Radio Caroline John F. Kennedy. On a fund-raising trip to the US, O'Rahilly reportedly saw a "Life" magazine photograph of Kennedy and his children in the Oval Office that served as the inspiration for the name "Caroline Radio". In an extant photo, Caroline Kennedy and her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., are apparently dancing in the oval office as their father looks on, an activity which O'Rahilly reportedly interpreted as a playful disruption of government. The "Fredericia" was renamed MV "Caroline" and anchored off Felixstowe, where it began test transmissions on Friday, 27 March 1964. On Saturday, 28 March, it began regular
Radio Caroline 1964 O'Rahilly obtained the 702-ton former Danish passenger ferry, "Fredericia", which was converted into a radio ship at the Irish port of Greenore, owned by O'Rahilly's father. At the same time, Allan Crawford's "Project Atlanta" was equipping the MV "Mi Amigo" at Greenore, where the two competed to be the first on air.<ref name="Henry/von Joel"></ref> Financial backing for the venture came from six investors, including John Sheffield, chairman of Norcross, Carl "Jimmy" Ross of Ross Foods, Jocelyn Stevens of "Queen" magazine, with which Radio Caroline shared its first office. O'Rahilly named the station after Caroline Kennedy, daughter of U.S. President