[CW] Sinking of Marine Electric

[Richard Knoppow]

     This post caused me to research the Marine Electric. 
The story is a fascinating and horrifying one.  See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Marine_Electric

      The distress message transcript is bad enough but 
hearing the actual signals is bone chilling.  Thank you for 
posting it.


--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Sinking of Marine Electric


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