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The Principality of Sealand (/ ˈ s iː ˌ l æ n d /) is a micronation on HM Fort Roughs (also known as Roughs Tower), [2] an offshore platform in the North Sea.It is situated on Rough Sands, a sandbar located approximately 11 kilometres (6 nmi) from the coast of Suffolk and 13 kilometres (7 nmi) from the coast of Essex.
[10] 19 days later, on 2 September 1967, Bates declared the independence of Roughs Tower and deemed it the Principality of Sealand. [11] Ronan O'Rahilly of another pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, along with a small group of men, tried to storm the platform that Bates claimed. Bates and his associates used petrol bombs and guns to thwart O ...
He instead declared the independence of Fort Roughs and declared it the Principality of Sealand. [29] [30] Bates died in 2012, and Michael Bates has since succeeded him as Prince of Sealand. [31] Operation Atlantis was a project started in 1968 by Werner Stiefel, aiming to establish a new, libertarian nation in international waters via ...
The Principality of Seborga is an elective monarchy and elections are held every seven years. The subsequent monarch was Prince Marcello Menegatto (Prince Marcello I) who ruled from 2010 to 2019. On 23 April 2017, Prince Marcello was re-elected and took office for another seven years, [ 36 ] but abdicated the throne in 2019. [ 37 ]
Michael Roy Bates, self-styled as Prince Michael of Sealand, is an English businessman and self-published author. He operates a self-proclaimed and unrecognized micronation [1] called the Principality of Sealand, which he inherited from his parents Paddy Roy Bates and Joan Bates. He has claimed the title "Prince of Sealand" since the death of ...
The sixth clause provides an additional eighty-mark fine for killing a man outside of his own sealand split between the judges and the recipient; that is, if a man is killed in a sealand other than his own, the fine is eighty additional marks on the original payment with half being given to the judge. [15]
The Principality of Sealand, a micronation formed on a decommissioned sea fort near Suffolk, England [10] The unrecognised, self-declared micronation of Sealand, at the bay of the Thames Estuary, based on an abandoned United Kingdom military sea fort. [6] Smaller floating islands in protected waters, such as Richart Sowa's Spiral Island
During the Second World War, the Government of the United Kingdom set up a small base in the North Sea, but was then abandoned after the war had ended.In 1967, pirate radio broadcaster Roy Bates claimed the territory as the Principality of Sealand, and eventually the British government claimed Sealand within their jurisdiction.