@chriseagle6501 the power was slowly going. The range kept getting shorter. They were still transmitting but no one could hear as they weren't in range.
16:26 In case anyone is wondering why Titanic is calling V twice, this is because Jack Phillips was sending test signals, as Bride was adjusting dials to compensate for the growing loss of power.
I've honestly wondered about that. SOS is ... --- ... V is ...- (...-)--... doesn't seem unreasonable to explain the V. Beginning of an SOS that got cut off for lack of power. Doesn't seem like waiting for a test signal fits the urgency in that Marconi office at the time. In Bride's situation I'd be trying to transmit SOS immediately if I thought the transmitter could do it.
I have been studying Titanic since I was 8 years old.. so about 19 years, and this brought so many emotions to me. Sitting in a dark room listening to this, though not an original recording, it's still bringing back the voice of that mighty ship, and Jack Phillips.. I am speechless. Completely and utterly speechless.. I lack the words to describe how I feel after hearing this.. and accompanied by photographs and artwork in the clip.. wow. what more can I say than wow.. thank you so very much for compiling this and sharing it with us. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
its been 8 years since you made this comment but there is a video on YT of the entire sequence of marconi messages that if you haven't watched, you will absolutely love. ua-cam.com/video/FxRN2nP_9dA/v-deo.html
Olympic:"Are you coming to meet us?" Titanic: "BRUH, WE ARE PUTTING PEOPLE IN BOATS. THE BOW OF THE SHIP IS UNDERWATER. IS YOU SLOW." Carpathia was a total chad though. Only rated for 14 knots and did 17 knots that night. "WE ARE ON OUR WAY OLD MAN, DOING 3 KNOTS OVER MAX RATED SPEED, WE WILL EITHER COME TO YOUR RESCUE, OR COME APART TRYING." Olympic was too, didn't need to come to the rescue, but did anyway, lighting all boilers. Little known fact, after meeting with the Carpathia after recovering the survivors, the Olympic's captian at the time, Herbert Haddock, requested the band to not play any songs the rest of the way back to Southampton, out of respect for the lives lost on Titanic.
@amberap2827 Reading the messages, that's the vibe I got out of it, and how I pictured Jack Phillips would have said it in modern day lingo. And honestly, knowing the crap he went through the previous 48 hours, it's not a far stretch from the truth. Considering he stayed up all night Saturday with Harold Bride, fixing the wireless(which was HIGHLY forbidden against, but he did anyway) and worked all day plowing through the backlog of passenger messages, finishing at midnight. Dude had been up for around 37 hours straight with barely any sleep and now he is on a sinking ship. I would be snippy too.
Greetings, The older and longer BBC version of "CQD -- The Titanic in Her Own Words" has apparently been recently taken down, likely due to copyright issues. Thank heavens this version is still with us, albeit shorter, but still effectively recreates very well, the history and that sad and terrible moment -- when Titanic speaks, "in her own words", as she is dying. I have been a student of Titanic and Carpathia history for 62 years. This still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear this production. Thanks, "old man".
She sank in the early hours of the 15th April. She hit the iceberg at aprox 23:40 on the 14th April. I know on the video I got the date wrong but I don't want to go and make it all again. As long as you know, that's the main thing :)
Could you imagine the firemen in these other ships. Running full steam for hours trying to get on site. Most overlooked efforts of the whole event, as admirable as her finest officers that night.
@@HY-mv4eq The crew was aware of there being icebergs that night, they'd had multiple warnings from a lot of ships along the way. Even if they hadn't been warned about ice, they would have been careful anyways, because they were familiar with the route and knew that icebergs were very common in the area that time of year. Modern analysis of the weather conditions that night shows they were almost certainly dealing with a false horizon mirage, so they couldn't have possibly seen the iceberg that killed them until it was right on top of them - even if they had been on high alert, there really wasn't any hope of dodging. The captain of the Carpathia later testified that he was absolutely risking his own ship running to help the Titanic, as there was no chance in hell HE could dodge an iceberg in those conditions, and it was quite literally an act of god that prevented them from having their own crash. The tragedy wasn't anyone's fault. It was just... a freak accident at the worst possible time and place. Which is really hard to acknowledge, but sometimes tragedies happen, even when everybody does the right thing. Unless they were on the Californian, in which case they were doing sweet fuckall, but y'know. Apart from them, everyone involved did pretty much everything in their power to prevent this and then minimize damage in the aftermath.
@@HY-mv4eqexcept it was standard practice at the time to go full speed until ice was actually sighted. Smith also adjusted course further south with previous ice warnings.
It’s so crazy on how many ships were chatting in one moment to titanic, and the two wireless operators on the Titanic Harold bride and Jack Phillips and how stressed they were as you can just hear the such fast tapping of them. They saved 700 lives that night, those 2 men, 700 others.
They ignored the ice warning. Told the Californian to shut up and never relayed the message to the captian one could argue they got 1500 people killed that night.
Not to forget that it was Jack Phillips who did not relay the message of SS Californian of being surrounded by ice to the bridge which could be one of the main reasons for not slowing down the speed on that fateful night.
They did but they did not give the bridge the USS Meseba ice warning as it pertained to Titanics path. That would have saved everybody. Those messages have to go out first, passenbers message second. It cost the peopled that died their lives due to the bridge having insufficent warning.
I know it’s mechanical robotic voices. But I love that you can hear the fear in the voice of Cape race when they are telling the Virginian that they are much closer to Titanic than the Olympic
This is very well done, but at the same time it hurts. The music towards the end really hits. As the video goes on longer, It's as if you can hear the Titanic slowly dying. Both literally, by the ship slowly foundering (sinking), and figuratively, by it's wireless signal (The Titanic's voice) slowly dying out. As well, you can almost feel the stress of the situation start to come over the Titanic's wireless officers. In the beginning, they were trying to give as much information as possible, give out their coordinates, communicate back and forth with each ship addressing the Titanic, and generally respond as best they could. But towards the end, as the ship got worse and the power really began to falter; they were messaging CQD and SOS repeatably hoping anyone would still hear it. They constantly messaged of their failing situation. Even with a failing signal, they tried to stay in contact with, and were all but begging the Carpathia for help, believing her to be their only hope for rescue by that point. It's crazy to think, ships still reported hearing broken up and garbled CQD's and SOS's from the Titanic minutes before she went under, in her very final moments. The dedication of these men, I will not forget. Thank you for the great video
I love how wholesome this is. Everyone rushing to help, relaying messages, and trying to provide aid. Towards the end it gets cluttered, but the messages are the same “Hang on! We’re on our way.” And “Titanic needs assistance. Any ship in the area please aid the stricken liner. They have a CQD.” The sadness operators must have felt once she fell silent for the final time. Knowing they couldn’t reach her in time.
The horror amongst all the ships when they realized none were close enough to save them. Imagine if they had no Marconi radio and flares out of range. No one would have known and it would have taken days before survivors in life boats would be spotted, if ever. A mystery.
Wow. Ive been a student of Titanic for 27 years now, and every couple of years this ship appears back in my pcyche and the books and videos come out. This brings me closer to this ship then any other video ive watched. So sad.. its almost like the voices are the titanic making the pleas by herself.
The operators on Titanic clearly didn't seem to think the ice warnings really applied to them and that final one from the Californian was chilling {no pun} and then to hear Titanic's response kind of makes you angry in a way but they also did not have a crystal ball. It also struck me 1.) how many ships offered assistance even though some were more than 100 miles off and 2) Olympic's concern for her sister ship in spite of being 500 miles away. They went full steam towards her position immediately and wanted to do everything possible to help...must have been so frustrating.
11months late but, the reason they snapped at Californian is because they were up all night fixing the radio so they were a little irritable and it was turned all the way up to talk to Cape Race so Californian's transmission was just a super loud ringing in the operator's ears
Also, the wireless operators were not employed by White Star to pass on operational messages. They were employed by Marconi to send passenger messages and that is how they got paid (if I remember right they got commission from every message they sent or received). It wasn't until after this event that the true importance of radio for safety was really realised.
The Californian could have. The officers on deck after their wireless operator went to sleep noticed the port list, rockets and morse lamp. The captain should have woken up their marconi operator and tried. They were no 23 miles away. They maybe could have saved 200 more. Of course White Star is the biggest problem in removing the life boats as to give 1st class passengers a better view. Phillips the operator should have sent the USS Meseba message to the bridge and didn't. That would have gave them time to slow down or hunker down for the night. Lightroller said he would have but he never got it.
@@Ben-rh9kr A lot wrong, Titanics crew didn't signal distress properly, they sent up the rockets for 'Navigation Issues: Stay Clear' instead, Californian was probably thinking that or company rockets. As to the lifeboats, think of the lifeboats of the time period, wooden deathtraps that in a storm would kill people and only fit to transport people to shore or another ship nearby. Something wasn't rectified until much later. Plus with how Titanics crew could barely handle 20 lifeboats, 32 or 48 was outside of them plus with the failure of leadership aboard, the Third Class would've still gotten screwed
One thing that always strikes me is the similarity between the messages here, and the recordings of the SOS messages from Estonia that sank in the 90s. Despite being 80 years later and technology being so much better, there is still that feeling of hopelessness as the other ships are racing to the scene, especially when both ships go silent. In that case too, even though they arrive much faster, instead of a ship they find lifeboats and people floating in the sea.
Sad how titanic sank on her first maiden voyage it still shocks me and imagine how many people are scared when the ship broke in half in the stern also rest in piece jack philips 1912 Harold bride - 1950s
Even though the Olympic was on its way to assist. The Olympic asked the Carpathia if they wanted them to take all of the titanic survivors but it was decided that since the Olympic was basically a near identical ship to the titanic that that would be a bad idea, and it could cause issues among the survivors so basically, they made sure that the Olympics did not get anywhere near the Carpathia for the protection of the survivors
I loved the older video I hope it comes back on UA-cam.. I loved listening to the longer version of the distress calls from titanic I wish they didn't take it down does anyone know if the longer version of this will be back on UA-cam after the copyright issues are over?? I loved to hear the longer version!! I wish that this video could be made into the older longer version
At that point the engine room was flooding and the electricity comes from the steam in the engine room. The Marconi Wireless set can't reach long distances without power so it was starting to get quieter and fill with static
It would have been a result of the dwindling steam supply and power. The engineers went down with the ship to give these operators as long as they could to get help.
Yes I know. Someone else pointed out the exact same thing some time ago. I couldn't face having to go and re-edit the video again so I decided to leave it and face the consequences :)
What a fatally stupid thing for Phillips to have done telling the Californian radio operator to shut up. The guy gave up warning Phillips and turned in for the night. Unbelievable.
The shut up bit is just Marconi operator etiquette of the time that sounds more rude than it is. The guy on the other end would not have been offended. The ice warnings were also old news to the crew by that point, one more wasn't going to change anything.
He was overloaded with passenger messages and said it out of frustration but the Californian to not investigate the rockets they saw and the lamps they saw flashing is baffling to me.
@@ryans413ight? I understand that rockets weren’t shot up at the right intervals and the Morse lamp was difficult to make out but at what point during the confusion would you finally say “go wake up the wireless guy”. I don’t blame the Californian crew for not understanding but I do believe they could’ve done much more.
@@BrennanBarrier if they we’re confused I would have just radioed Titanic too check in. They could have said we see rockers and lamps are you okay. That simple yes they were confused but didn’t radio back and I think it was because Jack Phillips originally told them to shut up.
SS Frankfurt was the first ship to reply to Titanic. at that point Titanic had explained to the Frankfurt 3 separate times. Frankfurt had asked "shall i tell my capt." on the first reply and then asked again later. At that point Titanic was loosing power
This comment is four years old and I'm sure you've probably received a satisfactory answer by now, but for anyone else who comes across this: Frankfurt was a German ship and IIRC the operators didn't understand English very well. They were having a difficult time piecing together Titanic's situation and kept asking things like "Shall I tell my captain?", "Should I come to your assistance?", "You're putting people in boats? You are ok then?", "You don't need our help? You do? Yes? No?" et cetera. In the video you hear the final exchange between them: > Frankfurt: We are 100 miles off. What is the matter with you? > Titanic: FOOL! YOU FOOL! STAND BY! STAND BY! STAND BY AND KEEP OUT! KEEP OUT! Keep in mind, Frankfurt just asked Titanic what the deal with their CQD is after repeatedly being told by Titanic and other ships that Titanic had struck an iceberg, was sinking, and was in desperate need of immediate assistance. Essentially, Frankfurt is the og "VAT ARE YOU SINKING ABOUT?" Eventually Jack Phillips got tired of dealing with Frankfurt's shit while also dealing with the chaos of trying to juggle all the other ships he was communicating with, and so he called Frankfurt a fool and told them to shut up and stay out of the conversation.
What folks previously said is true, Frankfurt was polluting the audio with pointless questions plus he said "we're 100 miles of" That distance means it'll take them a better part of a day to reach Titanic so it might as well be a million miles away for all Phillips cared.
@@LordAmerican Eh, part of it was Phillip's frustration, but moreso Frankfurt had a competing set. It was not Marconi. The dire situation at first had them talking, but between the frustrating questions and the stress of the situation, his training kicked in and told the competing operator to "keep out".
I never understood why White Star Line never implemented a second amchine a another set of operators. If MArconi operated on 1 frequency and you offfered a service of sending passengers messages, then wouldn't it make more sense for 1 machine to receive and focus on important warnings and the other on basic, civil stuff? You can potnetially miss a crucial warning, like what happened with Philips.
They actually did have two sets, though one was a backup emergency set with a limited range. I don't think ot would be too helpful to have two different marconi machines for the same purpose since they have to use the same frequency. It would just mean that both sets would receive the same messages and interfere with each other.
@@Railfan105. this makes no sense. With your logic, if 1 ship sends a message, everyone hears it. That's true, they had 1 frequency. But how loud it is depends on the distance from you to the sender. But you aren't the only one sending messages. So how the fuck are you supposed to know which dashes and dots are from your message? This is truly interesting.
@@HyperVegitoDBZ Actually that is not how that works. When you have the original system, it has more of a power supply so it's able to reach much more distance than its emergency counterpart. The emergency can only reach about 50 miles where the regular can go over 200 in good conditions. Also, the other ships can be sending messages so their frequencies can clash with each other making it hard to decipher who is saying what. People are trained in how to decipher messages but when multiple people try to send at once it makes things very difficult.
@@HyperVegitoDBZ How are you supposed to know who's message is what? The receiver hears the beginning of the message which calls out the call letters of the set they are talking to, which in Titantic's case is MGY. Which is one of the reasons Phillips told the California to shut up (They were closer, and Cape was far away, he had the volume up to hear them and Californian came in like a bullhorn right to the eardrum), why the Frankfurt got told off (They were not using a Marconi set, therefore a competitor), and why Olympic called for a clear channel, as Titantic couldnt hear them over the clutter. they usually use "CQ" at the beginning as well to clear the channel, and the D in "CQD" means "Distress". So the prefix sent codes plus someone trained in receiving these messages to the point they can focus on one at a time is how they are able to tell which set is sending to them.
Actually, it wasn't technically his job to give ice warnings to the bridge. He was there to send passenger messages and worked for Marconi, not White Star Line. This changed after the disaster.
titanic used a spark gap transmitter. more like bzzzzt bzzzzt . liked the documentary though. had read the messages in a book called a "night to remember ."
CQD means ALL STATIONS DISTRESS Distress means help needed now. And the newer SOS was also an emergency message. The only circumstances for that are either sinking, stranded (no power) or pirates.
He didn’t know how bad it was right away. Don’t forget they told most of the people getting in the lifeboats they’d most likely be back on in time for breakfast
It was fortunate that the comm unit was repaired otherwise she would have sank in silence. Regarding the actual communications, it was so sad that a 4 hours estimate for arrival was too long… and the Titanic crew knew it.
Imagine if they had no Marconi radio & flares out of range. No one would have known and it would have taken days if ever, before survivors in life boats would be spotted.
Could you guys imagine if there was no such thing as communication on ships Like Titanic titanic would be one of those ships that went missing. C q d means come quick distress
You would think the maker of this video would check his work before uploading, titanic struck iceberg sunday night at 11.40pm and sank early monday morning on the 15th, not at 11,40pm on monday, you are a whole 24hours out, otherwise its a good video
Yes I'm so sorry about that. It was a typo and after someone pointed out the mistake much later, I couldn't face re-editing the video again. I decided to suffer the consequences from knowledgeable people such as yourself.
@@bojack99 She hit the iceberg on the night of the 14th and SANK in the early hours of the 15th. This should be public knowledge. And you do realize I posted the previous comment 5 years ago. And the only way I can PROVE it is by asking you to look into the disaster. RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH. That's how most of us became educated in the disaster. Through books and eyewitness accounts and primary sources. EDUCATION is the only way to PROVE what happened.
@@bojack99 Do you really have nothing better to do than harass other people? I don't know if you're having a bad day or whatever, but that doesn't mean you can harass other people. They have footage of the wreck. I know youtube has footage. And I got better things to do than argue with you.
Yup. Once the operator aboard Carpathia heard come at once old man, he stood up and burst into the captain’s quarters. Everyone said it was a prank, but he knew it was the real Titanic due to his bestie using his nickname. They pushed their engines to break neck speed and went faster than it was designed. Racing to her aid.
Nothing done by the crew that night was any different than other ships were doing at the time. They didn’t “ignore” the warnings. They weren’t going too fast. Binoculars wouldn’t have helped. Everything was absolutely perfect for the titanic to hit that berg. None of it was due to negligence
I don't think i can listen to morse code for the entire video. If it doesn't stop in the next minute im out. They could speak the messages without the damn beeping. We get it already!!
If you are going to have an audio narration track and a sound effects track you have to modulate the volume on one or the other. Listening to the words is made harder by also having to listen to loud Morse code. Moreover the Morse code gets old. I stopped listening after less than a minute.
Using computer-generated, synthesized voices seem crude and disrespectful to the sacred memory of the Titanic, particularly with such personal messages.
I wasn't expecting this to make me cry - but it did. Hearing Titanic's voice be distorted by static. It's heart wrenching
For some reason I got really emotional when the Olympic was finally able to get a message through to titanic
Because Olympic finally heard from her stricken sister.
For me it's when Titanic goes silent 😢
I agree xxx
@chriseagle6501 the power was slowly going. The range kept getting shorter. They were still transmitting but no one could hear as they weren't in range.
Me two😭😭😭
The mounting terror and speed at which he relays the SOS messages is heart breaking
SOS was new at the time so if any ship was using that it was serious
Yeah
16:26 In case anyone is wondering why Titanic is calling V twice, this is because Jack Phillips was sending test signals, as Bride was adjusting dials to compensate for the growing loss of power.
Tyrunner0097 pair of lemons
I've honestly wondered about that. SOS is ... --- ... V is ...-
(...-)--... doesn't seem unreasonable to explain the V. Beginning of an SOS that got cut off for lack of power. Doesn't seem like waiting for a test signal fits the urgency in that Marconi office at the time. In Bride's situation I'd be trying to transmit SOS immediately if I thought the transmitter could do it.
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I have been studying Titanic since I was 8 years old.. so about 19 years, and this brought so many emotions to me. Sitting in a dark room listening to this, though not an original recording, it's still bringing back the voice of that mighty ship, and Jack Phillips.. I am speechless. Completely and utterly speechless.. I lack the words to describe how I feel after hearing this.. and accompanied by photographs and artwork in the clip.. wow. what more can I say than wow.. thank you so very much for compiling this and sharing it with us. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
You made me cry. Really.
Nathan Burke Do you know anything’s out your genealogy? My mother is a Burke. Just curious...
It seems from this that Carpathia wasn't the closest ship.
Mount Temple said they were 50 miles out whereas Carpathia was 58 miles out.
its been 8 years since you made this comment but there is a video on YT of the entire sequence of marconi messages that if you haven't watched, you will absolutely love. ua-cam.com/video/FxRN2nP_9dA/v-deo.html
Olympic:"Are you coming to meet us?"
Titanic: "BRUH, WE ARE PUTTING PEOPLE IN BOATS. THE BOW OF THE SHIP IS UNDERWATER. IS YOU SLOW."
Carpathia was a total chad though. Only rated for 14 knots and did 17 knots that night.
"WE ARE ON OUR WAY OLD MAN, DOING 3 KNOTS OVER MAX RATED SPEED, WE WILL EITHER COME TO YOUR RESCUE, OR COME APART TRYING."
Olympic was too, didn't need to come to the rescue, but did anyway, lighting all boilers. Little known fact, after meeting with the Carpathia after recovering the survivors, the Olympic's captian at the time, Herbert Haddock, requested the band to not play any songs the rest of the way back to Southampton, out of respect for the lives lost on Titanic.
Pls this is a sad thing but your first response of Titanic to Olympic is sending me lmao xD
@amberap2827 Reading the messages, that's the vibe I got out of it, and how I pictured Jack Phillips would have said it in modern day lingo. And honestly, knowing the crap he went through the previous 48 hours, it's not a far stretch from the truth. Considering he stayed up all night Saturday with Harold Bride, fixing the wireless(which was HIGHLY forbidden against, but he did anyway) and worked all day plowing through the backlog of passenger messages, finishing at midnight. Dude had been up for around 37 hours straight with barely any sleep and now he is on a sinking ship. I would be snippy too.
Greetings,
The older and longer BBC version of "CQD -- The Titanic in Her Own Words" has apparently been recently taken down, likely due to copyright issues.
Thank heavens this version is still with us, albeit shorter, but still effectively recreates very well, the history and that sad and terrible moment -- when Titanic speaks, "in her own words", as she is dying.
I have been a student of Titanic and Carpathia history for 62 years. This still brings tears to my eyes every time I hear this production.
Thanks, "old man".
No wonder I couldn't find the orginainal on here, I've been looking this past day for that original video.
She sank in the early hours of the 15th April. She hit the iceberg at aprox 23:40 on the 14th April. I know on the video I got the date wrong but I don't want to go and make it all again. As long as you know, that's the main thing :)
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Amazing to hear all this in words, thank you.
Could you imagine the firemen in these other ships.
Running full steam for hours trying to get on site.
Most overlooked efforts of the whole event, as admirable as her finest officers that night.
Fighting to the very end. They called for help until they couldn't anymore.
They are truly heroes and they saved lives that night.
If only they relayed the ice warning to the captian maybe nobody would have died that night
@@HY-mv4eq maybe maybe not. We don't know.
@@HY-mv4eq The crew was aware of there being icebergs that night, they'd had multiple warnings from a lot of ships along the way. Even if they hadn't been warned about ice, they would have been careful anyways, because they were familiar with the route and knew that icebergs were very common in the area that time of year. Modern analysis of the weather conditions that night shows they were almost certainly dealing with a false horizon mirage, so they couldn't have possibly seen the iceberg that killed them until it was right on top of them - even if they had been on high alert, there really wasn't any hope of dodging. The captain of the Carpathia later testified that he was absolutely risking his own ship running to help the Titanic, as there was no chance in hell HE could dodge an iceberg in those conditions, and it was quite literally an act of god that prevented them from having their own crash.
The tragedy wasn't anyone's fault. It was just... a freak accident at the worst possible time and place. Which is really hard to acknowledge, but sometimes tragedies happen, even when everybody does the right thing.
Unless they were on the Californian, in which case they were doing sweet fuckall, but y'know. Apart from them, everyone involved did pretty much everything in their power to prevent this and then minimize damage in the aftermath.
@ko7577Bride actually survived. Phillips did not.
@@HY-mv4eqexcept it was standard practice at the time to go full speed until ice was actually sighted. Smith also adjusted course further south with previous ice warnings.
It’s so crazy on how many ships were chatting in one moment to titanic, and the two wireless operators on the Titanic Harold bride and Jack Phillips and how stressed they were as you can just hear the such fast tapping of them. They saved 700 lives that night, those 2 men, 700 others.
They ignored the ice warning. Told the Californian to shut up and never relayed the message to the captian one could argue they got 1500 people killed that night.
Phillips killed 1500 people (including himself) by not sending ice berg warnings to the bridge
If it wasn’t for them then Titanic would have been just another ghost ship
Not to forget that it was Jack Phillips who did not relay the message of SS Californian of being surrounded by ice to the bridge which could be one of the main reasons for not slowing down the speed on that fateful night.
They did but they did not give the bridge the USS Meseba ice warning as it pertained to Titanics path. That would have saved everybody. Those messages have to go out first, passenbers message second. It cost the peopled that died their lives due to the bridge having insufficent warning.
We hear you Titanic. We still hear you old boy.
@7812 productions Haha, I do see your point. But that's not how they referred to one another.
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@@KG-ds2fj wrong, the operator on either ship were close friends, they called each other Old Man
@@ajorngjdonaydbr I didn't say they weren't friends however...?And OP very much seems to be talking about the ship,not the operators.
At last we get to hear Titanic in her own words talking back and forth with the other ships during her final moments of life.
I felt this in my soul. You can hear the panic and desperation.
This is Amazing! I love the use of the Mechanical voices- makes it fit really well with the 'feel' of Morse code. Well done!
I know it’s mechanical robotic voices. But I love that you can hear the fear in the voice of Cape race when they are telling the Virginian that they are much closer to Titanic than the Olympic
This is very well done, but at the same time it hurts. The music towards the end really hits. As the video goes on longer, It's as if you can hear the Titanic slowly dying. Both literally, by the ship slowly foundering (sinking), and figuratively, by it's wireless signal (The Titanic's voice) slowly dying out.
As well, you can almost feel the stress of the situation start to come over the Titanic's wireless officers. In the beginning, they were trying to give as much information as possible, give out their coordinates, communicate back and forth with each ship addressing the Titanic, and generally respond as best they could.
But towards the end, as the ship got worse and the power really began to falter; they were messaging CQD and SOS repeatably hoping anyone would still hear it. They constantly messaged of their failing situation. Even with a failing signal, they tried to stay in contact with, and were all but begging the Carpathia for help, believing her to be their only hope for rescue by that point.
It's crazy to think, ships still reported hearing broken up and garbled CQD's and SOS's from the Titanic minutes before she went under, in her very final moments. The dedication of these men, I will not forget.
Thank you for the great video
I love how wholesome this is. Everyone rushing to help, relaying messages, and trying to provide aid. Towards the end it gets cluttered, but the messages are the same “Hang on! We’re on our way.” And “Titanic needs assistance. Any ship in the area please aid the stricken liner. They have a CQD.”
The sadness operators must have felt once she fell silent for the final time. Knowing they couldn’t reach her in time.
The horror amongst all the ships when they realized none were close enough to save them. Imagine if they had no Marconi radio and flares out of range. No one would have known and it would have taken days before survivors in life boats would be spotted, if ever. A mystery.
So powerfully moving. So very sad.
Wow. Ive been a student of Titanic for 27 years now, and every couple of years this ship appears back in my pcyche and the books and videos come out. This brings me closer to this ship then any other video ive watched. So sad.. its almost like the voices are the titanic making the pleas by herself.
Full vocalized transcripts between all the ships up until the Titanic founders. ua-cam.com/video/FxRN2nP_9dA/v-deo.html
No fictional drama could ever top this 😢
The operators on Titanic clearly didn't seem to think the ice warnings really applied to them and that final one from the Californian was chilling {no pun} and then to hear Titanic's response kind of makes you angry in a way but they also did not have a crystal ball. It also struck me 1.) how many ships offered assistance even though some were more than 100 miles off and 2) Olympic's concern for her sister ship in spite of being 500 miles away. They went full steam towards her position immediately and wanted to do everything possible to help...must have been so frustrating.
11months late but, the reason they snapped at Californian is because they were up all night fixing the radio so they were a little irritable and it was turned all the way up to talk to Cape Race so Californian's transmission was just a super loud ringing in the operator's ears
Also, the wireless operators were not employed by White Star to pass on operational messages. They were employed by Marconi to send passenger messages and that is how they got paid (if I remember right they got commission from every message they sent or received). It wasn't until after this event that the true importance of radio for safety was really realised.
The Californian could have. The officers on deck after their wireless operator went to sleep noticed the port list, rockets and morse lamp. The captain should have woken up their marconi operator and tried. They were no 23 miles away. They maybe could have saved 200 more. Of course White Star is the biggest problem in removing the life boats as to give 1st class passengers a better view. Phillips the operator should have sent the USS Meseba message to the bridge and didn't. That would have gave them time to slow down or hunker down for the night. Lightroller said he would have but he never got it.
@@Ben-rh9kr
A lot wrong, Titanics crew didn't signal distress properly, they sent up the rockets for 'Navigation Issues: Stay Clear' instead, Californian was probably thinking that or company rockets.
As to the lifeboats, think of the lifeboats of the time period, wooden deathtraps that in a storm would kill people and only fit to transport people to shore or another ship nearby. Something wasn't rectified until much later.
Plus with how Titanics crew could barely handle 20 lifeboats, 32 or 48 was outside of them plus with the failure of leadership aboard, the Third Class would've still gotten screwed
One thing that always strikes me is the similarity between the messages here, and the recordings of the SOS messages from Estonia that sank in the 90s. Despite being 80 years later and technology being so much better, there is still that feeling of hopelessness as the other ships are racing to the scene, especially when both ships go silent. In that case too, even though they arrive much faster, instead of a ship they find lifeboats and people floating in the sea.
3:20, the famous response via wireless
Californian tried to warn them the second time. And...Dorothy Gibson's family sending kisses is the reason Titanic hit the iceberg....
Sad how titanic sank on her first maiden voyage it still shocks me and imagine how many people are scared when the ship broke in half in the stern also rest in piece jack philips 1912
Harold bride - 1950s
This whole Morse code system was kind of like a group chat between ships
Oh my God this is terrifying.
The morse code was like one huge conference conversation between dozens of ships at the same time
It was emmm… loud…
Hearing the the call that the engine room was flooding was practically right at the end. So sad
Listening to this makes me feel and imagine how Bride and Philips tryed their best😢❤
They stayed until the very end. Mad Respect.
This was a very interesting video to watch and listen to. Thanks for sharing this video.
Jesus, that was horrific
Even though the Olympic was on its way to assist. The Olympic asked the Carpathia if they wanted them to take all of the titanic survivors but it was decided that since the Olympic was basically a near identical ship to the titanic that that would be a bad idea, and it could cause issues among the survivors so basically, they made sure that the Olympics did not get anywhere near the Carpathia for the protection of the survivors
Bruce Ismay made that decision, he knew it would cause so much distress
I loved the older video I hope it comes back on UA-cam.. I loved listening to the longer version of the distress calls from titanic I wish they didn't take it down does anyone know if the longer version of this will be back on UA-cam after the copyright issues are over?? I loved to hear the longer version!! I wish that this video could be made into the older longer version
Yes! Thats the one i'm looking for!
ua-cam.com/video/FxRN2nP_9dA/v-deo.html
this is truly sad. the wireless operators did above and beyond the Call of duty.
So Sad...Crying :(
Gave me chills
I think close to end it gets distorted to represent the lose in power
What’s causing that static noise at 12:47?
At that point the engine room was flooding and the electricity comes from the steam in the engine room. The Marconi Wireless set can't reach long distances without power so it was starting to get quieter and fill with static
Thanks for explaining it @@jwfanatic
It would have been a result of the dwindling steam supply and power. The engineers went down with the ship to give these operators as long as they could to get help.
Thanks for explaining that @@Real_Moon-Moon
@@JeffreyBarkdull
In other words, it was the ship’s various life support systems failing as it sank.
Very good subject thanks for sharing.
Studied her since I was a kid. I recently learn my 7th cousin was Thomas Andrews
1:53 That sure looks like the BREMEN or EUROPA of 1929/30, FWIW.
A minor nit but the lead in text is incorrect. The Titanic struck the berg at 11:40 PM on Sunday April 14th. She sank on Monday April 15th.
Yes I know. Someone else pointed out the exact same thing some time ago. I couldn't face having to go and re-edit the video again so I decided to leave it and face the consequences :)
What a fatally stupid thing for Phillips to have done telling the Californian radio operator to shut up. The guy gave up warning Phillips and turned in for the night. Unbelievable.
I bet in hindsight he regretted saying that!
The shut up bit is just Marconi operator etiquette of the time that sounds more rude than it is. The guy on the other end would not have been offended. The ice warnings were also old news to the crew by that point, one more wasn't going to change anything.
He was overloaded with passenger messages and said it out of frustration but the Californian to not investigate the rockets they saw and the lamps they saw flashing is baffling to me.
@@ryans413ight? I understand that rockets weren’t shot up at the right intervals and the Morse lamp was difficult to make out but at what point during the confusion would you finally say “go wake up the wireless guy”. I don’t blame the Californian crew for not understanding but I do believe they could’ve done much more.
@@BrennanBarrier if they we’re confused I would have just radioed Titanic too check in. They could have said we see rockers and lamps are you okay. That simple yes they were confused but didn’t radio back and I think it was because Jack Phillips originally told them to shut up.
Btw, where did the morse code effects come from?
Kanefan701 It was made and put together in an Alphebet, or example, .... . .-.. .-.. --/.-.. .- -.. ...
I'm sad,I want to watch Titanic and can not😭😭
This feels like a group chat convo
10:11 Huge chaos
Who’s the ship that interrupts the mount temple at 9:37
I like how u use EAS voices like Paul and Tom for thus video.
This is Olympic on the way full sleep. Fuck man that broke my heart imagine your sister going down and you cant save her
Why do they tell the SS Frankfurt to keep out at 15:20? Can anybody explain
SS Frankfurt was the first ship to reply to Titanic. at that point Titanic had explained to the Frankfurt 3 separate times. Frankfurt had asked "shall i tell my capt." on the first reply and then asked again later. At that point Titanic was loosing power
This comment is four years old and I'm sure you've probably received a satisfactory answer by now, but for anyone else who comes across this:
Frankfurt was a German ship and IIRC the operators didn't understand English very well. They were having a difficult time piecing together Titanic's situation and kept asking things like "Shall I tell my captain?", "Should I come to your assistance?", "You're putting people in boats? You are ok then?", "You don't need our help? You do? Yes? No?" et cetera.
In the video you hear the final exchange between them:
> Frankfurt: We are 100 miles off. What is the matter with you?
> Titanic: FOOL! YOU FOOL! STAND BY! STAND BY! STAND BY AND KEEP OUT! KEEP OUT!
Keep in mind, Frankfurt just asked Titanic what the deal with their CQD is after repeatedly being told by Titanic and other ships that Titanic had struck an iceberg, was sinking, and was in desperate need of immediate assistance. Essentially, Frankfurt is the og "VAT ARE YOU SINKING ABOUT?"
Eventually Jack Phillips got tired of dealing with Frankfurt's shit while also dealing with the chaos of trying to juggle all the other ships he was communicating with, and so he called Frankfurt a fool and told them to shut up and stay out of the conversation.
@@LordAmerican Thank you
What folks previously said is true, Frankfurt was polluting the audio with pointless questions plus he said "we're 100 miles of" That distance means it'll take them a better part of a day to reach Titanic so it might as well be a million miles away for all Phillips cared.
@@LordAmerican Eh, part of it was Phillip's frustration, but moreso Frankfurt had a competing set. It was not Marconi. The dire situation at first had them talking, but between the frustrating questions and the stress of the situation, his training kicked in and told the competing operator to "keep out".
I never understood why White Star Line never implemented a second amchine a another set of operators. If MArconi operated on 1 frequency and you offfered a service of sending passengers messages, then wouldn't it make more sense for 1 machine to receive and focus on important warnings and the other on basic, civil stuff? You can potnetially miss a crucial warning, like what happened with Philips.
They actually did have two sets, though one was a backup emergency set with a limited range. I don't think ot would be too helpful to have two different marconi machines for the same purpose since they have to use the same frequency. It would just mean that both sets would receive the same messages and interfere with each other.
@@Railfan105. this makes no sense. With your logic, if 1 ship sends a message, everyone hears it. That's true, they had 1 frequency. But how loud it is depends on the distance from you to the sender. But you aren't the only one sending messages. So how the fuck are you supposed to know which dashes and dots are from your message? This is truly interesting.
@i s plus they were super expensive so putting 2 on there would be way to expensive.
@@HyperVegitoDBZ Actually that is not how that works. When you have the original system, it has more of a power supply so it's able to reach much more distance than its emergency counterpart. The emergency can only reach about 50 miles where the regular can go over 200 in good conditions. Also, the other ships can be sending messages so their frequencies can clash with each other making it hard to decipher who is saying what. People are trained in how to decipher messages but when multiple people try to send at once it makes things very difficult.
@@HyperVegitoDBZ How are you supposed to know who's message is what? The receiver hears the beginning of the message which calls out the call letters of the set they are talking to, which in Titantic's case is MGY. Which is one of the reasons Phillips told the California to shut up (They were closer, and Cape was far away, he had the volume up to hear them and Californian came in like a bullhorn right to the eardrum), why the Frankfurt got told off (They were not using a Marconi set, therefore a competitor), and why Olympic called for a clear channel, as Titantic couldnt hear them over the clutter. they usually use "CQ" at the beginning as well to clear the channel, and the D in "CQD" means "Distress". So the prefix sent codes plus someone trained in receiving these messages to the point they can focus on one at a time is how they are able to tell which set is sending to them.
rest in peace all.
Those early 20th century social media posts are why the jackass operator didn't send the severe iceberg warnings to the bridge
Actually, it wasn't technically his job to give ice warnings to the bridge. He was there to send passenger messages and worked for Marconi, not White Star Line. This changed after the disaster.
titanic used a spark gap transmitter. more like bzzzzt bzzzzt . liked the documentary though. had read the messages in a book called a "night to remember ."
Yes, it was not a beep beep sound. I noticed that too. Other than that it's a good video 👍
when dose the carpathia respond
6:38 is when they start communicating to each other.
"- .... .. ... / .. ... / .- / -.-. --.- -.. / --- .-.. -.. / -- .- -. -.-.--"
Operator is niot even making iii clear ship is sinking at first
CQD means
ALL STATIONS
DISTRESS
Distress means help needed now.
And the newer SOS was also an emergency message.
The only circumstances for that are either sinking, stranded (no power) or pirates.
He didn’t know how bad it was right away. Don’t forget they told most of the people getting in the lifeboats they’d most likely be back on in time for breakfast
How did we get these records?
There were recorders back than?
Yes, I am dumb!
The stations and ships kept record of every message sent and received.
nice job...
It was fortunate that the comm unit was repaired otherwise she would have sank in silence.
Regarding the actual communications, it was so sad that a 4 hours estimate for arrival was too long… and the Titanic crew knew it.
Imagine if they had no Marconi radio & flares out of range. No one would have known and it would have taken days if ever, before survivors in life boats would be spotted.
"Dining with you in spirit tonight" 😨
Hereing this is Sad, definitely when Olympic is calling her Diying Sister Titanic
15:25
Could you guys imagine if there was no such thing as communication on ships Like Titanic titanic would be one of those ships that went missing. C q d means come quick distress
You would think the maker of this video would check his work before uploading, titanic struck iceberg sunday night at 11.40pm and sank early monday morning on the 15th, not at 11,40pm on monday, you are a whole 24hours out, otherwise its a good video
Yes I'm so sorry about that. It was a typo and after someone pointed out the mistake much later, I couldn't face re-editing the video again. I decided to suffer the consequences from knowledgeable people such as yourself.
I'd like to see this done again but in real time
You can literally find it on UA-cam
@@ajorngjdonaydbr I've searched what is the name of the video?
This so sad 😢😢😢😢
Titanic hit the iceberg on Sunday April 14th, 1912 not the 15th.
Prove it
@@bojack99 she struck the burg in April 14, she ranked beneath the surface In April 15
@@bojack99 She hit the iceberg on the night of the 14th and SANK in the early hours of the 15th. This should be public knowledge. And you do realize I posted the previous comment 5 years ago. And the only way I can PROVE it is by asking you to look into the disaster. RESEARCH RESEARCH RESEARCH. That's how most of us became educated in the disaster. Through books and eyewitness accounts and primary sources. EDUCATION is the only way to PROVE what happened.
@@ryandixon9971 prove it
@@bojack99 Do you really have nothing better to do than harass other people? I don't know if you're having a bad day or whatever, but that doesn't mean you can harass other people. They have footage of the wreck. I know youtube has footage. And I got better things to do than argue with you.
Oh that was quite. Hard to hear x
3:20
KEEP OUT! SHUT UP! SHUT UP! IM WORKING CAPE RACE!
Yep. Im out. Camt handle all the morse code beeping!
Grow up
The TITANIC hit the iceberg at 11:40 pm on Sunday, April 14 and sank at 2:20am on Monday April 15. You're a day off.
Wow, it starts already wrong ... Titanic hit the iceberg on the 14th, not 15th.
It’s a simple mistake god
Titanic: Cant read you, Old man hahahhahahah
The two operators on either ship called each other Old Man because they were best friends
Yup. Once the operator aboard Carpathia heard come at once old man, he stood up and burst into the captain’s quarters. Everyone said it was a prank, but he knew it was the real Titanic due to his bestie using his nickname. They pushed their engines to break neck speed and went faster than it was designed. Racing to her aid.
Lol I had to stop at the first sentence. When the first sentence is wrong, no point watching the rest of it.
It was a typo
Captain Smith should not ignore that ice warning...
He didn't he changed course South putting them on a direct collision course with the iceberg.
He didn’t
The message was never relayed to the Captain.
Nothing done by the crew that night was any different than other ships were doing at the time. They didn’t “ignore” the warnings. They weren’t going too fast. Binoculars wouldn’t have helped. Everything was absolutely perfect for the titanic to hit that berg. None of it was due to negligence
@@prashanthr6840are you thick in the head? He never got the message so assumed he could go full steam ahead to reach New York in record time
I don't think i can listen to morse code for the entire video. If it doesn't stop in the next minute im out. They could speak the messages without the damn beeping. We get it already!!
So because you're too stupid to understand morse code which is how these messages were originally sent then we all have to suffer? Get over yourself
HOW DARE U RUIN SEEBES VOICE AT THE END OF THE VID
Bro this video was made before sebee even made his channel
Oh
Seebee doesn't own the voice anyways, he uses the text to speech for the roblox vids but does not own
hi I josh
If you are going to have an audio narration track and a sound effects track you have to modulate the volume on one or the other. Listening to the words is made harder by also having to listen to loud Morse code. Moreover the Morse code gets old. I stopped listening after less than a minute.
Ok
Okay, the rest of us listened to the end. How nick-picky!
The reason people even watches this is because of the movie
I watch it because I'm I live in Belfast and had three family members build the Titanic. Don't be so short sighted you clown
What
Using computer-generated, synthesized voices seem crude and disrespectful to the sacred memory of the Titanic, particularly with such personal messages.
The messages were not relayed via voice. It was all in morse code you fool.
CQD CQD DE MGY
Its all about the money (mammon) its like the twin towers no wane givis of normel people
Try using English
Cqd who cares 🙄
You do, you commented about it.
I meant to watch it but the constant beeping was so annoying. This video would be better off without it.
Its morse fucking code
that’s the whole point of the video genius
That's....kinda the point of the video.
Is the mose code, thats how they communicated each other
Funnily enough they said the same thing on the Olympic