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Was there no radio or telegraph on board, or did they not have time to signal their position??
by bambax 11y ago
Was there no radio or telegraph on board, or did they not have time to signal their position??
- Shivetya 11y agoWell radio was certainly available at the time this ship went down, however if the article suggestions are correct then waves may have crashed through the wheelhouse and that likely would have flooded out the radio room as well if not just the general mayhem of the rough seas. they could have simply engulfed, as in to go bow into a big wave and never come back out. I cannot find information the directly states what type of radio it may have had
- willyt 11y agoIt's not unheard of for ships to be overwhelmed by heavy seas. Here's an accident investigation report into the loss of a large freezer trawler in storm in the Barents Sea. The ship was thought to have lost steering, went beam on to the seas and was overwhelmed due to an incorrectly secured hatch. https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/sinking-of-stern-trawler-gaul-in-the-barents-sea-with-loss-of-36-lives https://www.gov.uk/maib-reports/sinking-of-stern-trawler-gau...
- mcguire 11y agoI have no idea why they didn't send a distress message, but how accurately would they know their position in a storm in 1921?
- willyt 11y agoThe officer of the watch would be expected to plot the position on the chart every 15-20 mins so even a DR position would probably have been accurate to within ~10 miles.