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The Titanic famously (or infamously) used Morse code to call out in distress at the end of its final voyage. Ships at sea and the land-based stations that supported them used Morse code for ...
Anthony Hardy has a lifetime of memories after serving in the Battle of the Atlantic, including acquiring the skill of ...
which generates an automated digital emergency signal for ships in danger, replaced Morse code’s SOS—the familiar dot-dot-dot / dash-dash-dash / dot-dot-dot. Military use disappeared except in ...
Today Morse code messages are being sent from Russian bombers to their control centers, or from ships of the Baltic Fleet to their shore-based headquarters. The shortwave bands used by amateur ...
The wireless operator on board "Relief Ship Number 58" used both International Morse code and American Morse code to transmit his message: "HELP!" A naval radio station in Rhode Island received ...
On Christmas Eve, 1906, wireless operators on ships off the New England coast wondered if they'd had a religious experience. Out of the midst of Morse code dots and dashes beeping through their ...