Paul Amirault
SOS STORIES, Part Four: Disaster Foretold—The Wreck of the S.S. Kentucky
On the morning of February 3, a little before noon, the wireless station at Cape Hatteras, NC overheard a frantic transmission from the Kent
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Paul Amirault
Jun 22, 20175 min read
SOS STORIES, Part Three: Premonition of Disaster—the Doomed Voyage of the S.S. Kentucky
Story of the S.S. Kentucky, the first American ship to use the SOS distress signal in a Titanic-style disaster. And just like with the sinki
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Paul Amirault
Jun 13, 20174 min read
SOS STORIES, Part Two: The First American to Send an SOS
The story of Theodore Haubner and the Arapahoe, the first American ship to be rescued at sea by a SOS wireless distress call.
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Paul Amirault
May 17, 20175 min read
SOS STORIES, PART ONE: Titanic’s radio operator WASN'T the first to use the famous distress sign
This is the story of the first use of the SOS distress call in a sea disaster. And it didn't involve Titanic!
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