[CW] Sinking of Marine Electric

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

https://archive.org/details/SsMarineElectricWoohSos

SS Marine Electric / WOOH SOS (February 12, 1983)

SS Marine Electric / WOOH SOS 1983 SOS Recording
✩ Distress radio traffic, 500 kHz from SS Marine Electric, call sign WOOH,
SOS as recorded at USCG COMMSTA BOSTON / NMF on February 12, 1983.

A transcript of the decoded Morse Code is also available here. See file:
Transcript_SOS_WOOH
On Dec 24, 2013 8:32 PM, <radioniner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Love the first hand skinny. Ex NMR op. what was the date of this incident?
> John
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 23, 2013, at 6:03 PM, jbeith <jbeith at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> David,
> I was looking at your historical info on the sinking of the Marine
> Electric. I have some more info for you. I was on watch at
> WNU that night. NMA, NMR, NMN, NMF and probably a few others were playing
> the dit dit game on 500kc until about midnight. I heard the auto alarm and
> the distress msg and knew by the position that the vessel was off the coast
> of Virginia and figured NMN would respond. No one answered and he sent it
> again immediately. I answered,  and told him that the Coast Guard in New
> Orleans had the info. He acknowledged and kept sending the SOS. It took NMN
> and NMF about 20 minutes to QSO him. Later that morning he called and said
> he was abandoning ship and thanked me for keeping a tight watch. I wished
> him well. Now you know the rest of the story.
>
> Jack/K5WNU
>
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