Civilian Service
The further history of the ship's history sees her with the name of Olga Patricia and then Laissez Faire configured as a "pirate" radio ship off Essex in the United Kingdom housing 5 different radio stations from May 3rd, 1966 until August 5th, 1967, then US court cases followed by allegations of "secret" use in broadcasting from 1971 in the Caribbean with a later name of Akuarius II. By 1974 the ship had been converted to a menhaden vessel and was named the Earl J. Conrad Junior operating for what is now the Omega Protein company which operates the ship in the Chesapeake Bay area menhaden fishery.
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