilly's men) gunfire.
		The radio station never began broadcasting from the new location, but Bates nonetheless decided to stay, and proclaimed Roughs Tower to be the Principality of Sealand in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates (305 words)

	Sealand Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On September 2, 1967, the fort was occupied by Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who claimed it as his own.
		In 1978, while Prince Roy was away, a German man and several Dutch citizens forcibly took over Roughs Tower and held Prince Roy's son, Michael, captive, releasing Michael several days later in the Netherlands.
		Roy of Sealand claimed sovereignty and declared independence since 2 September 1967, and later chartered a Sealand State Corporation charged with the development of the state.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/se/sealand.html (1796 words)

	OSCN Found Document:Bates v State
		Roy Bates was convicted of keeping and maintaining a bawdyhouse, and he appeals.
		Bates was on the bed with Winford Riddles when they went in the house; the doors were open; I come with my father when I came in to talk with the county attorney about the matter.
		Bates and the fellow that was driving with her had a watermelon in the car; they were in a Ford touring car; I did not see anything wrong between Mrs.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeid=38266 (2369 words)

	Sealand
		Roy Bates, henceforth Roy of Sealand, exerted state authority on the island and thus was an absolute sovereign.
		In 1978, while Bates was away, the "Prime Minister" he had appointed, Alexander G. Achenbach, and several German and Dutch citizens staged a forcible takeover of Roughs Tower, holding Bates' son Michael captive, before releasing him several days later in the Netherlands.
		Bates thereupon enlisted armed assistance and, in a helicopter assault, retook the fortress.
	www.chiefacoins.com /Database/Micro-Nations/Sealand.htm (1166 words)

	A Nation for Friend and Faux - Global Policy Forum - Nations and States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bates knew there were other platforms in the North Sea, and one evening he and his friends started talking about forming a country on one of them.
		Bates was puzzled, he says, because he had issued passports only to a few hundred friends and collaborators and didn't know the German businessman.
		Roy Bates denies any links to the busted Sealand gang, and Spanish police say no one in his family is a suspect.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/exprment/0426faux.htm (2348 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Health \| 'I was a stroke waiting to happen'
		Roy feels a picture of health and credits a technique being pioneered at the University Hospital, in Coventry, for his new lease of life.
		When Roy, from Coventry, was examined, Mr Imray and his team found debris travelling through his blood and realised he was at high risk of further damage, and he then underwent surgery.
		Roy, who knows he was at a high risk of stroke, said he will always be grateful for the doctors' intervention.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/health/5242092.stm (746 words)

	Paddy Roy Bates - Wikipedia
		Paddy Roy Bates (1922) is de zelfbenoemde prins van Sealand, het kleinste (niet erkende) staatje van Europa (550 m²).
		Voordat Paddy Roy Bates zichzelf tot prins uitriep, was hij majoor in het Britse Leger, daarna was hij visser en radiopiraat.
		Bates en zijn vrouw leven maar af en toe op het booreiland.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates (279 words)

	Damn Interesting » The History of Sealand
		Roy Bates had previously operated a low-power station called Radio Essex from another sea barge, but it had been within the 3-mile area of British legal control, and he had been caught and fined.
		Roy was approached by a few shady groups seeking to use his platform for their own ends, including smugglers, but he turned them all away, insisting that he would do nothing to harm the UK.
		Concerned, Roy and his wife tried to make contact with their son Michael at Sealand, but since there was no phone or radio on the artificial island, they had to call local fishermen and the coast guard.
	www.damninteresting.com /?p=188 (1447 words)

	PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND (HMS ROUGHS) ROUGH SANDS, UNITED KINGDOM
		The original squatter who gained control by fighting earlier squatters is Roy Bates, who over a drink or two or three in a pub, came up with the idea that he would call his wife the "Princess of the Princality of Sealand".
		Bates, by his own admission got his authority from his own head filled with booze and headlines promoting the then upcoming creation of a new Prince of Wales.
		Bates obviously took his ideas out of one pub and began retelling them at another pub, and after a while a lot of boozed up people lost touch with reality and came to promote these same ideas even when they appeared to be sober.
	www.geocities.com /~freebornjohn/RADLON/SEALAND.html (1283 words)

	Sealand - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		On September 2, 1967, the fort was occupied by Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters and claimed it as his own.
		In 1968, Michael Bates was summoned to court as a result of an incident during which shots were fired at a British navy vessel in the vicinity of Sealand.
		In 1978, while Bates was away, the "Prime Minister" he had appointed, Professor Alexander G. Achenbach, and several Dutch citizens staged a coup d'état, forcibly taking over Roughs Tower and holding his son, Michael, captive, before releasing him several days later in the Netherlands.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=28667 (2928 words)

	Sealand - MicroWiki - A Wikia wiki
		In 1968, Roy's son Michael Bates was summoned to court as a result of an incident during which shots were fired at a British navy vessel [or by Trinity House]Template:Fact in the vicinity of Sealand.
		When Paddy Roy Bates and his associates occupied Roughs Tower in 1967 it was located in international waters, outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom and all other sovereign states.
		Irrespective of its legal status, Sealand is managed by the Bates family as though it were a recognised sovereign entity, and they are its hereditary royal rulers.
	micronations.wikia.com /wiki/Sealand (2783 words)

	Sealand
		But in 1978, whilst Sovereign Roy was away from the island, a new clandestine and a new threatening invasion took place.
		The person Sovereign Roy elected to look after the state when he was away initiated the attack.
		Sovereign Roy's Sealand is unusual because it is a utopia that hasn't failed.
	www.ladypirate.co.uk /sealand.htm (841 words)

	Popular Films \| Press \| Sealand \| Mark Lucas
		In 1997, the Bates family were approached by the FBI in connection with the murder of Gianni Versace.
		He sees Roy's struggle for his principality's recognition as "a natural movie." Although he admits to having difficulty fitting the 40-year time span into two hours of screen-time, he pitched the story successfully to Warner Brothers and the project is now in development.
		On the eve of the change, Roy extended Sealand's own territory to 12 miles, except where it overlaps his neighbour's, in which case he rather pointedly claims half the distance to the shore.
	www.popularfilms.com /press_sealand_mlucas.html (3179 words)

	Acidophilus notes \| 09:44
		Roy Bates decided to move his radio equipment from HM Fort Knock John to HM Fort Roughs after he was found guilty in the UK of illegal broadcasting from HM Fort John Knox.
		Roy Bates and his associates finally physically expelled the existing squatters representing Radio Caroline, and on September 2 1967, he claimed it as his own.
		When Paddy Roy Bates and his associates occupied Roughs Tower/HM Fort Roughs in 1967 it was located in international waters, outside the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom and all other sovereign states.
	www.acidophiluseffects.com /notes/?title=Sealand (3107 words)

	The Principality of Sealand
		Roy first released the Dutch citizens, as the war was over, and the Geneva Convention requires the release of all prisoners.
		Prince Roy, who was grateful that the incident had not resulted in a loss of life, and did not want to bloody the reputation of Sealand, eventually released him as well.
		The previous day, Prince Roy declared the extension of Sealand's territorial waters to be a like 12 nautical miles, so that right of way from the open sea to Sealand would not be blocked by British claimed waters.
	www.sealandgov.org /history.html (1644 words)

	ImJasonH.com » Print » The Past, Present, and Future of Sealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Since it was decommisioned in the 1950’s and claimed by [3] Paddy Roy Bates in 1967, the sea fort has done nothing but cause controversy, and spark debates as to what a “nation” really is. The nation has printed passports and postage stamps, and minted coins.
		In 1979, a group of “invaders” led by the micronation’s “Prime Minister” himself staged a coup while Bates was away, and claimed the fortress as their own, taking Bates’ son hostage.
		Bates gathered a force of his own and retook his land, detaining one of the invaders for treason against Sealand.
	imjasonh.com /post/20print (477 words)

	NPR Weekend Edition Saturday: Sealand
		In 1965 millionaire fishing magnate Roy Bates occupied the platform, hoping to make it the base for his pirate radio station, Radio Essex.
		Bates concluded he might turn a profit from the platform by creating his own principality.
		Prince Roy won't identify any of his customers, and he will only hint at what he will or will not accept -- although child pornographers are definitely not welcome.
	www.npr.org /programs/wesat/features/2001/sealand/081101.sealand.html (846 words)

	TY: The story of Roy Bates and Sealand
		Englishman Roy Bates founded Sealand in 1967 by occupying an abandoned World War II artillery platform 7 miles off the coast of Britain.
		Bates was not there, but his son Michael the Prince Regent was.
		Hearing of the situation, the elder Bates immediately flew to Sealand by helicopter and retook the country by force of arms -- or, more accurately, arm (he confronted the intruders with a rifle).
	www.tomorrowyesterday.com /2005/07/the_story_of_ro.html (398 words)

	ROY C. BATES (KURT BAUCHWITZ) PAPERS
		Bates continued to write during the 1950s and 1960s, however, his writing took the form of semi-autobiographical observations, which he recorded on a regular, often a daily, basis.
		Bates also became interested in the legal aspects of psychedelic drugs during the 1960s, which resulted in his participation in the M.I.T.-based Neurobiological and Psychedelic Study Group, as well as publication of an article on "Psychedelics and the Law" in 1964.
		Bates died in Milton, Massachusetts on July 18, 1974 at the age of 84.
	library.albany.edu /speccoll/findaids/ger011.htm (10758 words)

	Popular Films \| Press \| Sealand \| James Howell
		A-list actors Mel Gibson and Russell Crowe are already being touted as potential stars to play the parts of Roy, and his son Michael, a part-time cockler who is the current Prince of Sealand, the smallest country in the world.
		Roy Bates moved into the derelict fort on Christmas Eve 1966 with wife Joan and his children.
		Bates declared Sealand a principality and came up with a plan to run Sealand as an offshore tax haven.
	www.popularfilms.com /press_sealand_jhowell.html (471 words)

	Paddy Roy Bates - Wikipedia
		Paddy Roy Bates (nennt sich auch Roy of Sealand) (* 1922) ist ehemaliger Betreiber eines Piratensenders und späterer Gründer des Fürstentums Sealand, einer international nicht anerkannten Mikronation, die 1967 gegründet wurde.
		Als der von Bates Übernahme erfuhr, sandte er sofort ein paar Männer aus, um die Festung zurückzuerobern.
		Bates und seine Frau Joan leben aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht mehr in Sealand, den Alltagsbetrieb haben sie ihrem Sohn Michael überlassen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paddy_Roy_Bates (292 words)

	CNN Transcript - Business Unusual: Sealand Offers Unique Business Opportunity; Council on Economic Priorities Honors ...
		That's when a former major in the British army, Roy Bates, took it over, declared it a nation-state, and installed himself and his family as the concrete island's rulers.
		ROY BATES, PRINCE ROY OF SEALAND: Anything which is injurious to Britain won't be done here.
		BATES: It is a 3-7 (ph), it's the equipment of the German 88.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0007/16/bun.00.html (3157 words)

	Micronations
		In the mid 1960s it was occupied by a British businessman, Roy Bates, and his family.
		He proclaimed himself Prince Roy and the platform to be the Principality of Sealand.
		Proclaiming the island his own state, Bates gave the titles of prince and princess to himself and his wife and called his new home the Principality of Sealand.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Selfprocl.html (1670 words)

	More on Sealand -
		On September 2, 1967, the fort was occupied by Paddy Roy Bates, a British subject and pirate-radio broadcaster, who ejected a competing group of pirate broadcasters and claimed sovereignty on the basis of his interpretation of international law (see Legal status).
		In 1968, Roy's son Michael Bates was summoned to court as a result of an incident during which shots were fired at a British navy vessel in the vicinity of Sealand.
		The directors were listed as Michael Roy Bates, who was named Chief Operating Officer, and Ryan Donald Lackey, a US citizen.
	www.recopedia.com /Ru-to-Sh/Sealand.php (3350 words)

	Judgement
		"Michael Roy Bates on the 6th May, 1968 at Roughs Tower within the jurisdiction of Essex Assizes had in his possession a.22 pistol without holding a Firearms Certificate in respect of the same in force on said day".
		The evidence led for the Prosecution, summarized shortly, was to the effect that while Trinity House men were attending to a buoy north west of the artificial erection called Roughs Tower: shots were fired in their direction be the second accused from a.22 pistol belonging to his father, the first accused.
		Bates, his wife and two children live there is not gone into, but Bates calls it, somewhat euphemistically "Sealand".
	www.seanhastings.com /havenco/sealand/judgement.html (1588 words)

	People - SKYGAZE - Interesting Facts, The Strange and Unexplained, Mysteries and Secrets
		In 1966 a former British major named Roy Bates moved, with his wife and son, to a 10 by 25 foot cement caisson built 7 miles off the British coast during World War II.
		Bates named the platform "Sealand," declared it to be an independent country, crowned himself king and his wife queen, issued postage stamps, designed passports, and even created a Sealand dollar.
		Since they are beyond the 3 mile limit, Bates and his kingdom are outside the jurisdiction of any other country.
	www.skygaze.com /content/facts/people.shtml (2188 words)

	rice - ricg89.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Junia married George Washington Bates, son of Jay T Clayton Bates and Vada Lee Owens.
		Carol David Bates was born 14 Feb 1948.
		Roy Christopher Benjamin (Elizabeth Crenshaw, Nancy Eleanor Riggins, Seloma Elizabeth Rice, Jordan, Isaac, Moses, Matthew) was born 30 Jul 1909 in Pickens Co., SC.
	www.homestead.com /oldpend3/files/rice/ricg89.htm (831 words)

	Click Here For Freedom - The Free Radical Online
		Major Bates' radio station was located on Fort Knock John, a World War II anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea.
		At the subsequent trial, Bates argued that Sealand was outside the jurisdiction of the English court.
		After luring Roy and his wife, Joan, to Austria for a meeting, they arrived on Sealand by helicopter and took Michael hostage.
	www.freeradical.co.nz /content/47/47darnton.php (1607 words)

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