It was faint, relaying across about 2,000 miles, but Mrs. Otto Redfern at United Wireless in Duluth said she heard the Morse call tap from Jack Phillips: "CQD DE MGY. CQD DE MGY. CQD DE MGY. CQD DE ...

Titanic's wireless distress calls, illustrated in a news item of April 17, 1912. The Day Books of Chicago, via Papershake More than 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic, but more than 700 ...

The RMS Titanic leaves Belfast, 1912. * Photo: Courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records Administration * 1904: "CQD" is adopted as the international distress signal for the operators of Marconi ...

CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. — A North Carolina weather bureau is the only known wireless station in the country to have received the first distress call from the RMS Titanic, officials said. On April 14, 1912 ...

"Come at once. We have struck a berg. It's a CQD, old man," the Titanic called to another ship, the Carpathia. "We have struck an iceberg and sinking by the head," she told a German ship, the ...

On the night the Titanic struck an iceberg, a network of wireless operators on ships and land stations frantically communicated with each other across the expanses of the North Atlantic in an effort ...