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Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)

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Titanic's senior wireless operator, a Marconi company employee from Farncombe, Surrey, who turned twenty-five three days before the collision. Working through a backlog of passenger telegrams on the evening of 14 April, he cut off the Californian's ice message with a curt instruction to keep out; an hour later he was transmitting CQD and SOS on Captain Smith's order and stayed at the key until the power failed. He did not survive. His junior, Harold Bride, did, and testified in New York.

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    1. Story
    2. Titanic's senior wireless operator, a Marconi company employee from Farncombe, Surrey, who turned twenty-five three days before the collision. Working through a backlog of passenger telegrams on the evening of 14 April, he cut off the Californian's ice message with a curt instruction to keep out; an hour later he was transmitting CQD and SOS on Captain Smith's order and stayed at the key until the power failed. He did not survive. His junior, Harold Bride, did, and testified in New York.
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    4. Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)
    5. Connections
    6. Marconi wireless telegraphy at sea
    7. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
    8. Californian's ice message cut off — 'keep out, I am busy'
    9. First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
    10. Titanic founders
    11. Evidence
    12. Titanic's Marconi station used call sign MGY; the operators were Marconi company employees whose principal work was passenger telegram traffic; the distress signal was sent first as CQD and subsequently as SOS.
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