Prologue

The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the Loss of the Titanic)
By Thomas Hardy (1912)

I In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity, / And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
II Steel chambers, late the pyres / Of her salamandrine fires, / Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.
III Over the mirrors meant / To glass the opulent / The sea-worm crawls — grotesque, slimed, dumb, indifferent.
IV Jewels in joy designed / To ravish the sensuous mind / Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.
V Dim moon-eyed fishes near / Gaze at the gilded gear / And query: "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" ...
VI Well: while was fashioning / This creature of cleaving wing, / The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything
VII Prepared a sinister mate / For her — so gaily great — / A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.
VIII And as the smart ship grew / In stature, grace, and hue, / In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.
IX Alien they seemed to be; / No mortal eye could see / The intimate welding of their later history,
X Or sign that they were bent / By paths coincident / On being anon twin halves of one august event,
XI Till the Spinner of the Years / Said "Now!" And each one hears, / And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.

Some parts of this article still to be translated - meanwhile: please browse the German version, even if you do not speak German

Titanic QSL Gallery hier
The radio station and the radio officers F Die Funkstation - MGY
The Maiden Voyage H1 Die Chronik der Katastrophe: 3.-13. April 1912
Sunday, 14 April 1912: "Ice ahead!" H2 Die Chronik der Katastrophe: 14. April 1912
11.40 p.m.: The collision H3 Die Chronik der Katastrophe: 14./15. April 2012
Monday, 15 April 1912: SOS from the "Titanic" H4 Die Chronik der Katastrophe: 15.-20. April 1912
Breaking the news around the world H5 Die Chronik der Katastrophe: Die Nachricht geht um die Welt
Links, Audio, DokuFunk Research: The Traffic Log... I Dokumentation, Hörspiel, Link-Empfehlungen

01 - Radio Titanic. A ‘free radio station’ from the Netherlands
02 - Radio Titanic. A ‘free radio station’ from the Netherlands. QSL based on a poster of the White Star Line
03 - 26HS120. Italian CB-station, 2012
04 - Alfa Tango. Italian CB-station, 2012
05- CG1T. 2012 Centennial Anniversary Commemorating The Sinking Of the Titanic
06 - DDH47. 100th Anniversary (2012) – Crossband
07- DDH47. 100th Anniversary (2012) – Crossband
08 – DM100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
09 – EA2ID. 100th Anniversary (2012)
10 - EG5MGY. 95th Anniversary (2007)
11 - EH3MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
12 – EI100T. 100th Anniversary (2012)
13 – EI1MGY. 100th h Anniversary (2012)
14 – G2DXU. 100th Anniversary (2012)
15 – GB0BTC. 100th Anniversary (2012)
16 - GB0BTC. The QSL of GB0BTC (=Belfast Titanic City) is based on the poster of the White Star Line, to memorize the launch of the ship, 1911-05-31, at the dockyard Harland & Wolff.
17 - GB0BTC. GB0BTC (=Belfast Titanic City”) commemorating the ship’s launch, 1911-05-31, at the dockyard Harland & Wolff.
18 – GB0MGY. International Marconi Day 2008
19 - GB0MPA. 1998-04-05, MPA was the call sign of the Carpathia who rescued 507 survivors of the Titanic.
20 - GB0TI. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
21 – GB100C. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
22 – GB100GGM. 100th Anniversary (2012)
23 – GB100GGM. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
24 – GB100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
25 – GB100MPA. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
26 - GB100MPA. Carpathia - 100th Anniversary (2012)
27 – GB100MPA. MS Carpathia
28 - GB100MUC. 100th Anniversary (2012)
29 – GB100MWT. 100th Anniversary (2012)
30 – GB100WSL. 100th Anniversary (2012)
31 – GB1HMGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
32 – GB1WSL. 100th Anniversary (2012)
33 – GB2ICE. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
34 – GB2MB. 100th Anniversary (2012)
35 – GB2MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
36 – GB2MGY. “Sinking, wants immediate assistance”
37 – GB2MGY. Titanic Expo 2002 exhibition, Dundee, Scotland
38 – GB2WG. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
39 – GB4M. 100th Anniversary (2012)
40 – GB4M. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
41 – GB4T. 100th Anniversary (2012)
42 - GB4T. 100th Anniversary (2012)

43 - GB90MGY. 90th Anniversary (1992), in memory of the radio operator Jack Phillips
44 - GB95MGY. 95th Anniversary (2007)
45 - GI100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
46 – GI2012MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
47 - GI2012MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
48- GR100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
49 - II1MGY. 101st Anniversary (2013)
50 - II1MGY. 101st Anniversary (2013) back side
51 - K1T (back). 100th Anniversary (2012)
52 - K1T (front). 100th Anniversary (2012)
53 - OM2015TITANIC. Exhibition (2015)
54 - ON100TT. 100th Anniversary (2012)
55 - ON100TT. 100th Anniversary (2012)
56 – OO100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
57 – OR100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
58 - OR100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
59 – OT100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
60 – PA100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
61 – PC100T. 100th Anniversary (2012)
62 - PH100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
63 - RA3DBK. Yuri’s, key RA3DBK, (handmade by Valery, RA1AOM) is an exact copy of the Titanic’s telegraph key
64 - SK100MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
65 – SP0CFF. In memory of Jack Philips and Harold Bride
66 – TM5MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
67 – Titanic Convention. 100th Anniversary (2012) ÷MH
68 - VK2MGY- 80th Anniversary (1992) with the Titanic’s call sign MGY and the distress codes CQD and SOS.
69 – VK5QJ. Titanic ship model
70 - VO1MCE. 100th Anniversary (2012). Cape Race, Newfoundland
71 - VO1MGY. 90th Anniversary (2002)
72 - W0S. 100th Anniversary (2012)
73 - W0S. 100th Anniversary (2012)
74 - W0S. 95th Anniversary (2007)
75 - W0S. 96th Anniversary (2008)
76 - W0S. 97th Anniversary (2009)
77 - W0S. 98th Anniversary (2010)
78 - W0S. 99th Anniversary (2011)
79 - W1MGY. “That the memory and history be preserved for future generations.”
80 - W4S. 100th Anniversary (2012)
81 – W6MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
82 – WB8DQT.
83 – W0S (back side). 100th Anniversary (2012)
84 – Z9FB/TA. 100th Anniversary (2012)
85 - ZW7MGY. 100th Anniversary (2012)
86 - EA2BJ. Memorial-QSL
87, 88 - GB106TB. 106th Anniversary (2018)

The Desaster Inquieries and the Final Report

The following link leads you to the complete transcripts of both the US Senate and British Board of Trade inquiries into the disaster, along with their final reports. Transcripts of both the American Senate Hearings, and the British Board of Trade Inquiry into the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Includes testimony of G. Marconi and Titanic wireless operator Harold Bride. ext. Link

The Titanic Disaster

As Dug Out of the Old Congressional Records - by William A. Breniman, K0ZC

CQD CQD SOS SOS DE MGY TITANIC SINKING, PLEASE RUSH ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE, RUSH, RUSH were the few terse, electrifying words clicked out by the wireless operators of the gigantic White Star liner Titanic on the night of April 14, 1912, The startled world was thus given its first inkling of the terrible disaster that befell the doomed liner, and wireless, or radio, was skyrocketed to the attention of the world as a utility and safeguard of the utmost importance.
The Titanic was equipped with a 5 disk discharger, magnetic detector, valve receiver and emergency gear. It was the only vessel afloat that had one of the new disk discharger installations and it boasted a range of about 500 miles at daylight. At the key of the splendid liner were Jack Phillips, chief operator, and Harold S. Bride, 22, second operator. Both were in the employ of the British Marconi Company and were being paid a monthly salary of six and four pounds Sterling, respectively, (about $28.00 and $20.00 in American money), all for being entrusted with the safety of nearly 2500 souls in case of emergency.

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