Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title/Conference
The Prindle Post
Publication Date
11-16-2020
Abstract
In the early morning hours of April 15th, 1912, the RMS Titanic, the “unsinkable” ship hit an iceberg and sunk. 1,500 passengers and crewmembers died. After the accident but before the ship sank, Jack Phillips, the chief telegraphist aboard, sent a series of distress calls on the vessel’s state-of-the art Marconi telegraph device. By these means, the Titanic was able to make contact with the Cunard liner Carpathia. Carpathia was able to save 700 of Titanic’s passengers, bringing them safely to a port in New York four days later. Many of these lives, if not all of them, would have been lost had Titanic not been equipped with the Marconi telegraph device. It has been referred to as the “voice of Titanic” for good reasons.
Recommended Citation
Robison-Green, Rachel. "Underwater Heritage? Raising Titanic’s Marconi Telegraph Device. ". The Prindle Post. https://www.prindlepost.org/2020/11/underwater-heritage-raising-titanics-marconi-telegraph-device/
