Titanic Calling : Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster
ISBN: 9781851243778 | 1851243771
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Pub. Date: 7/15/2012
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On the one-hundredth anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, this book tells the story of that fateful night from an unusual angle: through the many wireless communications sent to and from the ships involved and the land stations as the tragic events unfolded. Drawing on the extensive record of wireless transmissions in the Marconi Archive, Titanic Callingrecounts this legendary story the way it was first heard, beginning with the nearby SS Californian'srepeated warnings-just hours before the collision-of several large icebergs unusually far sou... MORE
| Acknowledgements | p. vi |
| Note on Transcripts | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Wireless Telegraphy and the Titanic Disaster | p. 1 |
| Procès-Verbaux | p. 69 |
| CQD and SOS Messages | p. 115 |
| ICE Messages | p. 120 |
| Official Messages | p. 128 |
| Personal Messages | p. 143 |
| Glossary | p. 155 |
| Notes | p. 159 |
| ... MORE |
Michael Hughes is Senior Archivist at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, where he catalogued the Marconi Archives. Katherine Bosworth works at Bernard Quaritch Ltd, where, she specializes in archives.
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