Lightvessel No. 18, of Dowsing Station, was taken out of service in 1987 and served in 1999 as a radio station for Radio North Sea International, off Harwich, Essex as part of a fundraising drive for RLNI[?], the Royal National Lifeboat Institution[?].
... claim its origin a Charles de Gaulle’s Appeal of June 18 in BBC where he proclaimed that the war was not over. Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain had already signed the armistice ...