Marking
the Centenery of the sinking of TITANIC
Amateur
Radio Station G8JYV is located within 1 nautical mile of the
residences of some of the most senior TITANIC crew including
her Captain, her Founder, and her Managing Director.
This station would like to commemorate the valiant efforts
of Senior Wireless Telegraphist, Jack Phillips, who was trained
at the Marconi School in Seaforth just 1 Nautical Mile from
G8JYV.
The use
of 'nautical miles' for land measurements on this page is
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During
April 2012, G8JYV was active on HF to commemorated the 100th Anniversary
of the tragic loss of Titanic with her crew and passengers. The
aim was to bring awareness of the close TITANIC community of Great
Crosby (Merseyside) and to remember the eight staff and crew who
resided here and for all but one, perished with the Titanic.
Jack
Phillips, Senior Wireless Telegraphist, is commemorated for his
tireless distress calls
Jack was trained at the Marconi School in Seaforth
The map above
shows the senior Titanic crew members who lived in Great Crosby/Waterloo.
It also shows the former residences of the Captains of the Lusitania
and the Empress of Ireland - both ships of which subsequently sank
during service.
Thomas Henry
Ismay
Founder of the WHITE STAR SHIPPING
LINE
1837-1899
Lived in Marine Terrace (0.8 Nautical Miles from G8JYV)
Joseph
Bruce Ismay
Managing
Director of the WHITE STAR LINE
Lived in Enfield House, Great Crosby 1862 - 1937 (0.3 miles from
G8JYV)
Captain
Edward John Smith
Captain
of the TITANIC
Lived in Crosby 1898 - 1907in Marine Terrace (0.8 Nautical Miles
from G8JYV)
Joseph
Bell (1861-1912)
Chief Engineer of the TITANIC
Lived at 1 Belvidere Road, Great Crosby (0.3 Nautical Miles from
G8JYV).
Charles Herbert
Lightoller (1874-1952)
Second Officer of the TITANIC
Lived in Great Crosby 1904-1908 at 8 CambridgeAvenue (0.7 Nautical
Miles from G8JYV)
Bertie Wilson
(1884-1912)
Senior Assistant Second Engineer of the TITANIC
Lived at 16 Norma Road, Waterloo (0.5 Nautical Miles from G8JYV)
Andrew Latimer
(1857-1912)
Chief Steward of the TITANIC
Lived at 4 Glenwyllin Road, Waterloo (0.4 Nautical Miles from G8JYV)
John Reginald
Rice (1886-1912)
Assistant Purser of the TITANIC
Lived at 37 Kimberley Drive, Great Crosby (0.4 Nautical Miles from
G8JYV)
More
details can be found at http://www.titanictown.plus.com/titanictown/titanic.htm
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