[CW] Sinking of Marine Electric

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

I will have to search for an amazing story about WOOH and how I met the
Chief Mate - who survived.  R/O Albian Lane sadly perished - Al had one of
the most beautiful fists I've ever heard I used to tune below the Broadcast
Band on my car radio and listened to NMF (in town here in Marshfield, MA)
and NMN down in Virginia - and of course, the big commercial stations, WCC
Chatham, MA and WSL on Long Island.

Around 10 AM when Al was aboard WOOH he'd send his WX OBS (Weather
Observation) to either NMF or NMN depending if he was north of south in the
trip between VA and MA.

73
DR


On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Richard Knoppow
<1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

>     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
>>
>
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