Why Titanic’s first call for help wasn’t an SOS signal

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Titanic telegraph operator Jack Phillips transmitted pleas for help with the new wireless technology, but competing distress calls and signal interference caused confusion

Bride’s anger may have been fueled in part by fear, in part by business competition.’s telegraph operator worked for German telecommunications company Telefunken. Historians have documented a longstanding rivalry between Marconi and Telefunken. Marconi fought tooth and nail to shut out the German company from the maritime market, and his operators were discouraged or even forbidden to trade telegraph messages with competitors.

sank, telegraph operators Bride and Phillips began to switch between SOS and CQD, but their distress calls for help were sloppily relayed or downplayed by other operators. Phillips and Bride could only send or receive one message at a time, and their line was repeatedly tied up with the confusion of other operators and irrelevant questions, like an inquiry as to whether the, didn’t receive’s distress calls at all.

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