First distress call transmitted — CQD, later SOS
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Phillips began sending CQD with the position worked up by Fourth Officer Boxhall: 41°46′N, 50°14′W. That position was some 13 nautical miles from where the wreck actually lies, an error that would frustrate searchers for seventy years. SOS was used later in the same sequence. The Carpathia answered; the Californian, her set closed down, did not.
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Connections · 5
- RMS Titanicconcerns
- Marconi wireless telegraphy at seaconcerns
- Jack Phillips (John George Phillips)concerns
- RMS Carpathiaconcerns
- Titanic wreck siteconcerns
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