wireless operator

It has been suggested in an (admittedly poor quality) book that I am reading that John Phillips and John Durrant knew each other. Is there evidence to back up that claim? To see if it was true, I've been searching Google, but at this point have been unable to find anything. You may know more on...

New York Tribune, 11 February 1922 Original article digitized by the Library of Congress Retrieved from the Library of Congress' Chronicling America web site, Chronicling America « Library of Congress

When the Titanic sank, the wireless operator aboard the only nearby ship dozed through its distress calls. But Cyril Evans, who manned the telegraph equipment on the SS Californian, could not have saved the victims of the sinking, expert analysis has concluded...

In the 1943 Nazi German Titanic film, Jack Phillips has a pet canary which he frees during the sinking. I don't think the real Jack Phillips had a pet canary on board the Titanic, but were wireless officers allowed to have pets on board ship with them in those days?

We have learned that on board the Titanic (as perhaps with other ships of the period), many passengers, probably mostly American businessmen in First Class, sent out private telegrams from Saturday night onwards. I am interested in knowing what the regulations and financial implications (to the...

For the last 20 minutes of the tragic disaster, and about the Morse code messages sent to nearby ships on April 15th 1912. The last few messages sent to the nearby ships were as follows: "CQD, SOS. MGY (titanic) to all stations. Engine room flooded up to the boilers" And: "CQD, SOS. MGY to all...

I mean, is it known who was that man?

Probably a silly question but I find it difficult to get my head round how the ship radio actually worked. I haven’t seen any reference to a ticker tape being used for receiving messages. It is quoted that Phillips could send 39 words a minute!!! This would not be much use if the receiver wasn’t...

I am doing some 'causal' research on Phillips (and Moody), and was wondering if there are any others out there who are undertaking the same task. I've found Phillips in the census. Does anyone know his parents', specifically George Alfred Phillips, birth date? Any help would be appreciated.

I wonder if someone could explain exactly what is meant when we read that the Marconi operators weren't employed by WSL but by Marconi. I mean what the business arrangement was. Did Marconi rent the rooms and provide everything necessary? Or did WSL pay Marconi to have the extra service...

In his recent National Geographic article "Ghostwalking In Titanic" James Cameron makes this claim about Bride and Phillips: "In the soundproof Marconi room, the wireless apparatus survives, the knife switches still in the positions left by the young operators, Harold Bride and Jonathan...

My apologies if this had already been discussed previously. I came across a website that says Harold Bride's son was named John Phillip Bride and called Jack. Is it possible Bride had named his son after his colleague John George 'Jack' Phillips or was it just a coincidence?

I have a question that I cant remember the answer to and Ive searched for a few mins with no luck for the answer on here. I am looking for what Hz Titanic`s wireless system operated on as in the signal output that other ships would have heard. I thought it was 50 or 60 but when I tried it in...

From the crew signing on sheets, it appears that Phillips wage was £4.50 per month whilst Bride received just £2.2.6 per month which I understand were paid by Marconi . These amounts appear very small considering their jobs and expertise eg a turkish bath stewardess received £4 pm. Was there a...

just wondering if anyone has any recent online photos of the marconi room

Most movies depict it sounding like beeps I have imagined it sounding like clicks or buzzes. Also in a deleted scene from Titanic the Californian operator said "listen the spark their putting out" How could he hear their spark?

Am I right in thinking that the Mount Temple Marconi operator was called John Durrant? (taken from the original copy of some British Inquiry witnesses in "Titanic Voices.") Does anybody have any information on him? It is thought that he could be a relative, before our family surname was changed...

Did Jack and Harold have set times to do their job ? Did they alternate and if they did so, does anyone know of this schedule? Did they eat in the Officer's Mess with the Officers and did those who ate there have to preorder their food? If so then what happens when they've only got a half hour...

Running through a list of personel effects of Kevin Cowley, Olympic's First Wireless Operator who died aboard her in June 1929, there is among the items listed 'a housewife.' Presumably this does not mean his wife or girlfriend, but some sort of object. Unless of course wives were referred to as...

This is a question I have been wondering about for some time, and one for which I have never come up with an answer: Did Titanic's radio operators know there was a mystery ship 10 miles away, and did they try to contact it? Were they aware that the Californian should have been nearby or did...