#CQD was the old distress code

[liminal-lesbian]

Fun fact! I know the morse code for CQD off by heart bc I made it the alarm clock buzzing rhythm on my phone in high school

[sprunkimortality]

Ehhh so I got silly and made a fugnikn maritime horror story

On the night of April 14th, 2024, a cargo ship cruising through the Atlantic suddenly picked up a faint Morse code SOS call, its message reading, "We have struck a berg. It's CQD, old man." The ship’s crew scrambled to locate the source, the eerie silence of the ocean amplifying their urgency. As the seconds turned to minutes, a sinking dread settled over the crew, realizing the distress call was dated April 14th, 1912. Twelve minutes later, when the ship drew closer to the coordinates, the horizon before them flickered with dim lights, revealing the silhouette of a grand, doomed vessel—its decks eerily filled with frozen, wide-eyed corpses of those long gone, gazing out at the crew of the other ship. In the distance, they heard the faint echoes of an orchestra playing a familiar, haunting tune. A final Morse Code message later rung in. "Join us."

Gdhhbhgfdgdfgv feel free to have any of the goobers react to dis shit 🙃

Black: "Finally! Literature that isn't full of rainbows and sparkles. You've done me a favor, you godsend. Anyhow, this little snippit...it's morbid, innit? And yet a good kind of morbid. Almost familiar kind of morbid."

Raddy: "Black, genuinely, what's wrong with ya?"

Black: "Oh hush. Let me have my moment."

[ledmarconi]

𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 . . . ?

penn name: ellie. ooc information: 19, eastern time zone, she/her, available on discord along with instagram! how to interact: i am a highly selective roleplay account, due to this i will most commonly interact with mutuals. once i have followed you back you may message me or even send in a prompt for me to write in my inbox.

CONTENT/TRIGGER WARNING: this is a historical roleplay account, in no way is it meant to be disrespectful. i have done hours of research as to ensure i pay respects to the real life jack phillips and shine light on the tragic events him and many others had gone through on april 15th, 1912. if you are uncomfortable with the topics discussed on this page, you may block me but please do not try to attack me or any others in the fandom.

who was jack phillips? ;

john ( jack ) phillips was the senior wireless operator aboard the titanic prior to its sinking on april 15, 1912. while aboard the ship, jack shared the job of being the sole communication to the outside world with his colleague and friend, harold bride. the marconi system was fairly new at the time and the first transatlantic radio signal had only been sent eleven years prior to the titanic setting sail. phillips had been in the wireless room when the iceberg had hit, where he then sent out multiple distress calls in a hopeless attempt to contact other nearby ships and get passengers to safety. after sending out the most common distress signal at the time, cqd, phillips suggested they use sos. a fairly new code at the time. making the titanic one of the first major tragedies to use sos. throughout the entire night, jack remained in the wireless room, refusing to leave even while harold's panic rose. there's still controversy as to how phillips had passed that night, with charles lightoller explaining he'd apologized to him while in the ice cold water while harold bride denies that and says jack was already dead when they found him near the lifeboat. one things for certain, without his distress calls, the survivors of the sinking would have been left in the ocean with little to no communication to other ships.

some cool little snippets about my muse! ;

jack was born on april 11th, 1887, being named john george phillips. his two sisters already being thirteen by the time he was born. sadly, his birthday fell only 4 days prior to the wreck and he even celebrated his birthday aboard the titanic where he turned twenty-five years old.

while sending out the distress signals, harold bride had made multiple attempts to convince jack to leave, even going as far as to force him to wear a life jacket and beating a man, leaving him either unconscious or even dead due to him trying to steal jacks life jacket.

jack grew up religious and now has a plaque dedicated in his memory nearby the church he attended.

some prompts for all of you to send in ;

first meetings. late night/early mornings. the five senses.

if you are in any way interested in writing/developing with me i would love it, feel free to message me or even leave messages in my inbox! i love you all <3

[celebdeathnews]

Which Actors Passed Away on the Titanic? Check Here!

Gloria Stuart led a long, exciting life similar to that of her "Titanic" heroine. The actor, who was 100 years old when she passed away in 2010, had been in more than 80 films and television shows dating back to Hollywood's Golden Age. See the full story below.

The “unsinkable” liner undoubtedly sailed with insufficient lifeboats, but it was infamously the lower Third Class passengers who suffered the heaviest losses—roughly two-thirds of them perished.

Although sea travel is much safer now, it is still risky, as the recent tragedy on the Costa Concordia in Italy demonstrated. Nevertheless, the sinking still captures the public’s attention, and back then, like now, the crowd was curious about the famous names of the deceased.

1. John Jacob Astor Iv

John Jacob Astor IV, a German-American businessman who had acquired his fortune in real estate and was the great-grandson of John Jacob Astor, the creator of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, was likely the most well-known and wealthy of the victims of the actual sinking.

Astor IV’s wife made it to a lifeboat by following the rule that women and children should be rescued first, but Astor did not and perished at the age of 47.

2. Benjamin Guggenheim

The heir to the family’s mining company, Benjamin Guggenheim, was another well-known and wealthy passenger who passed away.

He believed the catastrophe was small at first, but the tale goes that when he understood the Titanic was sinking and that a rescue attempt was doubtful, he changed into his formal evening attire to prepare for death.

Ironically, he had planned to travel on the Lusitania, but when that ship needed repairs, he opted to travel on the newest, most luxurious ocean liner instead.

3. Isidor Straus

The German-born co-owner of the Macy’s department store in New York, Isidor Straus, passed away at the same time as his wife, Ida.

In the 1997 film Titanic, they are shown laying together on a bed as water pours into the room. They were last seen seated in deck chairs on the deck after refusing to be separated in the lifeboats.

The only solace for the heartbroken family was the knowledge that their infant grandson Stuart was scheduled to travel as well, but had instead remained in England due to his illness.

4. Jack Phillips

Even though nearly none of the crew members were well-known before the voyage, some of them were afterward made famous all over the world. The crew’s mortality rate was as high as two-thirds.

The senior radio operator on board was Jack Phillips, and he was the one who transmitted the distress and rescue signals using the code CQD (although the new SOS was replacing it).

He was ultimately held responsible for not relaying communications from the steamships Mesaba and the SS Californian, both of which had indicated icebergs and ice in the Titanic’s course ahead because he was under pressure to deliver passenger messages as well.

After working until the power went out, Phillips and Harold Bride fled for safety. Bride survived, but Phillips perished in the water while riding on his capsized lifeboat.

5. Thomas Andrews

Thomas Andrews, a Ulsterman who oversaw the building of the Titanic, was unquestionably one of the more well-known individuals after the catastrophe.

Andrews was confident in “his” Titanic and thought it was as well-built as possible. Designers and engineers typically go on the first voyage to evaluate the design and record issues.

But he realized that the iceberg’s gash was too much for the individual hulls to bear and that the ship was doomed. He remained on board until the very end, offering assistance to other passengers and seizing each moment he could before his goal was lost forever.

Let’s discuss the Titanic actors who died.

6. Gloria Stuart (1910 – 2010)

Gloria Stuart led a long, exciting life similar to that of her “Titanic” heroine. The actor, who was 100 years old when she passed away in 2010; had been in more than 80 films and television shows dating back to Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Additionally, she cross-examined luminaries like Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin, Dorothy Parker, and Groucho Marx.

She has worked on several timeless films from that period, including The Three Musketeers (1939), The Invisible Man (1933), The Old Dark House (1932), and Poor Little Rich Girl (1936).

The last time Stuart had acted in a high-profile production—or even a film at all, for that matter—was in 1997’s “Titanic,” which she played.

In reality, Stuart had practically given up acting by the time she was cast and, according to reports, even didn’t have an agent.

However, the seasoned actor did not let fans down upon her triumphant return to Hollywood, turning in a performance as the elderly Rose that more or less eclipsed the efforts of the entire cast.

Stuart was appropriately honored for her work with her first and only Academy Award nomination, even though she didn’t win the award on Oscar night.

7. Bernard Fox (1927 – 2016)

While a large portion of the “Titanic” central ensemble was charged with playing fictional characters whose names didn’t exist on the ship’s official manifest, many others had the considerably more challenging duty of portraying actual passengers who suffered real-life tragedies as the ship sank.

The latter group included Welsh-born actor and celebrated star of numerous movies and television shows Bernard Fox, who played the late, great Colonel Archibald Gracie IV in the movie “Titanic” with a low-key, aristocratic air befitting the man’s legacy.

Gracie was a writer and amateur historian whose great-great-grandfather constructed New York’s Gracie Mansion, which today serves as the Mayor’s official house. If you’re not familiar with that history, it was erected in the early 1800s.

Gracie initially appears in “Titanic” as Rose is being talked back from committing suicide by Jack, praising the young man for saving her.

Gracie, a real-life Titanic survivor, published “The Truth On the Titanic” in 1913 as a book about calamity.

That book is today recognized as one of the most important accounts of the ship’s sinking (it is currently available under the title “Titanic: A Survivor’s Story”).

Sadly, Gracie didn’t live to see it printed; he died just a few months after his Titanic experience. Regarding Fox, the adored actor, the movie served as one of his final on-screen appearances, and he lived for a full ten years after his “Titanic” performance.

[arctic-north-star]

AU where everyone on Titanic is saved because Cyril Evans is pissed off at being told to shut up by Phillips. 

Out of spite, Evans sends Phillips the ice warning message again. Phillips again snaps at him to keep out. But Evans has the most powerful signal, and drowns everyone else out. Evans loudly complains that he has an important message to deliver, and if it's not too much time or trouble, will the good ship RMS Titanic please acknowledge him. Phillips reluctantly acknowledges the message in order to shut him up.

But Evans isn't done yet. He's got a second wind and is on a roll. He sends the ice warning message again, this time as a MSG. Phillips swears richly at him in morse code. But with other ships eagerly listening in, he has no choice but to relay it to the captain and to inform Evans that its been delivered. Evans immediately sends Phillips another message. And another. And another. No other ship can get a word in. Phillips is prevented from completing his own messages.

And just when Evans starts to feel uneasy about taking up the frequency and belatedly realizes that he's behaving like a child and is going to get into trouble, Titanic strikes the iceberg.

Phillips breaks off mid-insult.

There is a pause.

Evans slowly asks Titanic if everything is OK.

The other ships are silent. 

There is no response.

There is silence.

There is nothing.

Evans silently composes an apology statement to the Marconi company as he slips his earphones off his ears. He should have shut down for the evening a while ago. He lowers his earphones to his desk.

And hears the crashing electrical roar of CQD CQD CQD bursting out of them.

He is the first to answer Titanic's distress call. He rouses The Californian to life, and his ship steams immediately to Titanic's location. There are so many survivors that night that both The Californian and The Carpathia are bursting with them.

Bride is picked up by The Carpathia, and helps Cottam with his deluge of messages.

Phillips is picked up by The Californian, and helps Evans with his stack of messages. They apologize to one another. They shake hands and call each other old man and become friends for life.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.23

393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. 1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War. 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.). 1793 – Second Partition of Poland. 1795 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry. 1846 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. 1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President. 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. 1904 – Ålesund Fire: The Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day. 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea. 1943 – World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army. 1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. 1950 – The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee". 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela. 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown. 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite. 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. 1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty-one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. 1968 – USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea. 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. 1987 – Mohammed Said Hersi Morgan sends a "letter of death" to the president of Somalia, proposing the genocide of the Isaaq people. 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. 1998 – Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source. 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. 2002 – U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. 2003 – A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted. 2018 – A 7.9 Mw  earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities. 2018 – A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.

[hudsonespie]

Salvor Plans to Recover Radio Equipment From Inside the Titanic

RMS Titanic Inc., the salvage and exhibition company that describes itself as "the exclusive steward of RMS Titanic," plans to conduct another expedition to recover materials from the wreck site - and, for the first time ever, to take an artifact from within the ship. 

RMS Titanic Inc. has the admiralty rights for salvage at the site, and it has retrieved about 5,500 items since its first (controversial) dives in 1987. Its last expedition to the site was in 2010, when it completed a 3D video survey of the vessel. 

In a federal court filing this week, the company requested the right to recover the Titanic's Marconi wireless set, which is lodged within compartments on the topmost deck. A recent visit found that the vessel is deteriorating more rapidly than expected due to a combination of currents, iron-eating bacteria and saltwater corrosion, and RMS Titanic Inc. expressed concern that the vessel's radio room could soon be destroyed in the course of the ship's deterioration - “potentially burying forever the remains of the world’s most famous radio.”

At the time of the Titanic's sinking in 1912, the Marconi wireless was a relatively new technology for shipping, and the vessel's SOS signal has become a part of the ship's place in popular culture. The Titanic's senior wireless operator, Jack Phillips, stayed at his post and continued to transmit a distress signal (alternating SOS with the old "CQD" code) until the vessel lost electrical power. He did not survive the sinking, but his efforts brought the assistance of good samaritan vessels like the Carpathia, which saved about 700 passengers and crew. Without the wireless transmission, it is considered unlikely that a rescue effort would have been mounted in time. 

RMS Titanic Inc.'s request to recover the radio comes at about the same time as the entry into force of a new treaty to protect the Titanic. The U.S. and the UK have both ratified an agreement that gives the nations the right to regulate tourism and salvage operations at the wreck site. Before, the Titanic was subject only to admiralty law and to the protections afforded it as a UNESCO heritage site. 

The request also comes at about the same time as the dissolution of RMS Titanic Inc.'s parent company, Premier Exhibitions. Premier was once a publicly-listed museum display company with a variety of touring exhibitions, including displays focused on artifacts from the Titanic. It pursued the monetization of its Titanic holdings through auction or sale beginning in 2012, but the relics were still in Premier's possession when it filed for bankruptcy in 2016. In 2018, a federal judge approved the sale of the 5,500 Titanic artifacts from Premier to three investment companies - Apollo, Alta Fundamental Advisers and PacBridge Capital Partners - in order to satisfy Premier's debts. Last October, Premier began the final process of liquidation, which will ultimately result in the dissolution of the company.

from Storage Containers https://maritime-executive.com/article/salvor-applies-to-recover-objects-from-within-the-titanic via http://www.rssmix.com/

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.23

393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. 1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War. 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) 1793 – Second Partition of Poland. 1795 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry. 1846 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. 1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President. 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day. 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea. 1943 – World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army. 1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. 1950 – The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee". 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela. 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown. 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite. 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. 1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. 1968 – USS Pueblo (AGER-2) is attacked and seized by naval forces of North Korea. 1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. 1998 – Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source. 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. 2002 – U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. 2003 – A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted. 2018 – A 7.9 Mw  earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities. 2018 – A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.

[hudsonespie]

Salvor Plans to Recover Radio Equipment From Inside the Titanic

RMS Titanic Inc., the salvage and exhibition company that describes itself as "the exclusive steward of RMS Titanic," plans to conduct another expedition to recover materials from the wreck site - and, for the first time ever, to take an artifact from within the ship. 

RMS Titanic Inc. has the admiralty rights for salvage at the site, and it has retrieved about 5,500 items since its first (controversial) dives in 1987. Its last expedition to the site was in 2010, when it completed a 3D video survey of the vessel. 

In a federal court filing this week, the company requested the right to recover the Titanic's Marconi wireless set, which is lodged within compartments on the topmost deck. A recent visit found that the vessel is deteriorating more rapidly than expected due to a combination of currents, iron-eating bacteria and saltwater corrosion, and RMS Titanic Inc. expressed concern that the vessel's radio room could soon be destroyed in the course of the ship's deterioration - “potentially burying forever the remains of the world’s most famous radio.”

At the time of the Titanic's sinking in 1912, the Marconi wireless was a relatively new technology for shipping, and the vessel's SOS signal has become a part of the ship's place in popular culture. The Titanic's senior wireless operator, Jack Phillips, stayed at his post and continued to transmit a distress signal (alternating SOS with the old "CQD" code) until the vessel lost electrical power. He did not survive the sinking, but his efforts brought the assistance of good samaritan vessels like the Carpathia, which saved about 700 passengers and crew. Without the wireless transmission, it is considered unlikely that a rescue effort would have been mounted in time. 

RMS Titanic Inc.'s request to recover the radio comes at about the same time as the entry into force of a new treaty to protect the Titanic. The U.S. and the UK have both ratified an agreement that gives the nations the right to regulate tourism and salvage operations at the wreck site. Before, the Titanic was subject only to admiralty law and to the protections afforded it as a UNESCO heritage site. 

The request also comes at about the same time as the dissolution of RMS Titanic Inc.'s parent company, Premier Exhibitions. Premier was once a publicly-listed museum display company with a variety of touring exhibitions, including displays focused on artifacts from the Titanic. It pursued the monetization of its Titanic holdings through auction or sale beginning in 2012, but the relics were still in Premier's possession when it filed for bankruptcy in 2016. In 2018, a federal judge approved the sale of the 5,500 Titanic artifacts from Premier to three investment companies - Apollo, Alta Fundamental Advisers and PacBridge Capital Partners - in order to satisfy Premier's debts. Last October, Premier began the final process of liquidation, which will ultimately result in the dissolution of the company.

from Storage Containers https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/salvor-applies-to-recover-objects-from-within-the-titanic via http://www.rssmix.com/

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.23

393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. 1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War. 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) 1793 – Second Partition of Poland. 1795 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry. 1846 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. 1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President. 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day. 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea. 1943 – World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army. 1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. 1950 – The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee". 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela. 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown. 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite. 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. 1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. 1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. 1998 – Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source. 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. 2002 – U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. 2003 – A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted. 2018 – A 7.9 Mw  earthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities. 2018 – A double car bombing in Benghazi, Libya, kills at least 33 people and wounds "dozens" of others. The victims include both military personnel and civilians, according to local officials.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.23

393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. 1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War. 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) 1793 – Second Partition of Poland. 1795 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry. 1846 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. 1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic. 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day. 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea. 1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army. 1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. 1950 – The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee". 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela. 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown. 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite. 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. 1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. 1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. 1998 – Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source. 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. 2002 – U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. 2003 – A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted. 2018 - Legendary South African trumpeter, composer and singer Hugh Masekela dies at the age of 78, after a battle with prostate cancer.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.23

393 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. 1264 – In the conflict between King Henry III of England and his rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, King Louis IX of France issues the Mise of Amiens, a one-sided decision in favour of Henry that later leads to the Second Barons' War. 1368 – In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries. 1546 – Having published nothing for eleven years, François Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel. 1556 – The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000. 1570 – James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent for the infant King James VI of Scotland, is assassinated by firearm, the first recorded instance of such. 1571 – The Royal Exchange opens in London. 1579 – The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands. 1656 – Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provinciales. 1719 – The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire. 1789 – Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) 1793 – Second Partition of Poland. 1795 – After an extraordinary charge across the frozen Zuiderzee, the French cavalry captured 14 Dutch ships and 850 guns, in a rare occurrence of a battle between ships and cavalry 1846 – Slavery in Tunisia is abolished. 1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Geneva Medical College of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor. 1870 – In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends. 1899 – The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. 1899 – Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic. 1900 – Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat. 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style. 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day. 1912 – The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague. 1920 – The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies. 1937 – The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime. 1941 – Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea. 1943 – World War II: Troops of Montgomery's Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army. 1943 – World War II: Australian and American forces defeat Japanese army and navy units in the bitterly-fought Battle of Buna–Gona. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal ends. 1945 – World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. 1950 – The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. 1957 – American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee". 1958 – After a general uprising and rioting in the streets, President Marcos Pérez Jiménez leaves Venezuela. 1960 – The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Pacific Ocean. 1961 – The Portuguese luxury cruise ship Santa Maria is hijacked by opponents of the Estado Novo regime with the intention of waging war until dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is overthrown. 1963 – The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite. 1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified. 1967 – Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established. 1967 – Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely farmland, with evidence of continuous settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. 1973 – United States President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached in Vietnam. 1986 – The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, The Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley. 1997 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. 1998 – Netscape announced Mozilla, with the intention to release Communicator code as open source. 2001 – Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution. 2002 – U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and subsequently murdered. 2003 – A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.