Titanic Text Messages - A Streaming Log of Distress Transmissions

[***UPDATE*** The audio from 00:53 to 01:40 is incorrect. I accidentally added the wrong sound file to this section of the video. My apologies!]
I've taken all the Morse code communications I could find from the night of the Titanic disaster and turned it into streaming text. It's painfully slow by today's standards of communications as it presents at about the speed the transmissions were made that night. I've removed the "dead air" time cutting the total time from about two hours to one.
Morse code abbreviations have been included in the audio but the text is in English, for example the ship's ID code "MGY" will be heard but "TITANIC" will be read. "OM" will be heard but "OLD MAN" (meaning "buddy" or "friend") will be in the text.
I've left the code "CQD" as it's very prominent and important. This was the common international distress signal at the time and stood for "ATTENTION ALL STATIONS" (CQ) "DISTRESS" (D). Titanic was not the first to transmit an SOS but she used it also. They primarily used CQD because that was the most recognized distress signal of the time.
The log starts as the Titanic is transmitting personal telegrams for customers which are interrupted by the distress signal. It continues until the last message is transmitted. I've tried to make it as historically accurate as possible but I'm not a historian, just a Joe.

[@BrunoGamer-gf2mg]

2:17 a.m *CQD THIS IS TITANIC* 2:17 a.m *CQD THIS IS* wow thats a little sad and scary...

[@FinalLugiaGuardian]

I think that was when bride physically yanked Phillips off of the telegraph. After that last signal both of them evacuated the telegraph room and tried to make it into a Lifeboat.

[@royalcomputer3780]

@@FinalLugiaGuardian did they make it?

[@joshvan7883]

@@royalcomputer3780 Phillips died either on board or in a life boat. The three main stories of his death all contradict each other, but the likely story is he fell off ship and died on Collapsible B. Bride survived and died in 1956 at the age of 66.

[@royalcomputer3780]

@@joshvan7883 thank you

[@braydenkeel2230]

The Titanic was gone at 2:20am. three minutes after that

[@somethingsomethingdead7411]

1912 : a bunch of ships talking 2019 : a regular discord chat

[@dominospizza4386]

Your right its weird

[@dontaskmewhy8734]

i kept imagining it as adiscord server

[@Skysiah0503]

Titanic Transmission Role-Play anyone?

[@Team_Fortress2]

- Skysiah0503 - no. Just no. Fucking no. Leave.

[@gerrybakker146]

@@Team_Fortress2 someones triggerd

[@bonnierobinson3227]

His name was Jack Philips. He had just turned 25 years old. He didn’t leave his post until the radio room was flooding. Lots of comments about the bravery of this man but no mention of his name.

[@sparkplug1018]

Jack Phillips, senior wireless operator. And Harold Bride, junior wireless operator. Sadly Phillips would die that night, Bride would survive and assist his friend aboard RMS Carpathia sending messages after the rescue.

[@darul2652]

I agree he is brave but he ignored warning about iceberg earlier that day. Had he delivered the message to the bridge, Titanic would have been saved from her doomed fate.

[@TheMojaveCourier]

He failed to pass on warnings of icebergs earlier in the day.. but still I see what you mean.

[@mojavepatrol4767]

@@sparkplug1018 Also those brave crewmen attending the scotch boilers and keeping the lights and power going are never mentioned by anyone..

[@heroinboblivesagain5478]

​@@darul2652 "he ignored the warning" No. He didn't. The warning the Californian sent out was one of many he had received that night. He had relayed previous warnings to the captain.

[@mohamedabdulaal4056]

The last transmission from the Titanic came at 2:17AM. The Titanic split into two at 2:18AM and sank at 2:20AM. Jack Phillips was valiant to the very end. He is an exemplary hero.

[@johnshepard8556]

How was philips still in the rafio room if the titanic was a minute away from breaking up as the bow wouldof been completely submerged and the stern lifted out of the water so philips would not of been able to remain standing ket alone sending messages

[@JSSTyger]

​@johnshepard8556 all of that may have happened quickly

[@camillahunt3247]

You can tell by the last transmission...it was never completed.

[@mohamedabdulaal4056]

@@anmalaag1225 You clearly have no idea how radio operators spoke at that time. That was so normal for them.

[@ODonthebeat]

@@anmalaag1225 That is utterly incorrect. If you do research, you would see that language was very common among the operators, who mainly all knew each other and studied together.

[@insanem5258]

Poor guy spent his last hours repeatedly explaining to everyone what happened

[@leithesocialistyuricon8981]

Imsane M Two operators, last message was Phillips being yoinked away by Bride to find a lifeboat, Phillips died of hypothermia on a boat, Bride, survived and met his good friend aboard Carpathia who was their radio operator.

[@sebastiangonzalezschwidrow603]

@@leithesocialistyuricon8981 So when was the switch from Phillips to Bride?

[@leithesocialistyuricon8981]

Sebastian Gonzalez Schwidrowski I’m not at all familiar with how wireless communication Worked then sadly..

[@joelg83]

An issue at the time was people making their own sets and sending out fake information. I'm sure that a few people assumed at first it was something like that.

[@murph7421]

@@leithesocialistyuricon8981 Wow, thank you for that extra info.

[@MrHestichs]

I can't even believe to understand the level of frustration at play here.

[@ontledingen3348]

Or the anxiety coming through the messages.

[@kimberlyklaus7296]

Especially whenever he got a message from the Frankfurt...

[@joshuazero2277]

@@kimberlyklaus7296 What is the matter with you? We're 100 miles off.

[@centerstagestudios285]

Literally got so pissed he went “FOOL. YOU FOOL.” aka the Edwardian version of “DUMBASS I HATE YOU”

[@raf.nogueira]

Must of that is because in that time the communication was one side at time, not full duplex, so when someone is sending the other one need to be listening, and in a chaos situation imagine that, many ships trying to understand each other, the morse was just invented less then 10 years before that, these ships was one of the firsts ships in the world to use this technology.

[@Ie_Shima]

A lot of grief being thrown at the Frankfurt here. She was a small ship, under 7500 tons, and still relied on sails to make up a good portion of her limited 13 knots. She didn't have the best wireless receiver but did have a very powerful transmitter, which meant she could send messages well beyond the range she could receive them. When the first CQD from Titanic went out Frankfurt could barely hear it, she was so far away that it came out garbled and almost unreadable. The Frankfurt's wireless operator could only make out the ship posting it's position and assumed that Titanic was asking for Frankfurt's in turn, a common practice to keep ships from colliding, so he got up and went to the bridge to get their most recent reading. He missed Mount Temple's message, giving their position only 50 miles away. When he got back, he found the wireless chattering, nonstop. Wondering what the hell is going on, he posted his ship's position and asks, "What is the matter with you?" Seconds later, he was running back to the bridge to tell the captain that they need to move, a ship was sinking. He didn't receive Carpathia's message saying they are 58 miles off and making full steam. Even if he was at his post, Capathia is on the other side of Titanic, well outside Frankfurt's receiving range. All Frankfurt knows is that a ship is going down, that they are close by, and that they have a duty to respond. When he got back, transmissions were flooding in. Carpathia at 12:40 AM, only four hours away. He couldn't hear the message. Baltic at 1:15 AM, 243 miles away. Not close enough. Virginian at 1:20 AM, 170 miles away. Not close enough. All he knew was that Frankfurt was the closest ship at 120 miles and closing as fast as they can. Then, at 1:20 AM, water reached boiler room 4, forcing the stokers and engineers to abandon the room and retreat back to boiler room 3. The loss of these boilers cut steam to the dynamos powering the ship, dropping Titanic's transmitting range to below Frankfurt's receiving range. 1:23 AM was the last time Frankfurt heard from the Titanic, the liner's transmissions fading out to nothing. Olympic's exchange at 1:27 AM is the last time a ship within Frankfurt's receiving range confirms they got a response from Titanic. For the tiny German ship, this was a nightmare. Imagine hearing someone screaming for help in the distance, and as you rush to their aid, telling them to hold on, the screams just end. You were the one closest to the victim, and other people are calling out to them, but no one is telling you anything and you're only getting what you hope is half of a conversation. You don't know if someone has made it there in time, or if its already too late and you're calling out to the dead. All you can do is head east as fast as you can, begging for the victim to hold on, help is coming. For many onboard the Frankfurt, the Titanic was already gone, sunk just after Olympic's message exchange. All the little steamer can do was listen as ship after ship shouts out into the void, with no response back. Frankfurt didn't hear Titanic's message at 1:27 AM, saying that they are putting out lifeboats with women and children. Frankfurt didn't hear Titanic at 1:30 AM, saying that they are losing power and don't have much time left. Frankfurt didn't hear as the calls get more and more desperate, the engine room and boiler rooms filling with water. Frankfurt didn't hear Phillip's response to their question at 1:50 AM, only knowing that they may be the closest ship in the area. Frankfurt didn't hear the last transmission from the liner cut out at 2:17 AM as the radio room floods. Frankfurt arrived at the last position they received just after 11:00 AM. Her engines are worn out, her crew is exhausted, the galley staff is asleep at their posts surrounded by a mountain of fresh baked bread for the survivors, there are blankets and hot drinks waiting at the railings, and space has been made in every available part of the ship. All they can do is help Mount Temple and Californian collect the dead.

[@austenbin4068]

Context is a b*tch, but she's the only b*tch for me. Thank you for the post. It's excellent

[@michaeldunlop8536]

Thank you. I wish I could push this to the top of the comment section. They must have been heartbroken to arrive too late.

[@teganceebohm7668]

Jesus.

[@aviationlover3613]

Damn.

[@xmadeinwyoming]

Thank you for this. I can’t imagine what a horrifying experience that it must have been for them. Well written.

[@Sabrinajaine]

The tone changing abruptly from light-hearted messages from passengers to 'CQD THIS IS TITANIC' is gut wrenching

[@JW-zx5dr]

Ikr

[@CaptainJZH]

You can tell Phillips was in the middle of just sending passenger messages when Smith came in and gave the CQD order

[@ReveredDead]

It's because the ship was losing power. Has nothing to do with emotion or human input.

[@snowgurl21]

Horrific

[@piratesswoop725]

@@ReveredDeadThey’re talking about at the very beginning b

[@boleslawpetroski9681]

FRANKFURT TO TITANIC: HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING THE ENGINE ON AND OFF AGAIN?

[@CotyOsCA]

I’m going to hell for laughing at/with this comment.

[@sherryb6351]

@@CotyOsCA same here!

[@Morrisseys7thFriend]

JUST PUT IT IN RICE OVERNIGHT

[@AndyHappyGuy]

IT DIDNT WORK? TRY BLOWING ON IT

[@Artey86]

I laughed out loud :D

[@SteveThaGr8]

TITANIC: WE ARE SINKING!!! WE ARE SINKING!! REQUEST ASSISTANCE! PEOPLE ARE PANICKING AND DYING!! OLYMPIC: oh ok, How is the weather? TITANIC: quite calm actually.

[@leithesocialistyuricon8981]

SteveTheGreat - They were making sure they weren’t rushing into a hurricane lol

[@georgiasmith64]

"quite calm actually" reminds me of a Monte Python line from one of their shows

[@allahakbar5230]

Timestamp please

[@levinwonderland]

Rotfl

[@luciano4728]

NPC talk be like:

[@quantomic1106]

Crazy how these people were able to converse like this in dots and dashes. Their skills were phenomenal.

[@zach7948]

It surprises me that they didn't use even more shorthand. Surely "help" or "aid" are much quicker to transmit than "assistance," for example.

[@adrianbiankin]

@@zach7948they did use shorthand, just in this video, they used the entire word

[@Amrod97]

The message "CQD This is Titanic" in Morse code looked like this "CQD MGY". Full sentences are written in transcript only.

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

@@Amrod97 What does CQD mean?

[@justanotherhappyhumanist8832]

@@Amrod97 Also, how does MGY stand for “This is Titanic”? I know nothing about Morse Code.

[@LordCaledonFraszer]

Titanic's wireless set had failed that Sunday morning and was down for several hours. It needs to be said that the _only_ reason Phillips was able to send distress signals at all is because he and Bride disobeyed their written company orders. Marconi policy of the time explicitly stated that operators were not to attempt repairs on equipment under any circumstances; they were only to secure their gear and inform company offices in New York upon arrival. Defying their employer, Phillips and Bride spent those hours of down-time in the silent room troubleshooting their gear; they got the transmitter back online and even boosted it's performance a bit. They then stayed at their posts, squeezing every watt out of that transmitter they could, until their cabin began flooding. Were it not for their actions, _everyone_ aboard Titanic would have died that night; the ship would have sunk without a word, taking most of the victims with her, the others would have frozen to death in their lifeboats waiting for rescue and no one would have even suspected anything about it until she failed to arrive in New York as scheduled.

[@CardinalEgan]

Attempting repairs will void the warranty...

[@bertramusb8162]

@@CardinalEgan Next thing you know these upstart hooligans will want a raise for fixing equipment as well as operating it!

[@Brenhearts]

Where did you find this info?

[@janedoe1776]

Bureaucracy never saved anyone. What a stupid, reckless and pointless rule. Not much has changed in 110 years

[@thejakefort]

Hmmmm interesting....

[@theaidenvids]

Titanic: *literally sending messages about it sinking for hours* Frankfurt: what is the matter bruh

[@guilty_mulburry5903]

Frankfurt's operator was German, no one else could understand German morse except titanic's operator, so he had to translate then reply

[@justinthyme7275]

No one was ignorant enough to use words like bruh in those days. People were vastly more educated than today, bruh!

[@guilty_mulburry5903]

@@justinthyme7275 what the actual fuck?

[@FriedrichHerschel]

1. those arent the complete logs, but all the maker could find. Propably only the ones with somewhat precise logs. The US senate inquiry after the incident contains the testimonials of several radio operators, and those contain hints at way more that was shown here. 2. The Frankfurt did immediatly turn towards the Titanic, in fact, was one of the first ships to do so. But they were 140 nautical miles away. They managed to get there ~10 hours later, vastly exceeding their nominal top speed of ~ 10 knots ... at night and in iceberg infested waters. 3. Apart from language issues, the Titanic being vague at the beginnung and this being not the complete logs, you have to keep in mind that the tech back then wasn't that reliable over greater distances, and depended on the equipment the ships had. The US senate inquiry has testimonials, that the radio of the Frankfurt (made by Telefunken, the big competitor of the Marconi Co the Titanic had) was so strong, that some ships (afair even the Titanic itself) believed it was the closest ship. Meanwhile, the Marconi radio was weaker, and it's possible not all of Titanic signals reached the Frankfurt. "What's the matter" is more of a general "can you give an update on your situation, so we can prepare". 4. Regardless how foolish someone might come off and you may think it was justified: if I were on a boat that's sinking in the middle of an ocean, I wouldn't curse on the very people that I believe are my best chance of rescue. You can think of them any way you want, it's a different thing actually telling them.

[@justinthyme7275]

@@guilty_mulburry5903 that is the incorrect use of the word "actual", bruh!

[@sir.barnaby6328]

"CQD THIS IS-" no ending to the message. gave me chills

[@horizontoday7874]

Sir. Barnaby Phillips had left to get into the last lifeboat

[@lilvirtt3577]

The electricity gave out ant it broke in half after 1-2 minutes

[@spaghettibolognese5838]

@@neonflavored7973 But like, this legit gave me chills.

[@Mimi-py8mf]

@@neonflavored7973 ok boomer

[@billwilliamson1506]

Neon Flavored Ok boomer

[@p_filippouz]

31:50 seeing Olympic telling everyone to shut up not to jam Titanic's comunaction is actually very depressing... It felt like Olympic was treating titanic like a human sister

[@thunda7928]

The practical element of it was that the Olympic was the only one loud enough to be heard. Transmitter effectiveness correlated directly with the amount of power you were able to pump into it. Olympic and Titanic had very robust power generation capabilities for the time, so they would have been the only ones able to cut through the noise of dozens of other ships jamming each other's transmissions.

[@chipsiss7280]

this is a very late reply but this is due to the fact that the Olympic is the sister ship of the titanic.

[@p_filippouz]

@@chipsiss7280 no sh*t?

[@Ricardocomics14]

@@p_filippouz Yeah en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic

[@p_filippouz]

@@Ricardocomics14 oh my god? For real?? Who could've though?? /S

[@richieordeanidc536]

the way it goes from lighthearted messages between ships to a relatively calm distress call to pure panic and repeated SOS SOS CQD is actually so scary. in a weird way the fact that so many ships were racing to get to them even though they knew they'd never get there in time is heartwarming.

[@johnshepard8556]

Yeah i don't think anybody thought it would go down so fast even the captain was in shock when he realised the ship woukd founder in less than 3 hours i think he was in a catatonic state at that point but i don't thik many other people including the wireless room crew knew how soon the ship would sink so philips stayed for as long as he could and became one of the greatest heros of that night god rest his soul

[@Calucifer13]

I wouldn´t call it "heartwarming", and most of these ships didn´t make it in time, anyway, and some even refused to come

[@roy12525]

Heartwarming lol

[@Orly90]

@@Calucifer13 Some of them were too far away and too slow to reach her and they knew it.

[@zenphire]

It’s even sadder when the first message isn’t even a distress call, it’s a message about coming to New York :(

[@ReportsOnChina]

Cocoawhirl They were sending messages on behalf of passengers.

[@shape-shiftingcatandhermin2508]

Chilling that the words used were "will be with you in spirit" too given that passenger could have been one of those that died

[@sturmovik5448]

Makes you wonder if the sender was alive a few hours later. But, if not, that would be a pretty good final message to a loved one.

[@jeremyud]

@@sturmovik5448 I think it was likely a woman sending a message to a male friend in New York, so there's a chance she made it. Women had a 73 percent chance of making it.

[@noobplayerbr388]

You have now 666 likes

[@queenfan45]

The saddest part is that clearly everyone is racing to the Titanic to help, yet they were all too far. It could have been the greatest rescue at sea of all time, but instead it was the greatest disaster.

[@krashd]

The greatest disaster at sea was the Wilhelm Gustloff with 6x the casualties of Titanic.

[@CalcifersKeeper]

Frankfurt fucking thought it was a joke.

[@YabaiModding]

@@CalcifersKeeper Frankfurt had a german operator, they couldn't understand english.

[@CalcifersKeeper]

@@YabaiModding That's a real problem. The more and more I've done research about the titanic over the years, it seemed like when the Captain gave the orders 'woman and children' the crew got confused and thought he meant *only* women and children. The whole tragedy is terrifying to think about. Edit: Especially all the life boats that were half full and half empty. I couldn't imagine the feeling those people felt that were told they couldn't be put into a life boat.

[@TheTrueAdept]

@@Anna74308 the thing was that the Californian was NOT 20 miles out, it was greater than that but people believe that bullshit because of reports of lights off starboard. There was a weather phenomenon at work that night that screwed with the human perception of the horizon. In addition to that, the Californian was NOT under steam at the time, it was on standby and that required an hour of preparation and work to get under steam again...

[@actioncom2748]

God bless the guy from Cape Race. He's obviously monitoring the channels and listening to the message's going out. When he thinks one of Titanic's messages has not gotten through, he repeats it on his own to make sure everyone heard it.

[@frumentarii376]

At the beginning the guy at Cape Race manning the radio was a 14 year old apprentice

[@Laueee95]

Must have been traumatic to hear Titanic's voice calling out for help and learning that she lost 50% of her capacity that night.

[@ryanhampson673]

Cape Race’s transmitter was probably the most powerful out of everything since it was land based. Relaying messages is still something we do today, I’m a pilot and sometimes other aircraft have to relay a message from ATC to you if you are out of range.

[@actioncom2748]

@@ryanhampson673 It wasn't so much the power of Cape Race, it was the fact that Titanic's Power was slowly slipping off. As each Boiler Room flooded out, the Transmitter became less and less powerful. There's a great documentary by National Geographic talking about the electricians on for the Titanic. They had to rewire the system as she sank to make sure the lights and the transmitters kept going. Imagine being The Tech Guy on a sinking ship.

[@shadowpoet4398]

Wow.... May the Omnissiah usher him into the Emperor's eternal peace, as a warrior has arrived 😞

[@sorenpx]

What's most heartening about this is that the entire nautical community stopped what they were doing and started trying to help.

[@total_epicness6776]

However they were sadly too far to reach them in time (or clueless like the frankfurt)

[@blackopscw7913]

@@total_epicness6776 Frankfurt was having problems that night with her mast which will add to any signal sent to her being just in audible therefore she was racing to Titanic without knowing if there was a problem which is quite heroic

[@PolarizedMechs]

That's pretty much the way it is at sea. If someone's in trouble, everyone drops everything to go and help. Nationalities don't matter when that happens.

[@hobomike6935]

@@PolarizedMechs your country becomes your ship out there on the high seas lol

[@hobomike6935]

At least the Carpathia's unending pursuit of the Titanic paid off, and they rescued the few survivors left. if everyone had dismissed it as "probably not _too_ serious the way the _californian_ did, no one would have survived

[@paulbaker8734]

TITANIC: WE ARE SINKING FRANKFURT: VOT IS IT YOU ARE SINKING ABOUT?

[@marcusfossa6695]

lmfao how does this comment not have more likes?

[@bobrvrvrvrv]

Marcus Fossa cause it’s a shite joke

[@LordAmerican]

TITANIC: WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. TITANIC: WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. TITANIC: WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. TITANIC: WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. TITANIC: WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. TITANIC: WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. OTHER SHIPS: TITANIC HAS STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. CAPES: TITANIC HAS STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. CAPES: TITANIC HAS STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. CAPES: TITANIC HAS STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. OTHER SHIPS: TITANIC HAS STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. TITANIC: WE HAVE STRUCK AN ICEBERG AND SINKING. INTERNET EXPLOR-er, I mean FRANKFURT: FRANKFURT TO TITANIC. WHAT IS WRONG?

[@entity972inc.2]

@@LordAmerican No.

[@Tr0nNick]

@damnedlazern no what he is saying is true. You said White people with an annoyed emoji. You expressed how annoyed you are at white people. That is the definition of racism. Here the definition says , "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior" Your little comment plainly states the definition above. So dont calling people stereotypical when we dont see stereotypes. What we see are facts from your text. Think smarter not harder.

[@lenglain]

KZbin is truly amazing. To be able to sit down in your underwear and experience something like this is unreal

[@ekarizkykhalimi3143]

Ikr this is saddening

[@cilan9639]

This comment made me laugh 😂

[@thebrantfordrailfan]

That is literally what i am doing right now lol!

[@thecustodian8426]

fck off youu 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Mr.Obongo]

It’s bittersweet

[@oxygenbreather1]

“CQD THIS IS-“ the unfinished sentence is so eerie

[@salivatinggreed4219]

Starting at 30:31 I don't know why but Olympic's request to "STOP TALKING" due to jammed signals is morbidly amusing to me. It's like telling a room of panicked people to "just shut UP! everyone!" so they can hear Titanic. Reminds me of an elementary school classroom.

[@HANKSANDY69420]

Or a Discord mod when the chat blows up

[@tomemeornottomeme1864]

@@HANKSANDY69420 Go outside.

[@tildawoof7]

This must have been frustrating to keep sending the same stuff and having no one understand you when you are about to die.

[@auroraborealis8229]

The titanic said to the Frankford “ FOOL.YOU FOOL.” Etc

[@MrYouarethecancer]

@Abcity Frankfurt turned around almost immediately and exceeded safe speeds. They were simply too far away.

[@ky5657]

oh wow 666 like

[@SuAva]

The captain of the Californian was just a dick, tho

[@juanp2664]

Suzanne The operator of the Californian was asleep even tho earlier the Titanic operator told him to shut up (they were 20 miles away and did not see Titanic)

[@rdvgrd6]

the next day: FRANKFURT TO TITANIC: BUT WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU?

[@keenbean8428]

i laughed outloud

[@ChronoStar]

You'd think that with how long it takes for these messages to send, they'd write something down!

[@neglesaks]

Lag kills you every time, be it 1912 or 2012.

[@bernihautzi1604]

Titanic: ...

[@AA-bs3iy]

Frankfurt to titanic What's your fucking problem

[@phoenyxashes2064]

For 1912 this type of communication is mind blowing.

[@zach7948]

It reminds me of sending text messages on flip phones, one letter at a time, in the early 2000's.

[@CiRdy34]

Exactly what I thought

[@understatedwalrus]

What always grabbed me is that the radio set had broken during the voyage, and, against company orders that only technicians in port were allowed to service the set, Philips and Bride had stayed up all night and actually managed to fix it. If they'd followed company rules, there would've been no working wireless that night, and nobody would've known that anything had even gone wrong until days later when Titanic didn't show up in NY. Titanic would've just disappeared without a trace somewhere in the Atlantic, and every so often for the next couple years someone would have come across a lifeboat or two full of frozen corpses. Every single person who survived is because they broke the rules and got the set working.

[@spaceoddity3958]

There is no doubt they went well beyond to help save life's that awful night. Yet, they maybe could of saved everyone if they had done their duty correctly and passed on the ice berg warning to the bridge hours before disaster.

[@chocothebananacat7686]

​@@spaceoddity3958They had already sent multiple ice warnings to the bridge that day. The Captain was aware they were heading into an ice field. Even if he had passed them on, it is unlikely it would have made any difference as all the procedures for ice were already in place.

[@karlosskrak]

Absolute heroes

[@yiman7370]

If this would have happened today... they'd definitely still not have the set working cuz today most people r like sheep, doing whatever a policy says

[@CapCrunch45]

They invoked their “right to repair” before right to repair became thing. And they made a difference.

[@AlmaMarie333]

Frankfurt is the definition “a bit confused but got the spirit”

[@savantianprince]

The Frankfurt was a German ship. Using German technology of the day. Titanic used Marconi telegraphy which is different from what the Frankfurt was using.

[@AlmaMarie333]

Kim Lowe I’m aware. It’s a joke.

[@Feliday]

lol. but to be serious, there might have been a language barrier and the messages were too complicated to understand. especially at night where everyone is tired.

[@AlmaMarie333]

Feliday Yeah I know, I just said it for the sake of the joke.

[@tlabang83]

I wonder which person had to live with being called a Fool in this tragedy. Dang.. self esteem killer:/

[@snowflake09161]

you can _see_ the operator slowly becoming more panicked over time. that’s scary

[@sophiaredwood5825]

~LuigiFan~ This whole video is terrifying

[@Sea-zu4bj]

Very eery. I would have liked to be an operator back then but no onboard the titanic

[@adaharrisonn]

Cause everyone was replying so god damn obliviously and doing next to nothing about it

[@Kromaatikse]

@@adaharrisonn Well, Frankfurt seemed to be. Several other ships set course and put on speed, but it's hard to cover 100+ miles of ocean quickly in a ship that'll only make 15 knots on a good day. Many of the messages were about ascertaining the situation and the conditions likely to be found on arrival, so they could prepare. *Carpathia* was particularly notable. She was 58 nautical miles away from the disaster on first receiving the CQD call, and covered the distance in 3.5 hours, an average speed of 16.5 knots - remarkable for a ship whose normal service speed was 14 knots and her *sea trials* speed was just 15.5 knots. This was achieved by double-manning the boilers (which were coal fired, so needed men with shovels) and cutting off heating to the cabins. This made her the first ship on scene, an hour and a half after Titanic sank.

[@adaharrisonn]

@@Kromaatikse yeah, the carpathia was the real mvp. You can tell they truly dropped everything to go aid titanic and pushed themselves to the limit to get there in time. Or try to :'(

[@cellocat-sm8lx]

Olympic was such an underrated big sister. Telling everyone to be quiet so her crew could hear her sister's distress calls, and being 500 miles away yet still rushing in to help in any way she could. May the memory of those who died that terrible night and the memory of those who tried to help be eternal ❤️

[@LumpyAdams]

How the fuck can a ship be sO unDerRateD lol.. goddamn.

[@robinhoodwinker8621]

Good old Gen Z

[@insomniac9933]

​@@LumpyAdamsnot as many people tell her tale or even appreciate her. Most focus is on the sinking itself and not the rescue

[@craigusselman546]

They should make a movie about the Olympia and it's exploits

[@ezekiel440]

@@insomniac9933but the olympic did not initiate the rescue.

[@sonnestrasza2149]

It was insanely loud on the sinking Titanic, so it was extremely difficult to hear the beeps as is. Also, imagine having to listen carefully and translate beeps into words during this crisis. Jack was doing this until the last possible second.

[@FlatEarthKiller]

Jack wasn’t there. James cameron’s movie is inaccurate.

[@FlatEarthKiller]

Though Jack Philipps existed

[@sergeantdornan7000]

​@@FlatEarthKillerpretty sure they meant Jack Phillips

[@FlatEarthKiller]

@@sergeantdornan7000 yes, that was me obsessed with titanic, now im obsessed with flat earth killing

[@zanotellitb5457]

​@@FlatEarthKillerlmao, at least you were honest

[@JayDeeDonuts]

the last 20 mins kinda got me sad the man spent his last moments typing. even though he was offered a life boat. this is a true man.

[@KCU_Unfiltered]

He was bout the only means for communication for help. All those people needed help. True hero indeed.

[@PrinceJes]

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. John 15:13

[@edenburger5847]

Miguel Torres no the person who survived was Harold Bride, the person typing and in charge was Jack Phillips he made it to the boat but died of hypothermia

[@Taketheshot56]

Man the most heartbreaking part is when the Olympic told everyone to shut up and tried to talk to her sister ship for a final time. Unable to help being just too far away.

[@yuliap4135]

What time is that at?

[@amvanime3556]

Peanut Butter 31:00

[@yuliap4135]

@@amvanime3556 Thank you

[@cloud.zero.]

@@amvanime3556 was actually 32:00

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Yeah that hit hard, the Captain would have been stoked that another company ship was on the way so they might have at least some co-ordination.

[@CallmeJAYNE]

Feels like i just watched a chaotic WhatsApp group chat. Titanic pleading for help, Californian sleeping through the whole thing, Olympic telling all stations to stfu and poor Frankfurt getting yelled at even though it was the first to respond. This so heartwrenching.

[@aponisuka]

Would be so cool to see an animation of this. Like using an ocean map like where they are exactly in the ocean while communicating with each other and racing against time to reach Titanic.

[@braydenwildey3366]

This would be amazing! Someone please make this.

[@themightyangustma2753]

Might give it a go, sorry don’t do this kind of thing, would it be okay if I used his audio?

[@klotz__]

Here are some maps of all the vessels in the area: paulleeXcom7titanic7pvXphp (replace X with dot and / with slash)

[@themightyangustma2753]

@@klotz__ Thanks mate!

[@finhz]

​@@themightyangustma2753Good luck

[@winter0710]

Titanic: *sending messages about sinking for hours on end* Frankfurt: do ya’ll hear sumn?

[@Adamdidit]

that was actually the exact issue......titanic's messages werent getting through for long periods of time

[@senatorarmstrong8960]

The Frankfurt was a small steamboat with a shitty reciever, which is why the operator had no fuckin idea what was happening. They could barely hear anything

[@Bill23799]

The boilers had to release steam pressure building up or they would explode. It made a very loud shrieking noise and that's what the radio operator means when he says can not hear you because of steam noise.

[@Halalhurricane]

I thought can hear nothing of noise of steam mentioned the steam being fine

[@QuintinKerby]

For those of you not acquainted with history, the steam he was referring to was actually high pressure, high temperature water vapor, and not the gaming platform.

[@John-bx2vm]

@@QuintinKerby Are you sure? that note that plays when tf2 launches is kinda loud

[@Bananoker]

THIS IS TITANIC, CAPTAIN IS BROWSING STEAM. OLD COMPUTER NOISES TOO LOUD. CQD CQD CQD

[@Bananoker]

I know there was no computers in 1912

[@aster_angel]

The way the formal communications were replaced to panicked and rushed ones were heartbreaking. 😭

[@JitJit-ESPI]

Carpathia to Titanic: We are coming your way coming at full speed doing 15 knots. Hats off to Capt. Rostron and all the Carpathian crew on that fateful night.

[@ganymede12283]

👏

[@sirboomsalot4902]

It's been suspected that they may have been able to get her up to 17 knots depending on who's calculating how far she went in what time.

[@TheCubicplanet]

The legend says that Frankfurt's radio operator's grandchildren, still send radio messages asking Titanic what is the matter.

[@andreascovano7742]

"titanic from the bottom of the sea: Fuck off, you brainlets"

[@Halalhurricane]

Frankfurt is like nvm they sinking but won't tell me why

[@Cthight]

"Are you coming to our assistance". Frankfurt just like whats the matter. I would cry out in despair in such a situation. Death is near and they dont get it that its really serious.

[@potato7617]

I think the titanic was better off without the frankfurt, they probably would've rammed the titanic

[@FriedrichHerschel]

The Frankfurt did immediatly turn towards the Titanic, exceeding their rated maximum speed by 15% at night in iceberg infested waters. They were just too far away to get there in time.

[@jflsdknf]

The way Titanic and Carpathia called each other Old Man, the two operators must have been friends :'(

[@drwmink]

You're absolutely correct. Harold Bride, the junior operator on the Titanic was friends with Harold Cottam, the operator on the Carpathia. Harold Bride survived by holding onto an overturned, unlaunched lifeboat. He was reunited with his friend on the Carpathia and assisted survivors getting messages to loved ones.

[@CodexArgenteus]

I loved that - added so much realism to it! It was a sweet moment in an otherwise terrible experience. You could tell it's just two buds chatting.

[@hopel4822]

Old Man was common wireless slang at the time since it was tapped out as only "OM"

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

stirling OM is a normal greeting in Morse code. It’s their equivalent to “buddy” or “pal” or “dude”.

[@shizu-chan3942]

@@drwmink thank God he survived. Thank god. He worked so hard and selflessly. Thank GOD.

[@avavulpes9106]

Kinda made me cry. Imagine being alone in the darkness of the ocean, realizing your ship is sinking and hoping that these little beeps in your ear will manifest in aid for the lives on your vessel.

[@FoolioBeardy]

well said

[@bio_5467]

48:20 I can’t imagine just how frustrated he must of been hearing that message after spending hours frantically sending out messages

[@mattybob12310]

What this doesn't give you, is the sense of range, Frankfurt had a powerful emitter but a poor receiver, she could talk to Titanic but they couldn't hear her responses, so all they knew is that someone was in trouble and they were making best speed for the location, Frankfurt was an old ship that still relied on sails for a good portion of her speed. Frankfurt's radio man left to get their own position to reply to Titanic (misunderstanding), and when he got back all hell had broken loose on the channel and he could no longer hear Titanic as her range was dampened by lack of electricity to the communications equipment. A lot of Titanic's messages after 01:30AM are being heard by no-one. Frankfurt arrived the next day all ready to receive Titanic's stricken passengers but all they could do was help sift through the Dead, after making full speed all night.

[@IgKravenchenko]

we're sinking frankfurt: u wot m8?

[@goldi955]

Language barrier

[@3brendan933]

we are a sinking ship!! you're a whot???

[@joshuazero2277]

Frankfurt was a German boat, English and European Morse code are different so they needed translators. Took awhile to understand each other.

[@ereder1476]

@@goldi955 stop with that BS of language barrier, SOS and CQD are interational term, same with the position

[@joshuazero2277]

@@ereder1476 CQD wasn't international. SOS was, even so they still need to know what is going on

[@litlpupup]

*”Don’t you hear Olympic calling you?”* Why did that give me chills

[@kobaltteal7139]

Maybe Cos Olympic was Calling her younger Sister to see whats up.

[@neilwiseman6129]

@Abcity Phillips couldn't hear due to the roar of steam from the boilers being released.

[@thebitsanpiecesman4423]

Shocking that all of Olympics boilers weren't lit

[@ph89787]

@@thebitsanpiecesman4423 Even if they were. Olympic could have only sped up to 24 knots. Which was 2 knots slower than the Mauritania.

[@brette6854]

I don't know

[@caffplays]

0:51 - This part hurts hard my soul; Titanic:"weather delightful. Feeling fine. Hope all... "

[@people6117]

“Dining with you in spirit tonight” broke me man. They had no idea.

[@yummyEnchilada]

Olympic to Titanic: Hey! what weather have you been having? Titanic to Olympic: OUR ENGINES ARE BEING FLOODED

[@CodexArgenteus]

Probably wanted to know the reason for the flooding; probably Olympic assumed maybe a major swell or something? Olympic was a fair ways away at the time and Titanic was considered unsinkable so to then say the weather is calm and clear would have definitely freaked everyone out!

[@midnightstar4066]

yeah also they would need to know what the weather was for when they got there so they could take necessary measures to keep their own passengers safe during the rescue attempt.

[@TheKonga88]

@@CodexArgenteus Oh right, after Titanic had said a hundred times we've hit a berg.. 😂😂😂😂😂😂⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️⛴️🏃🏃🏃🚢🚢🚢🚢This why when I travel, only drive or take my bike so I don't have my life in the hands of incompetent retards. 🏃🏃🏃

[@ThatDangerousWolf]

Kunta Kinte They would need to know if it were storming so they could be prepared.

[@shawnk8685]

@Kunta Kinte so instead you put your life in the hands of the highway designers

[@absue]

The Titanic was considered one of the safest ships afloat at that time. It's possible that people on the other ships had difficulty accepting that the problem was serious until the Titanic reported putting passengers into the lifeboats.

[@dracos0024]

Didn't it sink on its first voyage, though? Did people really put so much stock into just it allegedly being unsinkable despite never having made a trip before?

[@alienkeef6488]

Dracos002 yeah it did but everyone was so confident that it would make sense if the other ships didn’t actually understand the severity. This was the early 1900s after all. Based off the answers the other ships were giving, they really didn’t seem to understand.

[@oggeenock]

Dracos002 I don’t think you quite understand the situation an era. The safety features on Titanic were the absolute best of it’s time. Made by debatably the biggest shipping line in the world tigether with the Cunard lines. The unsinkability of it was also backed up by it’s nearly identical sister Olympic surviving a collision with the MS Hawke some time before. It could survive almost every hypothetical scenario possible. It was incredible what actually happened, with the smallest chance imaginable. There were also so many small factors that didn’t seem a big problem on it’s own, but it all added up. The coal fire the couple days before, the fact that the lookouts didn’t have any binoculars, the huge ice field which Titanic had already changed course to avoid, not to mention the very unlucky collision and damage caused by the iceberg, it was a cocktail effect of many small factors.

[@lorefreak94]

Titanics twin Olympic had made the passage many times and is what lead many to believe that series of ships were invincible

[@scottwhitley3392]

It’s a myth that people thought the ship was unsinkable, that was a marketing ploy created by white star line to sell tickets

[@DKrueger1994]

Wireless Call Signs: MGY - Titanic MPA - Carpathia MCE - Cape Race MWL - Californian DYA - Ypiranga DFT - Frankfurt SPCJ - Mount Temple MKC - Olympic SBA - Birma MRA - Caronia MBC - Baltic MGN - Virginian MKL - Asian

[@nathanviebranz9111]

“Fool. You fool! Stand by. Stand by. Stand by and keep out! Keep out!” That message to Frankfurt was unspoken by a human voice. However, the anger and desperate frustration behind it as Phillips’ ship was quickly dropping from underneath him, knowing the situation was deteriorating and that his short life was likely coming to an end along with many others, makes his emotions in that moment quite palpable even through coded messages and text.

[@EliottSontot]

The end is absolutely terrifying when you realize the last message ever sent by the Titanic wasn't even completed - they probably didn't have time to finish the message as water was coming inside the wireless room.

[@bloom9075]

the ship was starting to split after they sent that at 2:17 and it split in half completely at 2:20

[@CharGorilla]

It's unlikely that the radio room filling with water was the cause. At the time they used Marconi Spark Gap transmitters, which needed quite a bit of power to operate (and sounded nothing like the clean beeps you hear here). Most probably the electrical supply failed long before water reached the bridge.

[@EliottSontot]

Doesn't seems unlikely when you consider water would have been rushing through the boat deck around 2:10am, making it logical the wireless room would be flooded around 2:15am or so. From the moment water flooded the upper decks (B, A and finally, Boat Deck), Titanic sank much faster, which is logical considering the amount of water that was inside the whole ship at this time. But it might also be an electrical supply failure as well for the same reasons too, in fact we'll never know for sure why this last message was never completed; either because of water or power decrease.

[@Daag]

Hello. There is a story about the two operators. The one that signalled for the most part died, and the other one survived. The surviving one recalled that he had to drag the other operator away from the communication system, because the main operator insisted on continuing to communicate to the other ships and send for help, which is probaby why the transmissions actually stopped. The one that died was named John George Phillips. I Recommend reading his wikipedia article, it's very interesting. Sorry if i type unclear, english is not my first language.

[@Amperzand]

@Tyler Jolly the marconi equipment was wireless. Because the transmissions crossed oceans ...without wires! Did you think there were wires across oceans thousands of miles long?!!

[@flargmuffin92]

Legend has it "Frankfurt" is still out there, aimlessly searching and wondering "What's the matter?!"

[@yeah9305]

I JUST SHRIEKED AHAHAHA

[@haleynic]

lmao

[@bababooey6521]

Replace “what” with “vhat”

[@ariana3073]

Frankfurt is a german City xD

[@benebene229]

Frankfurt is a city in germany 🤓

[@joulskafilms8815]

I know this is really tragic and it should be taken seriously but I find it kinda funny that at one point all the transmissions get jammed and Olympic just says “STOP TALKING.” 😭😭

[@kobodas]

roblox chat fr

[@Lulu-pd1zb]

That is pretty funny 😂🙂

[@amy.ilcsfm]

Right 💀

[@richardparker2555]

I thought the opposite. That part was horrifying because it showed how desperate everyone one was getting and that panic was starting to get hold of them as each ship realize they weren't going to make in time. The frantic beeping only madie it more anxiety inducing

[@WindowsDrawer]

​@@AsoGamer33Stfu

[@jacobrutty1109]

Imagine how fast time flies when you're as busy and panicked as Philips increasingly was. Suddenly there's water coming into the room and the ship breaks up minutes later. That's the scariest part of the Titanic for me. The people left aboard had legit minutes to react once all doubt was removed near the end.

[@sparkplug1018]

While the actual time was minutes, the passengers and crew experienced it the exact opposite. Harold Bride and Jack Phillips likely felt like they'd spent days hammering out those messages, time from your perspective just freezes, events that take literal minutes feel like hours. If you've never experienced it, looking back at the event it is an incredibly unsettling feeling.

[@minecraftkid50978]

Those first messages "dining with you in spirit!" Oh how terribly right he was

[@alinaknox5773]

Bilbio Baggones it was a lady

[@youneszadi2332]

"CQD THIS IS....", can't imagine what a moment like that would be like

[@leithesocialistyuricon8981]

YOUNES ZADI One of the radio operators was yoinked from post just in time by his fellow operator, one died in 1956, one died of hypothermia in a life boat.

[@Sarastarlight100]

@Smokes McGee I agree.

[@killiakakinnet9071]

​@@leithesocialistyuricon8981Harold Bride died of lung cancer in 1956, Jack Phillips was the one who was torn away from his station and died that night.

[@robmemeoverlord6399]

Every time they say “Old man” I feel sad. It’s very endearing and almost hopeful, like “Hang in there old man were coming to the rescue, hang on!”. But they were too late ):

[@Larpushka]

Morse code abbreviation, I don't think it's meant as endearing but saves time in communication

[@ThePointlessBox_]

Old man is a morse code abbreviation, it refers to the operator so you dont need to type out names etc. They wouldnt spell out ''old man'' but just type out ''OM''

[@phillyedhrj]

The band conditions must have been rough.

[@phillyedhrj]

Female operators are called YLs (Young Ladies)

[@patrickmurphy3632]

The fact that they all worked so hard (all of them) makes me cry. Especially to the ships trying to stay in contact and telling Titanic to stay with them. Lots of people tried to help. They were just too far.

[@emimoon1712]

WEATHER DELIGHTFUL. FEELING FINE. HOPE ALL WAIT NVM SEND HELP

[@andmos1001]

Thats emergency Messages for you. It will ignore every single personal Messages to get across

[@user-ge4uk9ui8y]

that was a civilian telegram to george simund, new york by another passenger. it wasn't made by the titanic crew.

[@squares4u]

Marissa Lopes Isn’t that a personal message from Titanic?

[@Sarah.Riedel]

So, "civilian messages" still had to go through the Titanic's telegraph operator who would transcribe it from the written text - the passenger cabins didn't have their own Morse Code stations. The operator was in the middle of sending George Sigmund's message when the impact happened and he immediately began transmitting a distress call.

[@joshuazero2277]

@@Sarah.Riedel they struck the Berg an hour before. The captian didn't think it was that serious until an hour later

[@Jhonnyace]

For those wondering, Titanic sent out those V's to test the signal after starting to use emergency power.

[@OctoLink-qs3kg]

So he DID took Virginian's advice, good to know!

[@youtubecensors5419]

Thought it was old timey emoji for "going down".

[@dogestranding5047]

V

[@urfavoritegay4640]

what time 😂

[@yoyoliu6240]

...-

[@darthkahn45]

He may have lost his life that night but we are here all these years later remembering him and his last acts. Well done Jack you were clearly scared to die but stayed at your post even after the captain relieved you. Good show OM

[@CatherineAaBb]

I know some things in Morse code and learned a lot about it but I've never guessed about the high level of Morse code skills and knowledge radio operators should have just to type simple phrases They're very fast, wow

[@Gideon_the_Seraph]

This is actually incredibly haunting. Scarier than any dramatisation I've seen.

[@Gideon_the_Seraph]

@@j.s.2620 yeah exactly

[@mitchjames8384]

Yeah i agree, knowing that theemres one or two blokes in a room frantically trying to call for help while people are running around screaming outside

[@narumaki6674]

Not as good as the rumbling, isnt it, my fellow compatriot.

[@Gideon_the_Seraph]

@@narumaki6674 Hail Eldia.

[@mellowhateseverybodyandals1289]

its rlly scary when the old man doesnt FUCKING UNDERSTAND YUO

[@WhatTheHe11isTHAT]

Can you imagine the poor guy sending messages while he can hear people shouting and screaming, water coming in, the boat bending and snapping around him. Terrifying. He was a true hero to stay as long as he did.

[@sturmovik5448]

Add the steam that was being released so the boilers wouldn't explode. The emergency release opened out just next to the wireless cabin on deck. That's why they kept having trouble hearing other ships- they were doing all this with a jet engine screaming just outside.

[@pravinatawde5135]

Your explaination made it more real 😭@ low ceilings

[@ackermxn1]

And the people in the electrical room tryed their hardest UNDERWATER to keep the power on so the SOS's can still be sent out.

[@sturmovik5448]

@@ackermxn1 ...and also so the lights would stay on, to aid in evacuating from belowdecks and launching the boats. IIRC, they deliberately sacrificed their own chance at survival for that purpose

[@Rottensparrow]

People back then were true heroes

[@LostProxyNevermore]

Jack Philips had just turned 25… The amount of bravery all of these men had on the Titanic was insane. It makes you cringe so hard at “Captain” Schettino, who wrecked the Costa Concordia

[@MajoradeMayhem]

Titanic to Olympic: "Sis, come quick!" Cape Race to Californian: "Why the hell aren't you helping?"

[@senatorarmstrong8960]

Californian: *I sleep*

[@TheCubicplanet]

2:46 Frankfurt, the first ship to respond the distress call, the last one to understand what's going on. Oh, the irony.

[@Agusnico-yq5wv]

They understood something was wrong and they were coming to the rescue. But they were too far away to get there in time and they wanted details

[@Agomacule]

They also were German.

[@fenceunderscore7410]

they thought it was a lighthouse apparently lmao

[@drpingpongs2593]

@@fenceunderscore7410 lmao

[@someoneelse583]

@@Agusnico-yq5wv i thought they were one of the closest? 100 miles compared 500 miles?

[@k444ng]

Frankfurt to Titanic: we are 100 miles off. what is the matter with you? Titanic: *fool. you fooL-*

[@pedroakjr2371]

What's the meaning of that? were they being offensive or is it code language to something?

[@dracos0024]

@@pedroakjr2371 Basically the fact that Frankfurt still asked what's the matter while the Titanic made it abundantly clear that they're sinking I'm guessing.

[@raulssorban]

That's such a respectful and impactful insult, like a true gentleman being in a near-death situation

[@pedroakjr2371]

@@dracos0024 I mean, I don't understand how things worked at that time, but couldn't that be that many different people were operating this terminal called Frankfurt? It's hard to believe it's the same person asking hundreds of time the same question.

[@dracos0024]

@@pedroakjr2371 Pretty sure there was only one person on transmitting duty (or whatever it's called) at a time. Otherwise you'd get the same ship transmitting the same message 10 times over.

[@lightclawwdum4163]

the ending is absolutely terrifying, the last distress signal sent by the titanic wasn’t even finished and it was sent at 2:17 AM, keep in mind that 2:17 AM was approximately the time when the titanic was starting to split apart

[@AccountRemoved101]

Everyone in it's range were ready to help. It's very distressful how it was basically inevitable fate for the ship, and everyone knew that all they would find would be scraps left to collect.

[@DalekWindmill]

Everyone except the Californian, which happened to be the closest by far. Woops.

[@pat7785]

(Titanic) 20 missed calls

[@TeodorLojewski]

PåT lmao

[@rasmitdevkota5295]

you killed me

[@masonf7332]

*left on read*

[@joshuazero2277]

12:15am *Man I"m tired, I'll take a little nap* *20 missed calls from titanic* *2:15 am: Goddammit*

[@georgiasmith64]

@@joshuazero2277 "the Nextel subscriber you're trying to locate is currently unavailable, at the tone rah rah blah ya da ya da"

[@ZicajosProductions]

22:46 - with the SOS I got goosebumps and a little teary-eyed. I think because of the length of time, people tend to lose sight of the fact that these were all very real people. Seeing the gradually more distressed pleas for help is so saddening, chilling, and eye-opening at the same time. Hats off to the line operator on the Titanic who faithfully remained at the telegraph for as long as he humanly could.

[@shanifriedman5495]

I couldn't watch past 3 minutes without crying

[@tuttosalve8352]

Yeah that was heavy when that first came through

[@terror7858]

bro chill the fuck out they didn’t even let black ppl on that ship because they were racist

[@planetz9793]

@@terror7858 there were 3 passengers whom were black, as sad as that sounds. confidently saying, 1912 was a horrible time in itself but their ignorant means did not mean they deserved to die.

[@DorsiaMaitreD]

hannah bjorkman well who the hell cares about black people? What does that have to do with anything? This is a white tragedy! By the time titanic sank, few blacks had ever crossed the ocean. Even up till this day blacks couldn’t build a titanic like ship without the help of white aid. ⬆️

[@jospenner9503]

Cheers to the person who not only typed up all of the transcriptions, but also created the Morse code. To imagine that these sounds could communicate all the action that happened in the Atlantic ocean that dreadful night.

[@Commander_Koyke]

Be like Samuel Morse: - Receives a letter telling him his wife has gone ill - He comes home - Realizes that he was too late and her wife died - Frustrated he then invented the morse code which is the greatest invention of all time

[@eastbow6053]

@@Commander_Koyke universe: oki sir your wife died before you can reach her, it is what it is morse: *creates morse code* universe: bruh that is cheating morse: *middle finger as he joins his wife in the afterlife*

[@philoshaughnessy906]

Once I started watching it was impossible to look away. Gripping and heartbreaking. All one can think is: "If only"

[@leakyrexa1060]

Note that these ships going at full speed was quite dangerous which is why they asked the weather titanic was in an ice berg field after all

[@ericf7063]

That was one of the things the captain was criticized for. Travelling that fast in a corridor known to have icebergs.

[@agf740]

And on a night where the water was incredibly calm, it made it harder to see incoming icebergs since waves weren’t breaking on them.

[@RandomDudeOne]

@@agf740 Plus the moon had not risen yet.

[@dk8296]

damn I need a friend like the SS Baltic 200+ miles away and still coming to help full speed

[@captaincrunch784]

FriendSHIP goals

[@tonyfuri9693]

😂

[@tonyfuri9693]

Coleen West for every ship?

[@tonyfuri9693]

Coleen West Why did titanic have to sink ? She was so strong 😔

[@dragonheartedcs4061]

@@tonyfuri9693 from what i know though tbe bulkheads were all closed theh were not sealed to the top so the water got over.

[@Strelnikov403]

Love the contrast between the shrill beeps of the tiny shipborne transmitters and the powerful, booming voice of the shore station at Cape Race. You can bet all the operators at sea sat up straight when the Cape came on the net!

[@CFLsurfr]

It's very emotional knowing that once all the other ships were fully aware of Titanic's state, they all raced to her as fast as they could. Some being able to go much faster than others, and especially Olympic deperately trying to get to her sister but far, far away. Everyone that could do something, did something, and risked hitting icebergs themselves doing it. It's easy to pick on Frankfurt, but they were also one of the earliest to respond and there was confusion and shock not to mention the language gap. It's just extremely unfortunate that nobody was closer at the time, and those that were, weren't manning their radios at midnight. What was going through Captain Smith's mind as his quarters filled with water. A lifetime of admirable service to the navy and WSL and he was to retire the next day and raise his daughter in the States. Unreal.

[@ashleyl3699]

well, except the californian, which literally watched titanic sink from 20 miles away and did nothing to help.

[@piiinkDeluxe]

Frankfurt even started baking bread for the suvivors as soon as they were on their way. 😢

[@Negs42]

​@@ashleyl3699the Californian was not 20 miles away. There was a weather phenomenon at work that day which interfered with the spotting of the horizon

[@katie-oo4li]

@@ashleyl3699that’s literally not true at all

[@teresas8173]

@@ashleyl3699… on the Californian there wasn’t anyone on the radios at night. So the Californian received messages far too late. After this occurred it was mandatory that radios be manned around the clock. Also there was some unusual weather phenomenon that happened that evening and the Californian could not see the Titanic, although I think they saw flares. Idk, I want to research about the response or lack thereof of the Californian. They had warned Titanic about icebergs earlier that day. They were reprimanded ( the Captain fired, I believe) by both the the US and the British for not responding. I don’t think we’ll ever really know. It’s difficult to think they did or didn’t do anything purposely to help the Titanic, but I do not know.

[@brandonfeng3780]

Titanic SOS for several hours Frankfurt: VOT EEZ EET Titanic: fOoL

[@CarolineForest]

actually very accurate, there was a language barrier and the Frankfurt operator only knew German morse, so he litterally only understood the "CQD and SOS" and nothing else, and this was before the time where CQD was 'need immidiate assistance' ment urgent. It could just have been a fault that needed fixing but could wait until morning, and not urgent, just 'we have issues'.

[@joshuazero2277]

@@CarolineForest CQD and SOS are international distress calls. Germans would understand what it means

[@CarolineForest]

@@joshuazero2277 it was because of the titanic incident that it became as urgent as today. Back then CQD could be a minor thing that can wait until morning... in 1912 it was a bit diffrent and after that they adjusted the rules to try and prevent this from happening again

[@joshuazero2277]

@@CarolineForest CQD and SOS are not even used anymore. Now it's "mayday"

[@CarolineForest]

@@joshuazero2277 I am litterally from a fisher-family, fishermen for generations, grown up on sea to boat, I was taught how to call for help on sea. we most deffinatly still use other things than 'mayday'. But seems like you are just here to argue because you are bored so I wont induge you. Have fun

[@QuantumShock1]

29:36 [Multiple simultaneous transmissions] - The 1912 equivalent of *several people are typing...*

[@_VictorGrantz_]

Quantum Shock lmaoo

[@Roytulin]

The difference being simultaneous wireless transmissions render all of them unreadable. This remains an issue in radio communications today in aviation and sailing.

[@xandercreates6766]

Except it jams when they try to send

[@NiZhiQiang]

1. Jack Phillips and Harold Bride were relieved of their duties by Captain Edward Smith by 2 a.m. Titanic time, Knowing that the power to the Titanic was almost *COMPLETELY* out. They were told that they've done all they can and should start saving (or bracing) themselves. But Phillips stayed despite their spark was almost out, that's why he's testing out "V" (51:13) 2. While this man was frantically communicating sending out CQDs and SOSs, Another crew member sneaked in and tried to steal Phillips' life-vest, But he's struck and foiled by Bride. 3. Only by 2:17 a.m. Titanic time when the water flooded his post, Phillips and Bride get out of their post and split up, with Bride heading forward and Phillips heading for the aft. That was the last time Bride ever saw Phillips.

[@thecomedypilot5894]

Now I've heard that the two men evacuate the Marconi room around 2:10 am, and that no water was flooding into their room because I think the ship was at it's final plunge at that point.

[@ms.delarosa8642]

I wish James Cameron would have honored more of these heroes in his film. So many people, literally all hands on deck, had to be brave and made sacrifices for others.

[@martina-dd6vb]

I also wish there was more about the real people on the ship, especially the crew. People like Phillips, Murdoch, Moody or even the guys who stayed on board to keep the lights on for as long as they could should've been shown as the heroes they were. They sacrificed their own lives to save other people

[@ahhlece6116]

it’s so haunting how the last line in that wasn’t even finished. He never got to say “Titanic”

[@MrGirthzilla]

This literally breaks my heart.

[@Arkeze]

Went in thinking, this looks mildly interesting but there’s no way I’m going to sit through almost an hour of this, I’ll just watch first few minutes then skip to end. I watched the entire thing.

[@bloomdoom13]

Same..

[@DJ-ov2it]

well i just skipped at reading pace, took me maybe 15 minutes to read the entire video.

[@xandercreates6766]

Same

[@cptredhorse5156]

Gar Nicht Me too

[@MikeyJMJ]

I put it on 2x and skipped through but read everything

[@tedstriker7248]

Crazy to think that the messages at the beginning of the video were 12: 15 am, which is over 30 minutes after the ship hit the iceberg. The ship was sinking but the telegram operators were still working on passenger messages at first. Just shows how the drastic nature of the situation wasn't immediately obvious.

[@justachannel1904]

52:56 “CQD THIS IS” By far the scariest message

[@agantmaruta4014]

The fact that we could only listen to flat monotone morse code make it somehow really really haunting

[@ThatChester]

No words spoken. Just texts of pure distress in an attempt to seek immediate help.

[@agantmaruta4014]

@@ThatChester exactly '-'

[@theguylivinginyourwalls]

@@agantmaruta4014 Then: CQD THIS IS TITANIC. CQD THIS IS... then *silence.* I feel like everybody they contacted who knew what was going on _knew_ what happened then. No more words need be said. It was over. All that was left was to try and save whoever was left.

[@agantmaruta4014]

@@theguylivinginyourwalls mhm yep

[@RB01.10]

@@theguylivinginyourwalls I feel that was either the moment the power failed or the ship broke in half.

[@CheddarMannn]

Titanic for a few minutes: Wassup my fellas? Titanic for an hour: *H O L Y S H E T C O M E F A S T W E H I T G I A N T F U K I N G I C E H E L P*

[@fleabaguette9699]

The thing that gave me the chills was how the pleasant messages sent at the beginning were cut off and replaced with the calls for help. Scary stuff.

[@thetherrannative]

No one could ever possibly match Jack Phillips' professionalism and heroism. To put aside the terror he must have been feeling to stay on the line for that long took a steel soul.

[@chrisinnes2128]

I'm quite sure that another wireless operator in Halifax about 4 years later could and did

[@sirboomsalot4902]

@@chrisinnes2128 “Stop the trains. Munitions ship afire in port. This will be my last message. So long to you boys.” I believe it was something like this.

[@ziggyboogydude1]

"FOOL. YOU FOOL. STAND BY."

[@horizontoday7874]

M. Schm. John Phillips lol

[@WQQKIE]

I want a friend like Olympic, 500 miles away but still coming to my rescue.

[@cessydyoy5495]

Olympic is a sister ship of the Titanic

[@user-br8rg4vn5d]

what is mean?

[@marrob6995]

@@user-br8rg4vn5d its twin sister : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Olympic

[@jonathanp89]

What else was Olympic meant to do? It was and still is, a maritime obligation for any ship that hears an SOS, or CQD in that period, to make for the transmitting ship ASAP so long as it is safe to do so.

[@jonathanp89]

Well I guess you wouldnt want a friend like the Californian...

[@shobhitsingh6330]

Is it just me who feels the horror emanating from these musicless, wordless sounds, they contain the message of death.

[@geofffikar3417]

I bet everyone of us who watched this felt that and some people here said they were crying.

[@AsoGamer33]

31:37 olympic really said "everyone shut up" but in 1912 ship language

[@Tonys_Gabagool]

Titanic:OMFG PLZ HELP! WE HIT AN ICEBERG! WE'RE SINKING! Frankfurt: Lol wtf? Brb

[@AA-bs3iy]

Frankfurt- ok cool but wHaT iS tHe pRoBlEm

[@PrecisionCalc]

Frankfurt: *Comes back* Yeah so what is the matter

[@Callsign_Prophet]

Fckin Germans

[@leithesocialistyuricon8981]

A.J. Bensinger Hey asshole, is called a language barrier.

[@leithesocialistyuricon8981]

A.J. Bensinger Your dense ass would be confused too

[@D17D]

Notice how the conversations were somewhat formal at the start, and gradually start to become rushed and panicked

[@yuch1102]

That tends to happen when your sitting in your room and ocean water wets your shoes

[@lightgreen3479]

@@yuch1102 Makes sense, I guess.

[@lightgreen3479]

@@yuch1102 Makes sense, I guess.

[@mrbisshie]

The guy probably had nightmares for the rest of his life about sending messages, while people are screaming, panicking, explosions, and the sea at his feet.

[@lightgreen3479]

@@mrbisshie Yeah. But what explosions?

[@rubblerage1101]

I'd like to see a movie told from Carpathia's perspective. Hearing these transmittions and dropping everything to help

[@geofffikar3417]

There is a documentary on here about the Carpathia that tells the story.

[@dysmissme7343]

@@geofffikar3417oh?

[@lalmuanpuiamizo]

All they have is dot dash, yet every capable operator trying their best to help their friend in distress. This thing gets me so emotional, much more than the movie itself