Expedition To Salvage Titanic's Wireless Telegraph Gets The Go-Ahead
A federal judge said retrieval of the technology "will contribute to the legacy left by the indelible loss of the Titanic, those who survived, and those who gave their lives in the sinking."
by Vanessa Romo
May 20, 2020
2 minutes
In the final hours it took the R.M.S. Titanic to sink, wireless telegraph operators issued a series of increasingly frantic messages calling for rescue.
They went from detailed to desperate.
The last transmission — issued just a few minutes before the "unsinkable" ship disappeared below the surface of
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