- This leaf is a straight oversetting of "Sealand".
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This leaf is about a landling. For the landblock, see Sealand (Landblock). For the ethel in the Pacific, see New Sealand. |
| Firstdom of Sealand | |
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| Saying: E Mare Libertas From the Sea, Freedom | |
| Landsong E Mare Libertas | |
| Framework | Forefastening kingship |
• First
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Michael Bates |
| Staddling | |
• Boded
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2 Holimonth 1967 |
| Swathe foreheld | 0.004 tm2 (0.0015 fo mi) |
| Foreheld minthood | Sealand dollar |
| Timebelt | GMT |
sealandgov.org | |
The Firstdom of Sealand is an landling that afterspeaks HH Stronghold Roughs, an erstwhile Maunsell Sea Stronghold, in the North Sea, about 12 thousand meters off the strand of Suffolk.
Notwithstanding being logged as the world's smallest land, it sits within British turf waters and is not acknowledged by any self-standing land.
Building[]
There are seven floors each inside the two hollow stonecast siles, where the steel flatsty rests. These are split into eight rooms a sile: starting from below, there is a shootstock lair. Above it is a churchen and undercoming rooms. The sparkcrafter rooms are on the top floor. On the flatsty, there is a bathroom, a kitchen, other housings and a bladewing-landing spot.
Folkrime[]
The folkrime of Sealand afoldly inheld the Bates kindred and some friends, but no more than ten folk. Today, only one ward is on the flatsty as a betokener.
The kindred went to the English mainland years ago, mainly for health sakes. After handing plight over to Michael in 1999, Paddy Roy Bates went back to his kindred's house in Leigh-on-Sea, a fishing thorp in the Southend-on-Sea shire. The small rowhouse is now bedwelled by Michael Bates, his wife, and his children.
Bates then lived in Spany until his death on Winterfulth 9, 2012.
Yore[]
In 1943, the Oned Kingdom crafted HH Stronghold Roughs as a Maunsel Sea Stronghold mainly to shield key shipping lanes by the floodmouths against the Nazi loftmight.
Settling[]
Roughs Steeple was beset in Soalmonth and Weedmonth 1965 by Jack Moore and his daughter Jane on behalf of the swindle-stand Wonderful Radio London.
On 2 Holimonth 1967, Thane Paddy Roy Bates beset the stronghold and kicked out camping broadcasters to start Radio Essex, but never began broadcasting. Bates then boded the freedom of the Roughs Steeple as the Firstdom of Sealand.
In 1968, Bates' son, Michael Bates, fanded to frighten away British workmen by firing warning shots. Bates was sent to the doomern in England on the ledger of fireweapons, but since the flatsty was outside of British bounds, which is beyond the 3-shipmile bounds of the turfwaters, the sake did not go on.
In 1975, Bates set forth a forefastening, a theedish flag, a landsong, a minthood, and farefords.
Uprising[]
In Weedmonth 1978, Alexander Achenbach, who foreheld to be the Firstthane, hired manifold Theech and Netherlandish hirelings to steer a strike upon Sealand while Bates was still in England. Achenbach unthwore with Bates on wending Sealand into a gole yeasthouse and bethouse with Theech and Netherlandish businessmen. They stormed the flatsty and took Michael Bates as yisel, who took back Sealand and kidnapped Achenbach and the hirelings with the weapons kept on the flatsty.
Achenbach was onclawed with forrede against Sealand and was held as yisel for 75,000 DM (more than 35,000 ORD or 23,000 GBP). Theechland then sent a errandrake from its London bodeship to Sealand to moot for Achenbach. Roy Bates softened up after manifold mootings and foreheld that the errandrake's underseech was in deed bewise of acknowledge of Sealand by Theechland.
Achenbach and Gernot Pütz staddled a lawmoot in wrack, sometimes known as the Sealand Uprising Lawmoot, In Theechland.
In 1987, the Oned Kingdom stretched its turfwaters to 12 shipmiles. Sealand is now in British waters.
Fareford withdrawal[]
In 1997, Sealand withdrew all its farefords stretching from 22 years ago owing to the unearthing that a worldwide geldwash brooked fake Sealand farefords to geld libhandle and geldwash from Russland and Iraq. There were thought to be about 150,000 in umflow. The ringleaders, grounded in Motherea and with sundry ties in Theechland, inholding the Sealand Uprising Lawmoot, brooked fake Sealandish mootcraftish orcheaseness and leavevats. They were said to have sold 4,000 fake farefords to Duftforders for about $1,000 each.
2006 fire[]
On the afternoon of 23 Erelithe 2006, the top flatsty of Roughs Steeple laught on fire owing to a sparkly shortcoming. A Queenly Loftmight redd bladewing sent one folk to Ipswich leechhouse. The Harwich lifeboat stood by the Roughs Steeple until a steadly fire tug put the fire out. All shends were edstelled by Bloodmonth 2006.
Fanded sales[]
In Afteryule 2007, The Pirate Bay fanded to buy Sealand as a new seat of bedrives owing to harsh twinright metes in Sweden. Between 2007 and 2010, Sealand was bequeathed for sale through InmoNaranja, a Spanish landhold business, for the worth of €750 twisand (£600 twisand, OR$906 twisand).
Roy Bates' death[]
Michael Bates
Roy Bates died at the eld of 91 on 9 Winterfulth 2012. He had been quilming from Alzheimer's coath for manifold years. He was nexted by his son Michael as byrede of Sealand. He lives in Suffolk, where he and his sons run a kindred fishing business called Fruits of the Sea. Joan Bates, Roy Bates' wife, died in an Essex plaughhome at eld 86 on 10 Rethmonth 2016.
Shirelore[]
Lawful rank[]
Landsheet of Sealand with foreheld turfwaters
Sealand's foreheld freedom is grounded on how the Roughs Steeple was outside of any homelandish ledered.
However in 1987 when Briten stretched its turfwaters from 3 to 12 shipmiles, Sealand became inheld in British turfwaters. The Oned Theeds Wone on the Law of the Sea, in strength since 1994, bodes: "Manmade ilands, instellings and buildings do not own the rank of ilands. They have no turfly sea of their own, and their neighwist does not awork the offmark of the turfly sea, the outshutting wealthdom swath or the worlddeal shelf."
Wield[]
Roy Bates gilded himself "First Roy" and his wife "First Joan". Their son is known as "His Kingly Highness First Michael" and has been hinted to as the "First byrede" by the Bates kindred since 1999. In this brook, he seemingly thanes as "Head of Moot" and also its "Head of Lawmoot".
Sealand's forefastening was set up in 1974. It inholds a foreword and seven write-ups. The foreword beholds Sealand's freedom, while the write-ups sundrily deal with Sealand's rank as a forefastening kingship, the strengthening of lawmoot ambight, the brook of a redely witenmoot, the brook of a redely lawful deemstow, a forbidding against the bearing of weapons unless by belongers of a "Sealand Ward", the outshutting right of the self-standing to shape fremdly thew and shift the forefastening, and the erfly fatherlinewise nexting of the kingship.
Sealand has sent "dream farefords" (as named by the Board of the Evish Onedom, which are not sound for worldwide fare, and holds the Guinness World Ledger for "the smallest swathe to lay forehold to theed rank". The name of the Sealandish landsong is the Sealandish saying. The landsong was written by Londoner Basil Simonenko, but does not have words owing to being a gleetooly song.
Lawmoot in Wrack[]
In Theechland, a team belonging to the Reichsbürger beweighing foreholds the stronghold. The team has therefore foreheld a self-aset lawmoot in wrack, grounded in the Westfalen town of Rheda-Wiedenbrück, where the main sprackstemmer Johannes Seiger lives, and on an erstwhile chicken farm in Trebbin, Brandenburg. The Bound Ledewealth of Theechland is not acknowledged by this "lawmoot in wrack" on the grounds that it was against worldwide law and fell bewhile the edforoning. Thester right-wing and witheryoudish inholds are shown on the webstead of this moot.
King Marduk[]
A Theech from Tübingen, who as "His Highness King Marduk" or "HH King Marduk I" has foreheld Sealand as deal of his kingdom since 2000. However, the firstdom has no knowledge of the "Kingdom of Marduk" and has not dealt with its byredes.
Lakes[]
Sealand football team with the Bates kindred
Sealand is not acknowledged by any worldwide laking body, and its folkrime is not enough to hold a team inheld fully of Sealanders in any team lake. Sealand foreholds reevely theedish larkers, inholding non-Sealanders. They dealnim in sundry lakes, such as curling, mingolf, football, shirming, utmost frisbee, beed football and throught, although all its teams gaintussle out of the ethel. The Sealand Theedish Football Forband is a fellow belonger of the Nouvelle Fédération-Board, a football body for unacknowledged moots and moots not belongers of FIFA. It forwields the Sealand theedish football team. In 2004, Sealand's theedish team played its first worldwide game against Åland Ilands theedish football team, drawing 2–2.
Sealand foreholds Darren Blackburn of Oaktown, Greatlake, Wickton as its first larker, who was aset in 2003. Blackburn has betokened Sealand at a rime of lake befalls.
In 2004, barrower Slader Ovlatt bore the Sealandish flag to the top of Father Icebarrow.
In 2007, Michael Martelle betokened Sealand in the Worldsye of Meedman in Narrowsland Stead, Wickton; bearing the name of Athleta Principalitas Bellatorius (Head Wyecraft Larker and Winner), Martelle won two silver arepennies, becoming the first-ever Sealand larker to show on a world sye stool.
In 2008, Sealand held a skateboarding befall with Church and East, plightered by Red Bull.
In 2009, the edquickening of the Sealand Football Forband through the Viva Worldsye was boded. Scottish writer Neil Forsyth was aset as Foresitter of the Forband. Sealand played against Wounds Islands on 5 Thrimilk 2012, losing 3–1. The team inholded showplayer Ralf Little and erstwhile Bolton Wanderers shielder Simon Charlton.
In 2009 and 2010, Sealandish teams dealnam in manifold utmost frisbee manimatches in the Oned Kingdom, Ireland and the Netherlands. They came 11th at OK theedishes in 2010.
On 22 Thrimilk 2013, the barrower Kenton Cool stowed the Sealandish flag on the peak of Barrow Everest.
In 2015, the runner Simon Messenger ran a half-fennel on Sealand as a deal of his "umb the world in 80 runs" dare.
In Weedmonth 2018, campred swimmer Richard Royal became the first folk to swim from Sealand to the mainland, in 3 stounds and 29 mints. He inwent the water from the bosun's seat and ended on Felixstowe beach. It was acknowledged as a beginning by the World Open Water Swimming Forband (WOWSF) and the British Long Stretch Swimming Forband (BLDSA). Royal was meeded a Sealand Knighthood by Atheling Michael.