The First Real Time Tragedy: The Sinking of the RMS Titanic

This is even this is our American stories to show where America is the store and the American people and to hear and search for the all American stores podcast go the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your butt little-known fact about the Titanic's. It was actually owned by an American J.P. Morgan up next to story about this infamous ship the eyes of two men often don't come up in discussions about the ship. The ships wireless operators. William Hazel Grove will tell the story to start us off. Here's a reading from Titanic survivor Jack Feher's autobiography.

Let's get into the store. Those were ordinary days and into them had crept only gradually. The telephone talking machine. The automobile, airplane, due to have seen such a stimulating at devastating effect upon civilization morning paper had headlines no larger than half an inch in height these days for peace. It seems to me that the disaster about to occur.

Is the event which not only made the world rub its eyes in a way woke with a start keeping it moving at a rapidly accelerating pace. Ever since last piece satisfaction and happiness. My mind the world of today April 15, 1912 Carpathian came in from New York thundering lightning rain coming down the dock and they are harvested from people thousands of people who don't know if their how the wives daughter five have made a ship right out of the dark brilliantly lit up and left the harbor by always reported these reporters literally start throwing God with money on the deck of Carpathian jumpoff will pick you on the water will pay whatever you want for your store anything you want for your story. When the harbor pilot comes they are trying jump on board and they literally get punished and thrown off because this is the scoop of the century and Carpathian.

The course Connie is at the head of the crowd to get on Carpathian when she pulls the which has his wireless operator Harold Wright on board. Everybody wanted to talk to him because he's the surviving wireless operator Marconi was a fascinating time. Connie was from Italy and had little to quantify interest in science, but he really had more about key actually started some experiments in his attic of his parents home yet a cathode ray in the cathode Ray were iron filings so many electric single iron filings jumped into the middle of a solo glass bar in the middle of the cathode ray so this method accident occurred from this electrical thing. So the question was how far could this go so he had a friend take Don and go off a long distance and a shot off a single when his friend received the signal he shot off his God said he develops. This technology does have been developing please take it one step further and he gives a science experiment and basically they have a transmitter and receiver and the receiver is in a box with things and further in the theater.

All these people are there, and so basically Marconi walk around the theater with this box if somebody is manning the transmitter so they sent off the wireless telegraphy thing, though it would hit the box and would they and everybody kept looking for wires where the wires connecting this box that is transmitter Emma Cunningham just kept walking around the floor like a muscle waiter presenting this new technology.

Wireless then he started to think you I want to work water that's really what you need you need a ship to be in contact shipper does this appear so like none of it won't work because the earth is curb the regulations bounce off of the space is no way to work, so he went through these always experience an English Channel and basically we had here at the towers were down and up using Skype to sort out. Get up and 10 aloft, but he was able to transmit a signal across the English Channel, why not the ocean again. Everybody's like there's no way this can work. They didn't understand time wireless can only go about 500 miles during the daylight night on a cold, clear night like April 14, 1912. Always just brilliantly clear the signals could bounce on and on up to 2000 miles so when Marconi proved this is amazing this was just groundbreaking because now ship in the middle Atlantic Ocean could tell the world what was going on and by the way, that's what makes Titanic so unique. One things is the first real time disaster so Marconi's waiting for an abort Carpathian para-cotton who was the wireless manager patient literally keels over from exhaust so they say they are bride who who survive under a lifeboat theater, partly frostbitten they say and what we know you've been through hell and back, but can you take over the wireless alignment knows Morse code so you the first telegram is from goodwill Marconi don't say a word as they would arrange for you to tell your story and $4000 and Carpathian.

And he's literally one of the first people to get on. He's a rock star by today standards. Everybody knows who this guy so the seas part formally walks on board and he goes right to the wireless room were held. Bride is still working, still sending messages and he says to your work is done. He hasn't taken off the ship and taken to a waiting car that is taken to stay in hotel where these reporters and then he sits down and tells them what happened.

Titanic gives them the story. Basically, the century was stated by Phillips going to bed when the captain put his hand he struck an iceberg and you're listening to William Hazel Grove told the story of the first real time disaster in the world. When we come back more of this remarkable story here on our American story books.

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Phillips only last left off. William Hazel Grove was telling us about the night Titanic's rescue ship Carpathian sailed into New York Harbor in a little bit about the man who invented the technology to help save some of the Titanic's passengers, Guglielmo Marconi will be hearing excerpts of hell brides interview with the New York Times wrote this piece. Let's return to the store begin at the beginning. None had England 22 years ago when Marconi forces us to live. I first worked on the Haverford and the Lusitania Titanic, Belfast Jack Jekyll Sahara bride were to working class is from England and they both work on different ship and ended up on Titanic action project.

Phillips was really sort promotion. He was really leaving team well and how much doing the Titanic really Phillips from midnight until sometime in the morning when he woke up on the night of the accident.

I was not sending was asleep. I was due to be up to really Phillips earlier than usual.

These guys are sort of like the computer nerds of today. It is a young man's game. At this point nobody understands Morse code, except these operators it sounds like static is amazing. They can decipher what they do and are able to travel it's exciting for them to be on the spaceship and they really are on the cutting edge of technology out there, this ability to send a wireless message through the atmosphere is just amazing is going to change everything and was interesting. They are pretty much isolated from the ship wireless operator slept in their room.

They ate there they had no contact with the crew and mother in the room was called the silent room because had to be insulated against several things.

One is noise coming to their using direct currently is alternating current molecular self direct currently step way up. Got broadcast out.

She got the signals across the Atlantic.

The key would literally crack very loudly so they had also muffle that reminds me that hadn't been for lucky thing would have never been able to send any call for help.

So for decades hit the iceberg. Believe it or not, the wireless set was broken you on the day of April 14 we know something was wrong and Sunday Phillips and I work for seven hours to find the burned-out secretary last repair to just a few hours before the they had all these messages piled up wireless is really for passengers bride Jack Phillips did not work for white stock. They work for Marconi and that's really how Marconi made his because you could go send a telegram now from the most powerful wireless set to put on the ship so you could send a telegram back to New York City. Jim, I'm in the middle of the Atlantic on Titanic and the great time meeting for lunch also think it was a quick take information from the shore station where the information would be being down to shut out the Titanic and then the big printing presses and I can cancel newspaper will create a newspaper, so the rich have a coffee and croissant, and read about the Chicago Cubs or whatever. This was amazing to people and as a presentation system money they had pneumatic tubes storage would take the messages to the room they've come out with a message by Boreas to send so they would pile up. There's a lot of passengers.

So these guys are going hard at it.

When a ship named the California is approaching pretty close to maybe 10 to 12 miles away and they got some messages for Titanic and so what happens is, while X is the head operator is trying to get through these next. This operator breaks so I get in your car with the radio turned if these boats on top of each other, then you know it's very loud to the operator and so he breaks in and blows Jack Phillips veers off with this message say hey I got some messages for you some ice warnings and Phillips retorts out, and so this operator is only one operator in California against tenant, select as you know, it's been a long day, he turns itself off implications down the line that are knees. So now as Titanic steaming toward this iceberg. Yes, I point of comment. Yes they been taken up to the bridge had been acted on.

No problem, or stop in Baltimore so at this moment. After plunging through the North Atlantic 24 kn Jack Phillips and Harold bride are just working it trying to get past your message is bitterly cold and look up fleet is up in the Crows Nest looking for iceberg also incredibly call the North Atlantic usually not this, but it's like last so the stars are all reflecting off the water to so you have a million spackle stars: so-called photo these ice particles floating around the deck life, which is very much evidence at your entering into a nice field because those iceberg turn from the supercold bring the temperature down around so there up there freezing. They see they call down and the engine crank it over wheel over and Titanic very very long time. She finally does make you likely Mr. but they stopped the ship Capt. Smith is in a state room come bursting out what happened.

The watertight doors are closed the watertight doors and the reason Titanic is called what I believe being steel doors that take every bulkhead and seal it off now. In theory, if a bulkhead sealed off the water could only come in so far.

Titanic the bulkheads only go up to Edac. That means that this water coming in is going to fill up the first compartment and then go up and over to the second compartment be like if you're sitting in your living room and you left the windows open in the bedroom next year. Your living room and your bedroom. The water comes over the top into your living where you're sitting or thinkable way thrown into the front of the canoe pointed out less with the white dots now even still Titanic and float before compartments flooded but five compartment so now weight of the water 39,000 tons rushing is overcoming the shift buoyancy and so it this point. Titanic is due though for most people. There's no evidence of it. This is a monster ship. People are still serving drinks, food still being served. Everything going along like nothing's wrong.

Also, there is no PA there is no public address, and there's been no like so you have the type of 90 feet up and work together, Lord.

Mostly, though people know so how do you find the first class. The store comes. Like I say Sir Jack of income of topic which is not like. So they do. The third class theory famously in the partnership. Find out maybe somebody else down the hallway. Most of them speak English anyway. By the way there down in this labyrinth of the ship had no I you how to get there so it's all against the readily famously the movie we all see the block doorways, passages and call how evil actually that wasn't evil was that it was expected of white start to separate the classes. So yes doors were block against the third class coming up banding into the first class dressed in probably $10,000 dinner close going to dinner and so you had that kind of money, literally own just the clothes on their back, coming to America for an you're listening to William Hazel group.

No remarkable story of the sinking of the Titanic through what we would consider now to be tech geeks. The two wireless operators who were working with the cutting edge technology of its time technology could save the Titanic and in the end, preserved the story of the Titanic and save lives. When we come back more of the storytelling again from the wireless technicians point of view here on our American story. I know everything there is to know about running a coffee shop business insurance. I need my State Farm agent make sure my business days piping equal incompetent business owners to help you best. State Farm is in your corner and on like a neighbor.

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The Titanic construction iceberg was slowly sinking into the Atlantic Ocean water temperature at the time 27� under Capt. EJ Smith was now forced to reckon how exactly is going to save the 2240 people on board.

Jim is William Hazel group, Settle like a duck, he does look like the captain and the movie big white beer very exhaust but he's never had a tragedy like this. In fact, he just gave an interview before the cruise and you know what ships think it's a thing of the past technologies to stun and he goes down to the wireless room and Put his head in the cabinet struck an iceberg and have an inspection me to tell what it has done for us. Better get ready to send a call for assistance. Don't send it until I tell you the captain went away 10 minutes � estimate came back to hear terrible confusion outside. Then the call for assistance for the Really putting us in a cautious process regulation international call for help is that then the captain was gone. Most begin the sensitivity/wedded just like security means basically listen up for what's coming next.

Easy translation is come quick to stress that literally equipment from basic that's what it says now moment you're sending out this message I sent Titanic has four big antennas over the top of the funds only exist to one photo and they start beaming these things out ship model of the North Atlantic which is the best time and want to set it says I struck an iceberg need immediate assistance logic to live over and over and over this project� Just sending descendent one at the top of the other. Now this early technology has only so many frequencies so when somebody sending something out. You can't hear us coming back early early found early found on a rural circuit people had to literally wait for the farm down the road to get off so they can get on this wireless technology like you're sending out that you can't hear coming back so Jack Phillips has to take on faith, mostly the people are hearing and he just repeatedly sending a signal top any ship. So what what would assist me with the help of Bishop got this turnaround and come full speed toward them because they've only got two hours and 40 minutes 460 minutes below these two wireless operators to have matter very little.

Up to this point, really. Now everyone's fate on board the Titanic depends on the captain came back you sending the cutie humor of the situation appealed cutting the little remark that made us all laugh, including the captain and SOS new: maybe your last chance the left. Now they're sending Buck and first come to have struck an iceberg need immediate assistance with changes to have struck an iceberg putting off women and children.

He puts that in their because that in terms of mariner code is word trouble were going down fast, and that is way beyond have struck an iceberg need assist many ships begin answer signals Frankfurt Baltic Carpathian answer signal.

We told our position and told that we were thinking that so cotton who's aboard the Carpathian wireless operator. He actually knows Jack Phillips, and they get the message late almost 1230. The operator on the Carpathian what to tell the captain and five minutes returned and told the captain of the Carpathian was putting about heading towards Capt. Ross comes the captain. He was known as the electric spark. He's incredibly energetic and very well-liked by the crew by the passengers noticed a very fair Knowing he gets the message from Titanic saying come quick distress he to is in the North Atlantic, and he who is at risk of sink if he had some ice and he makes his decision very quickly that he put Nelly his but really everybody ship, he called her life and like to go help these people in distress because he felt that his duty and he's going take a ship faster than ever been designed to go he gets up every stoker the guys to shovel coal and gives them all a shot of brandy and says go to it and he diverts all the steam from the passengers steam driven ships so the big piston rights of the worsening the faster they go, turns the Carpathian uncovers lifeboat sets up a hospital triage station puts out extra lookout, says a prayer.

He's a religious man and takes off full speed for Titanic weaving his way through iceberg put it on the line. He's going so fast that the passengers were now freezing heat anymore coming out and saying we think Carpathian is on fire and she he's going toward the short run aground his worship with difficult fire make a beeline for the short run the ship aground because nobody told them what they're really doing so. Restroom, who's just hell-bent on getting there immediately becomes their best shot at being rescued even though he's 50 miles away.

So we continue to send review minutes of Messages they were merely telling on the car. He was come your way and give her speed.

I noticed as I came back from a trip to the reporting women and children in lifeboats I notice that the list board was increasing. Phillips told me that the wireless is growing weaker. So it 2 AM, Capt. Smith comes into the silent he said men you have done your full duty. You can do no more bending your cabin. Now it's every man for himself lookout for yourselves.

I release you. That's the way of it at this kind of time every man for himself. Titanic said about 45� angle waters coming into the wireless room. Ships going down well. Phillips and Bryant stay there. The dynamos are still going there still some power, even though it's weak. It's a little like little circuits getting fainter turn, ran like but still enough to try and get out the signals so they stay there right up until 221. She's going down Phillips Klingon vending bending Klingon for about 10 to 15 minutes. Captain had released what was then coming in their cabin for Phillips work. I don't know is a brave man and 11 that night messily fall from a great reference standing. The key to his work what everybody else is raging about. I will never live forget the work of Phillips.

The last awful 15 minutes hello strange moment is a stoker constantly. So I got shovel coal and tries to steal Jack Phillips jacket from while he works something happen that I hate the telephone was back in the room getting Phillips money Furman as I looked at the door I saw stoker somebody from below decks leaning over Phillips from behind is too busy to notice what the man was doing the man was slipping a lifeboat off of Phillips back is a big man to see him very small. I don't know what it was that I got a hold of. I remember in flash the way Phillips Klingon had to fix lifeboat in place because he was too busy to do it. I know that men from below decks had his own lifeboat and should know where to get it suddenly felt passionate let the man died until his death wish he might've stretched Roper walk the plank. I did my duty. I hope I finished I don't know. We left them on the floor. The wireless room was not moving and you listen to William Hazel tell the story of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. When we come back the end of this remarkable story sinking of the Titanic you remember Americans I know everything there is to know about running a coffee shop for small business insurance.

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Eventually both Harold pride and Jack Phillips leave the room and search for some elevation here again is William Hazel continue with the store from African attends the band is ragtime. I don't know what bulbs are inapt and I was the last time I ever saw him alive. Basically all order broke down tight. They run out of the wireless room and one remaining boat called Englehart which is collapsible, so men were trying to get it off the roof. I guess there was a sailor in the crowd couldn't do and when the water Titanic was a final wave came over the ship. Big way.

Had hold of the door lock went off Harold pride and under a life overturned in the water and are never realizing I was.

Whatever happened I must not breathe.

I was underwater I knew how to fight for. I did. I got up I do not know but I thought a breath of air last there were men all around hundred C.all depending on when Titanic was sinking. It was strangely beautiful. Had this huge ship inverting all lit up against this cold sky all the stars in this water that was dislike glass and it was all spectacle and then of course broke apart. He was a beautiful stipend smoke and sparks rushed out of her final explosion, but we heard none really saw the big screen sparks ship was gradually turning are no specific doctors when it goes down for dive band was still playing all the band went down this sound was like a thousand freight trains crashing because everything inside Titanic broke loose when converted crashing down all these big and jittery when crashing down from one end of the ship to the other and then she went straight down and then there was a strange fog over the water that followed went last the waves wash over her rudder. There wasn't the least bit of suction muscle kept going down slowly as she had been after little while expecting was very cold saw boat near me and put all my strength into efforts is hard work is all done when a hand reached up to board as our same collapsible same crowd was on. He climbs on top of it and lays there his feet severely frostbitten and literally is wrong why they fall off in the fall and die is incredible moment because on this lifeboat there's probably 15 different angles literally laying on top of the D. A robot turned over and you're laying on top of you have 10, 12, 15 other people laying on top of it and your literally only on top of each other because if you move you fall into the water company set my legs wedged between slats being wrenched didn't have the heart to tell the man to move this terrible settle around and swimming thinking they were. I was man wrenched my feet out of shape came near, but nobody gave me an Obama boat Artie had more minute ago and was thinking and on this boat is really this is a microcosm of humanity as we floated around in a capsized boat training my eyes for his ships lights. But he said the rest of you think we ought to pray men who made a suggestion asked with the religion of the others was mankind's religion was Catholic was Methodist, Presbyterian decided that the most appropriate peripheral the Lord's prayer spoken over the course many first suggested that we pray as the leader so these 20 boats are within calling distance of each other when Harold pride says the wireless operator and I know Carpathian is coming to rest. This is really the only flicker of hope because once Titanic sunk. It was just gone and it wasn't like there was a lot of evidence of his passing and it was just uncommonly quiet and course Carpathian came our lights off in the distance knew that steamship was never a I didn't care what happened just waiting just a pain in my feet and these are some of the last people to get aboard Carpathian and the water was starting to kick up and actually Carpathian could not maneuver correctly to get them to the side where they were. They had to hoist most people in because it they were too cold and too weak to climb up the rope ladder Carpathian hole.

I tried the rope ladder. I feel pain badly but I reach the top, and felt hands reaching out to me next thing I knew, woman was leaning over me to cabin. I felt her hand waving back my hair rubbing my face about somebody in my feet got me under their arms was hustled down below to the hospital was early in the day.

I guess I passed out Lawrence Beasley Road on when they are in Carpathian and he said it was strangely quiet.

Nobody said a word. Why was his will. Because all these women who were mostly survivors got on board realize that your husband and they were aware that there is a girl is a Browning camera. She took several photos. One of them is lifeboat the pulled up to the side of her face and these people just looks so cold, mostly empty life that is no cylinder loaded and she took another wall. These women to sit on the deck wrapped up in blankets. All these women who lost her husband, so you they really only for the people who work socially shellshocked and they didn't have that time you expect term came from World War I.

Five years later these big shells with troops and what was wrong with him but they all have PTSD Harold pride he literally collapsed once he got on board Carpathian. They took him into this makeshift hospital area and then he woke up he told me that the Carpathians wireless man was getting queer. What I hope after that I never left the wireless room so I don't know what happened among the passengers.

I just worked wireless splitter never died down and it soothed her delicate side to the world of friends take you speak. Sometimes a little newspaper asked Russian a long string of stuff asking for full particulars about every whenever I start to take such message. The poor people waiting for the messages to go looking for answers should often use my personal messages was still setting the messages when Mr. Marconi and Times reporter arrived asked that I prepare the statement or maybe 100 left lights on the mall because I know I can get rest easier if I knew this message is not friends waiting for an ambulance man is waiting pressure. I guess I've got to go home. I like and course held by going to live with his family. After this service for a little while. Then he left the business have disappeared from his Titanic really Jack Phillips and Harold and Capt. Ross Capt. Rustin was given the Congressional honor metals from the British groups went on to illustrious career in two pretty young guys put their own lives on the line and stay at the pelvis when they come left at 2 AM. The state all the way.

The Trying to get somebody there to help is only through their efforts, Jack Felson, Harold pride bystander because they allow the seven other people to survive you, honey you look at Titanic. He sells great catastrophe one another with his usually solid amazing rescue that they were able to pluck these people from the middle of the North Atlantic at night and save and that is only because of wireless technology and you know there is a plan we think of heroics you really it comes down to is a plan to get wireless room for basically for part one against the set and it was something that in those last coils last elected it would be that last message really takes her message really what they're saying is, will you come help. Will you come help us and in this is something that even today is still the same basic human plea so really I would say Capt. Rustin Jack Phillips Harold pride they were the heroes and special thanks to William Hazel roof. The book you wrote about this is called 160 minutes race to save the RMS Titanic pick it up at your local bookstore or on Amazon usual online suspects story of the RMS Titanic old the lives of Harold pride and Jack Phillips Americans