A comment from TroublePup alerted me that the Principality of Sealand burned Friday.
The Evening Star explained:
Witnesses watched in amazement as a huge plume of smoke started to rise from one of the legs of Sealand — and boats raced to the scene.
Seafront worker Bruce Harrison said: “It was quite spectacular. The amount of smoke was [...]
Posted June 25, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: fire, gunnery platform, independent kingdom, June Bates, Michael Bates, micronation, north sea, prince roy, principality of sealand, roughs tower, roy bates, roy of sealand, sealand, smoke, sovereignty. 3 Comments.
Principality of Sealand is a WWII-era gunnery platform — called Roughs Tower — in the North Sea, outside Britain’s pre-1968 three nautical mile claim of sovereign waters. Founded by Roy and Joan Bates in 1967, over time, Roy wrote a constitution and named himself and Joan as prince and princess.
The Wikipedia article on Sealand tells [...]
Posted July 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: data haven, datahaven, diplomacy, gunnery platform, havenco, independence, international relations, micronation, north sea, politics, prince roy, principality of sealand, prisoners of war, roy bates, roy of sealand, sealand, sean hastings, sovereignty. 8 Comments.
