Wireless Operators

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New York Times	ACCUSE WIRELESS OPERATOR PHILADELPHIA, April 20---Charges were made to-day by the chief electrician of the United States scout cruiser Chester, which was sent to the aid of the Carpathia, having on board the survivors of the Titanic, that the wireless operators on board the ...	21st April 1912
New York Times	PHILLIPS FOUNTAIN READY Memorial to Titanic Operator Will Be Erected at the Battery Soon --- The fountain erected in memory of Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operrator [sic] who lost his life on the Titanic when she foundered an her maiden voyage on April ...	11th October 1914
The Times	THE TITANIC'S WIRELESS OPERATORS It has been decided to erect a memorial fountain at Godalming in memory of Mr Jack Phillips, the senior wireless operator on board the Titanic, who was a native of the town. The Mayor (Alderman E Bridger) has received letters from all par...	20th May 1912
The Evening Telegram	HAROLD BRIDE One of the Titanic Wireless Operators Who Escaped and Who Testified Before the Investigation Committee on Saturday....	22nd April 1912
Chicago Tribune	WIRELESS STORMS ISLAND Sable Island, so long the terror of transatlantic seamen, is tonight, through the agency of the wireless, the storm center of a great battle for news of the missing passengers and crew of the Titanic. The wireless sta...	18th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	THOMAS WHITELEY : WIRELESS OPERATOR DIES Philips, the first Marconi operator aboard the Titanic, stuck to his post until the last, jumped from the sinking ship, was taken aboard the life-raft and died before rescuers reached him, according to the story told here today by Thomas Whitely. ...	19th April 1912
The Toronto World	WIRELESS WORK ON A YACHT NOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME --------------------- J. G. Phillips, Who Flashed the Signals of Distress From the Titanic, Talked Several Times to Two Local Wireless Operators While Working on the Great Lakes Boat and Told of His Am...	17th April 1912
Chicago American	UNEXPLAINED FEATURES OF WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP DISASTER Whence came the wireless messages of Monday assuring the world of the rescue of passengers and crew from the Titanic without the loss of a life? What was the origin of the report—by wireless via Cape Race—that the steamer Virgi...	16th April 1912
Herald News	CALL OF TITANIC WILL GO OUT AGAIN Nearly 100 years ago, Jimmy Myrick, a 14-year-old Newfoundland boy, was one of the first people to hear RMS Titanic's late-night distress call. The transmissions from the stricken vessel and the resulting bustle of activity at the Cape Race Marconi Station that occurred after Myrick alerted the station’s wireless operators to the impending disaster will be re-enacted on April 14 as part of the 100th anniversary of the world’s most fascinating marine tragedies....	14th January 2012
The Toronto World	WIRELESS FLASHES HEARD BY TWO TORONTO OPERATORS ------------------------- Messages Sent by Ports Along the Atlantic Seaboard Are Often Caught at (sic) Local Station if the Night is Clear---Tapping of the Instrument Decipherable at T...	17th April 1912
New York Times	TO HONOR WIRELESS HEROES To Dedicate Jack Philips Titanic Memorial Fountain May 12 --- At a meeting yesterday afternoon in the Maritime Exchange, 78 Broad Street, plans were completed for the dedication of the Jack Philips Titanic memorial fountain at the base ...	1st May 1915
The Times	ROSTRON BEATS HIMSELF TO NEW YORK BY WIRELESS Page 17 Photograph sent by Wireless London to New York The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company states that when the Mauretania arrived in New York yesterday, under Captain Rostron, he found that a copy of his photograph had...	24th April 1926
	HAROLD BRIDE IN THE WIRELESS ROOM Harold Bride photographed by Fr Francis Browne in the Wireless Room of the Titanic. The ghosted image being due to a double exposure....
New York Times	NO WIRELESS ORDER TO HOLD BACK NEWS Sea Gate Operator Explains the Messages to Bride and Cottam on the Carpathia --- SHIP THEN IN THE HARBOR --- "Keep Your Mouth Shut" Not Official, but Friendly Words of One Operator to Another ---...	27th April 1912
New York Times	CONSOLE PHILLIPS'S PARENTS blurb...	21st April 1912
	MEMORIALS TO JACK PHILLIPS Phillips, John George (Jack). Chief Wireless Operator. Has perhaps the largest Titanic memorial, namely 'The Phillips Memorial Cloister', by the River Wey, covering some three acres, at Godalming, Surrey. Inscribed on the memorial stone is: 'The Cloi...
Boston Globe	PHILLIPS THE JACK BINNS Wireless Operator on Titanic formerly on James Gordon Bennett's Yacht and on Oceanic. NEW YORK. April 15. - The wireless operator on the Titanic, who sent out the SOS message when she struck the iceberg is J. G. Phillips...	16th April 1912
	MICHAEL ROGERS - 'STEWARD TO THE MARCONI DEPARTMENT' Michael Rogers was a 27 year old steward from Dublin, generally resident between voyages at the family home of Mr Thomas Harris at 13, Greenhill Avenue, Winchester. Mrs Harris had been a close friend of Michael's mother, and ...
Washington Times	DESCRIBES ASSAULT BY FRENZIED PASSENGERS NEW YORK, April 19---Wireless Operator Jack Phillips did not desert his post when the Titanic sank, but was torn from the key by a party of fear-crazed first cabin passengers, who assaulted him in an effort to take from him a big life belt he wore. ...	19th April 1912
KSPR	HAM OPERATORS SAVED LIVES ABOARD THE TITANIC When the Titanic went down almost exactly 97 years ago to the day in 1912 more than 1,500 people perished.But 706 survived, and maybe solely thanks to a Marconi radio used to signal for help....	16th April 2009
New York Times	MARCONI MAN HAD RECORD Wireless operator on Titanic Young, but a Veteran in Service --- The man who sent out the wireless call for help from the damaged Titanic was J. G. Phillips, an Englishman, 24 years old, who had been in the employ of the Marconi Compan...	16th April 1912
	HAROLD BRIDE - MARCONI RADIO OPERATOR Titanic Stories The Marconi Radio Operator's descendants visit Titanic's birthplace....	14th November 2011
New York Times	WIRELESS JOKER AT SEA Passengers of the Baltic All Stirred Up by Fake Dispatches --- When the White Star liner Baltic, in yesterday from Liverpool, was two days out of Queenstown, some one who was characterized by the officers ...	13th January 1906
Chicago American	OLYMPIC BARRED SENDING TITANIC NEWS BY WIRELESS By wireless to Glace Bay, N. S. --- Edward L. Doheny of Los Angeles, a passenger on the Olympic, says that a bulletin stating that all the Titanic passengers were safe, was po...	24th April 1912
New York Times	VINCENT ASTOR'S GRIEF Vincent Astor's Grief Pitiable ___________ Son of John Jacob offers a fortune for word of his father ___________ Vincent Astor, son of Col. John Jacob Astor, who is believed to have g...	17th April 1912
Cape Cod Today	1912: CAPE LISTENS AS TITANIC SINKS Shortly after midnight on this day in 1912, on the 13,600-ton Cunard liner Carpathia approximately 1,100 miles east of Cape Cod, wireless operator H.T. Cottam was preparing for bed after a long night of sending and receiving messages.Three hours earlier, the Carpathia's captain, Arthur H. Rostrom, alarmed by warnings from other ships of ice in the vicinity, asked Cottam what other vessels were within range of the wireless....	16th April 2009
Newark Evening News	WIRELESS FROM THE STENGELS First Direct Personal Message Received from Jersey Folk in the Disaster ---------- BOTH ON THE CARPATHIA ---------- Direct intelligence from Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Henry Stengel, of this city, now on the rescue ship Carpathia, was received h...	17th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	STORM STOPS NEWS: SABLE ISLAND COMMUNICATES BRIEFLY WITH THE CARPATHIA. Article...	18th April 1912
Surrey Advertiser and County Times	THE HEROIC WIRELESS OPERATOR The wireless operator who flashed out the terrible signal SOS, and gave the first intimation to the world of the appalling disaster to the Titanic, belongs to Farncombe, where he is well known and popular. He is Mr. John George Phillips, and his pare...	April 1912
Chicago Journal	WRECK PUTS WIRELESS STOCK UP 25 POINTS Considerable interest was directed to Marconi (American) Wireless on the curb at the opening of the stock market to-day, this issue being bullishly affected to a great extent by the sinking of the Titanic and the part that wirelss telegraphy pl...	17th April 1912
Chicago Daily News	ASKED TO MEET TWO WOMEN Green Bay, Wisconsin., April 17--A wireless message from the steamer Carpathia, received here this afternoon by V. I. Minahan, requests that he meet Mrs. W. E. Minahan and Miss Daisy Minahan at New York city on the arrival of the steamer. ...	17th April 1912
Chicago Daily Journal	PEARS, SOAPMAKER, SAFE A wireless dispatch received today by the firm of Pears, soap makers, and timed 1:20 yesterday, said merely "All well." It was unsigned but was believed to be from Thomas Pears, who with his wife was among the Titanic's pass...	16th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	TITANIC STRUCK ON CLEAR NIGHT Story of Parisian Operator Deepens Mystery of Disaster to White Star Line Warning Was Repeated Secrecy of Wireless Messages Pertaining to Wreck Maintained by Capt. Haines Halifax, N. S., April 17—...	18th April 1912
Washington Times	WIRELESS OPERATOR H. T. COTTAM	22nd April 1912
The Times	HAROLD COTTAM Obituary...	31st May 1984
Evening Bulletin	BRIDE BEING TAKEN FROM CARPATHIA Second Wireless Operator of the Titanic...	20th April 1912
Daily Home News	DR. SHANNON LOST FRIEND ON TITANIC John George Phillips, the young Englishman who was in charge of the wireless room on the ill-fated Titanic, and who paid with his life the price of his faithfulness to duty, was to have been a visitor in this city while in this country, of Dr. P. A. ...	22nd April 1912
windycitymediagroup.com	HISTORIC IDEAS FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TITANIC Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the sailing of Titanic's maiden voyage. Several destinations, tour operators and exhibition companies are getting ready. For the real deal, visit Halifax, Nova Scotia. Halifax has a rich maritime history due to its closeness to the sea and as a safe harbor to ships coming from Europe. It may come as a surprise to many that Halifax played a significant role in the recovery effort after the sinking of the Titanic. ...	25th August 2011
Chicago Record-Herald	NEWS ONLY FROM AMERICA Writing under the impression that the Titanic was saved, the newspapers call attention to the absence of any dry dock on the American seaboard large enough to accommodate such a vessel....	17th April 1912
dailymail.co.uk	TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TICKETS ORDERED FOR TITANIC CENTRE Nearly 35,000 Titanic enthusiasts have already pre-ordered tickets to tour a new £90 million visitor attraction dedicated to the doomed liner. The interest in Titanic Belfast - 400,000 are expected to pay a visit in its first year - emerged as its operators marked 100 days until Northern Ireland's largest ever tourism project opens its doors. The eye-catching building, which is made up of 3,000 aluminium panels shaped like the vessel's hull, has been built on the spot where the liner was first rolled into the water in 1911. ...	22nd December 2011
The Evening Telegram	HAROLD COTTAM Wireless Operator on the "Carpathia," who "Providentially" Caught the 'Titanic's Distress Call.'...	22nd April 1912
Godalming and District News	POST OFFICE MEMORIAL At the Godalming Post Office, where Phillips was employed as a telegraphist for three years before leaving to enter the Marconi School at Liverpool, the Postmaster (Mr. W. R. Williams), and his staff have provided a suitable memorial to their ...	4th May 1912
lisburntoday.co.uk	STRICTLY MORSE CODE FOR DANCING JUDGE LEN STRICTLY Come Dancing judge Len Goodman has paid a visit to Lisburn to learn all about Morse Code for a new documentary. Len, who is well known for his appearances on the hit BBC1 series, is currently filming a three part documentary to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. As part of the documentary, entitled ‘Titanic and Me’, Len wanted to learn all he could about Morse Code and how the radio operators on the Titanic made use of it....	28th August 2011
Brooklyn Daily Times	MRS. CORNELL SAVED? Magistrate's Wife Probably Rescued from Titanic --- BAYSIDE, April 17---News was received to-day at the home of Edward W. Apppleton, whose wife, a sister of Magistrate Robert C. Cornell, of Manhattan, and sister-in-law of Daniel W. Appl...	17th April 1912
Chicago Tribune	BRUCE HAS NO WRECK DETAILS Wireless Operator Reports He Was Unable to Get Particulars of Titanic Sinking St. Johns, N. F., April 17---The steamer Bruce, which arrived in St. John's harbor at noon on Monday and r...	18th April 1912
	THE 'TITANIC CRYSTAL SET'
Philadelphia Inquirer	PARISIAN'S WIRELESS EXPERT OFF DUTY WHEN TITANIC STRUCK BERG But for This It Is Believed the Stricken Giant's Cries for Help Would Have Been Heard in Time to Save All --------- HALIFAX, N. S., April 18.--With two expeditions on the way to search for Titani...	19th April 1912
Worcester Telegram	NAME NOT ON LIST BUT WOMAN IS SAFE The Associated Press Mrs. Edgar Meyer Wires New York That She Is Returning on Carpathia and That Her Husband Is Missing NEW YORK, April 17.- A wireless message was received today by relatives of Mrs Edgar Meyer, daughter of the late Andrew Saks, reporting ...	18th April 1912
	THE BLUE PLAQUE Blue Plaque on his old House...
Salford City Reporter	MR. ARTHUR GEE A wireless message from the Mackay Bennett published by the White Star Line in New York shows that among the bodies recovered and identified is that of Mr. Arthur Gee (who is well known at the Height) of St Annes....	16th May 1912

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