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Darkest hour for 'smallest state'Documents just de-classified by the National Archives show that at one time officials wanted to destroy the Principality of Sealand located off the Essex coast. In 1967 Roy Bates, a former Army major, took over a World War II fortress in International waters seven miles off the Essex coast and declared it an independent state. The BBC report says that newly released papers from 1978 reveal a diplomatic row with Germany and Foreign Office officials, who were so incensed that they called for the Navy to knock the 10,000 sq ft platform into the sea. Read the BBC news story at Roy Bates - Offshore station Radio Essex Wiki - Principality of Sealand
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