26 February 2021 In the 50th anniversary year of the 1971 Communications Agreement between the Falkland Islands and Argentina, Penguin News spoke to a number of Falkland Islanders about their memories of that time (see Penguin News this week) among them former Radio Islands Broadcasting Station Manager Patrick Watts MBE in an exclusive article for Penguin News wrote of his thoughts and recollections. (Image: An F27 on the temporary Argentine airstrip). WHEN in late 1970 the Falkland Islands Company (FIC) announced that they would be withdrawing the small freighter/passenger (50) carrying vessel RMS Darwin, which plied monthly between the Islands and Uruguay, it was anticipated by a vast majority of the population that the British Government would automatically, and as a commitment to the Colony, provide a similar type ship to continue the service.