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Message: [QUOTE="Jim Currie, post: 451488, member: 144215"] Hello Gordon, And a full two cents-worth it is! Here is my 98 cents worth in reply. In 1912, Marconi messages were time in GMT from the UK out to Longitude 40 West. At that point, the Marconi men switched to New York, EST - US Eastern Standard Time. Consequently, all Marconi transmissions during the disaster were, except where otherwise indicated , timed in EST Sunday, April 14. The Cape Hatteras "copy" written for clarification at the bottom of the alleged original message form, is an almost verbatim copy of a retrospective account of the Cape Race wireless log written much later by Marconi Operator Robert Hunston who was not even on watch at the time. I quote from [URL="https://www.novascotia.ca/titanic/wireless-transcript.asp"]Titanic in Nova Scotia - Wireless Message Log[/URL]. The emphasis is mine to show the comparison with the Cape Hatteras notes along th bottom. "The Titanic Disaster as Viewed from Cape Race: [I]10:25 pm (EST) J.C R. Godwin on watch hears[B] Titanic calling C.Q.D. giving position 41.44 N 50.24 W about 380 miles SSE of Cape Race. 10:35 pm Titanic gives corrected position as 41.46N 50.14W. A matter of 5 or six miles difference. He says "have struck iceberg".[/B][/I] Conveniently(?), the original Cape Race Wireless Log was mysteriously mis-laid, or lost in a fire. I think what you are seeing is the original, illegible telegram, immediately sent by the operators, Daily and Hoskins to their head office in New York. and - along the bottom - an interpretation of it written much later. According to author James D Charlet, when the New York Office received that first notification, their superior [I] "severely chastised the senders, thinking it was a hoax. In his response, he[/I] [the head man at[I] [/I]New York[I]] said that the senders were troublemakers who were just “clogging up the lines,” and that they, [/I][the Hatteras Station[I] [/I]Operators][I] were to refrain from any further communications." [/I]If this is correct, then only one message was passed-on from Cape Hatteras to New York and there were no further communications between that station and[I] Titanic[/I] after the first one. When it was 11-25 pm EST at Cape Hatteras[I], Titanic[/I] was sending out her CQD (See [I]Mount Temple[/I] process-Verbal) Apart from the fact that the translation at the foot of it could not have been written before the Hunston copy - if you look closely at the top of the original, Hatteras form, you will see that it was written on a "sent" form - not a "received" form. My best guess is that the original Hatteras document was the one[B] sent[/B] to New York and there was no other communication made from Hatteras concerning Titanic. Consequently, this is yet another manipulation of the truth. [/QUOTE]

Verification: In which year did the Titanic sail?