Tag: Tim Maltin

FALSE. David Sarnoff, a radio operator who worked for Wanamaker’s in New York, did relay messages from the Olympic and

TRUE. However, this was in response to the Frankfurt’s question ‘What’s up old man?’, which Phillips received at 2 a.m.,

FALSE. The passenger steamer Mount Temple and the Marconi shore station at Cape Race were the first to receive Titanic’s

TRUE. At about 7.30 p.m., Lightoller took a set of star sights in order to calculate Titanic’s position. Third officer

FALSE. SOS was probably first used on 10th June 1909, about three years before the Titanic sank, by the Cunard

TRUE. In 1912 ships’ clocks were set at midnight to correspond to the longitude of where the ship was expected