Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, the captain of RMS Titanic stuck his head into the ship’s radio room and told the operators that the ship had struck an iceberg and they should send a call for assistance.
“Send SOS,” Harold Bride, one of the operators said to his colleague Jack Phillips. “It’s the new call and it may be your last chance to send it.”
Bride, who survived, would later tell how Phillips remained at his post, sending messages to the nearest ship, the Carpathia, even after the Titanic began to sink and the captain told them it was every man for himself. “Come quick,” said the last message. “Engine room nearly full.”
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