Titanic

[Red Lead Ted]

This is what i should have searched before posting from memory, Terry.

itanic's radio callsign

Titanic was assigned the callsign MUC in January 1912. Some time after January, Titanic's callsign was changed to MGY - this was previously assigned to the US vessel Yale.

As the dominant marine radio company of the time, Marconi allocated their own callsigns, most of which began with the letter M - these basically identified a Marconi installation, regardless of its location or the country of registration of the vessel in which it was installed.

Callsign allocation was eventually standardised at the London radio conference of 1912 (post Titanic), with prefixes being allocated on an international basis. UK coast stations and ships thenceforth used the letters G or M as the first letter of their callsigns. US ships and stations used K, N and W, German stations and ships used D, Italians I, French F, etc.

[John Arton]

All the Hamilton, Bermuda flagged ships I sailed onhad their call signs starting with the letter Z, with Bermuda being a Crown territory all our sea service on board was treated by the B.O.T as the same as being on a U.K flagged vessel.
Rgds
J.A.

[j.sabourn]

That’s. When it must have stuck in my memory then. I spent over a year on each of the vessels Maratha Endeavour and the. Marathas Envoy. Both Indian ships but under the title of Maratha Steamships Bahamas Ltd. Registered in Nassau. Which believe was also a protectorate. Thanks JWS.

[vic mcclymont]

A menu from the first meal on the Titanic is expects to raise Ł100k at auction.
Vic

[Keith at Tregenna]

Disaster Strikes Aboard Titanic

On April 14, after four days of uneventful sailing, Titanic received sporadic reports of ice from other ships, but she was sailing on calm seas under a moonless, clear sky.
At about 11:30 p.m., a lookout saw an iceberg coming out of a slight haze dead ahead, then rang the warning bell and telephoned the bridge. The engines were quickly reversed and the ship was turned sharply—instead of making direct impact, Titanic seemed to graze along the side of the berg, sprinkling ice fragments on the forward deck.
Sensing no collision, the lookouts were relieved. They had no idea that the iceberg had a jagged underwater spur, which slashed a 300-foot gash in the hull below the ship’s waterline.
By the time the captain toured the damaged area with Harland and Wolff’s Thomas Andrews, five compartments were already filling with seawater, and the bow of the doomed ship was alarmingly pitched downward, allowing seawater to pour from one bulkhead into the neighboring compartment.
Andrews did a quick calculation and estimated that Titanic might remain afloat for an hour and a half, perhaps slightly more. At that point the captain, who had already instructed his wireless operator to call for help, ordered the lifeboats to be loaded.

https://www.history.com/topics/titanic

106th Anniversary of Titanic sinking to be remembered in Cobh

106th Anniversary of Titanic sinking to be remembered in Cobh | Cobh

[Keith at Tregenna]

Apparently, Artie Moore, an amateur wireless operator from Blackwood, was probably the first person to hear the distress signals from the Titanic.
In the early hours of 15 April 1912, he received a faint Morse Code signal on his homemade radio from a distance of 3000 miles.
Moore relayed the news to the police, who simply refused to believe his explanation that he could pick up a 'message in the air'. It was two days before the news officially reached the UK.
As a result of this incident, Artie was offered a scholarship to the British School of Telegraphy in London, where he came to the attention of Marconi, the 'father of wireless', who came to Gelligroes to meet Moore. Moore joined the Marconi Company, where he worked on several innovative projects and patented an early version of the sonar system of measuring ocean depths, called the Echometer. He worked at the Marconi company until his death in 1949.

[Keith at Tregenna]

"He was a fine fellow"


With more than 1500 lives lost in the sinking of Titanic, the individual impact of the disaster can be overshadowed by the catastrophic nature of the event.

The latest additions to our Titanic exhibition tell the tragic story of the effect the sinking had on one Liverpool family, through the personal objects and letters of Henry T Wilde. Read his story on the blog:

Charles Lightoller, referring to Henry Wilde in a letter in 1935 stated,
“He was a fine fellow and one for whom I had the greatest admiration.
It was frightfully hard luck on him that he should have been temporarily
transferred from the Olympic to the Titanic for just one voyage.”

Merseyside Maritime Museum “He was a fine fellow”: Henry T Wilde and Titanic – Blog, Liverpool Museums

[Keith at Tregenna]

Apparently news is breaking that:

The Titanic: The top-secret mission behind its discovery.

The search for the sunken ship was actually a front for a hunt ordered by President Ronald Reagan to find two lost Cold War submarines.

Certain more is to come on this.

K.

[Keith at Tregenna]

News video - BBC.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-...-its-discovery

Keith.