Titanic sending its last distress calls before telegraph room gets submerged
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Creepy how they don’t get out the last TITANIC……
For anyone else who was wondering:
>In 1904, the Marconi company suggested the use of “CQD” for a distress signal. Although generally accepted to mean, “Come Quick Danger,” that is not the case. It is a general call, “CQ,” followed by “D,” meaning distress. A strict interpretation would be “All stations, Distress.”
The Morse code adds to the eerie-ness of it. It’s all I hear but I’m imagining the sheer chaos and panic on the ship.
Sounds bad, but as they type out the “we are sinking” message, all I can think of is the commercial “what are you sinking about” from the 90s
This is…. haunting.
It’s like old timey text messages.
It’s kind of cool how the messages seem like something we’d send today because of how direct they are. Goes to show how English has evolved into being more short form and direct over the last century.
Side note for those that watched the whole thing – what’s with the Titanic calling one of the other callers “Old Man”. Also what’s with titanic asking Asian “what’s wrong with you?
He did his duty till the very end. Whoever this was, they did a fantastic job.
Wow this is chilling to listen to
One of the saddest things about this is, there was a ship very close by, but that ship had turned off their radio and stopped listening **because** Titanic was (before hitting the iceberg) blaring telegrams to New York at incredibly high power. It was physically painful to the operator on the other ship so he said fuck it and turned it off.
That ship also stopped for the night because of the iceberg danger.
They were so close that they actually saw the distress flairs from titanic. But they thought it was just fireworks (odd to conclude that, but apparently they did).
Just finished watching the whole thing. Must have been infuriating to be sending out the internationally recognized signals along with your current position from Titanic and being met multiple times with “WHAT’S THE MATTER?” and “DO YOU REQUIRE ASSISTANCE?” and “SHALL I TELL MY CAPTAIN?”. At 1:50 in the morning after having sent distress signals for over an hour and a half, the operators for Titanic have had enough and reply to the Frankfurt with “FOOL. YOU FOOL. STAND BY AND KEEP OUT. KEEP OUT.” The operator breaking from formalities at that point shows the complete desperation.
I don’t think it would have been this slow. Morse would be transmitted quite a bit faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsgEdmlUf0
How did this work? Did they have wireless communication back then or where they attached to some kind of telegraphic cable?
He did his duty till the very end. Whoever this was, they did a fantastic job.
Very interesting.
Titanic is using the callsign MGY
Cape Race is the land based radio station in Newfoundland using the callsign MCE. Titanic would have been sending messages at a steady rate normally, as shown in the two initial ones at the start.
Interesting that the rate of sending slows down considerably once they start the distress call. This would be to reduce errors.
CQD means Attention Distress. It was used before SOS. CQ on its own would just mean attention. What the Titanic is actually sending multiple times at the start of the distress is CQD DE MGY
The Frankfurt is using callsign DFT. THe Mount Temple is using callsign MLQ. Old man is a way to address someone whose name you don’t know, sent as OM. Ypiranga is using callsign DYA
Wait what?? Position was 41.46 degrees north? As in not even halfway from the equator to the north pole? How is there an iceberg there???
well? what happened?
Around 48:30, Titanic started to get a little feisty…
This is a classic case of attending a work presentation that could have just been an email
>We’re dressed in our best and are prepared to go down as gentlemen. But we would like a brandy!
There is a video “Titanic: In her own words” that is worth a listen.
[This part gets me.](https://youtu.be/KSSI8DQpvVU?t=451)
Damn that was some slow morse coding. Not impressed.