Titanic telegrams

A distress message sent from the Titanic to the Celtic, and one of many messages from surviving passengers giving news of their own safety and reporting on missing relatives or companions.

Transcript

263, fols 86-7: Telegram from Titanic to Celtic, 15 April 1912: ‘CQD require assistance position 41.46N / 50.14W struck iceberg. Titanic’

263, fol. 126: Sagaponack station, 18 Apr 1912: ‘Winnipeg Man / Mother girls safe father charlie missing. Meet us belmont N York.’

[Source: MS]

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