Jack Phillips
Jack didn't give the captain the last iceberg warning, what could go wrong?
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Who WAS Jack Phillips?
Who WAS Jack Phillips?
John (a.k.a. Jack) George Phillips was the senior wireless officer aboard the RMS Titanic. He worked tirelessly to send messages to other ships to help rescue of Titanic's passengers and crew.
By: Heather Driscoll-Woodford
Researcher: Melody Ruiz
Revised by: Rebecca Castro
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Text and Image: Jack Phillips ,” the man who tried to save the Titanic.” BBC surrey , BBC surrey July 15,2010 news.bbc.co.uk/local/surrey/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8819000/8819408.stm
Jack Phillips in front of the RMS Titanic
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To summarize this article, it is about a man named Jack Phillips. He was one of the wireless messengers aboard the Titanic. In the article, it states that he and his partner, Harold, were informed of the iceberg and were told that they were sending other ships to go help. Using the exact word it said after hearing they were sending help which by the way never got there it said “By a cruel twist of fate, the Californian's wireless operator had gone to bed, after turning off the equipment, and therefore did not receive the SOS messages.” Also he like most people on the titanic, were given false information. Jack Phillips was only 25 years old when he died, also he celebrated his last birthday two days before the tragedy on the titanic.
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“By a cruel twist of fate, the Californian's wireless operator had gone to bed, after turning off the equipment, and therefore did not receive the SOS messages.”
“As the ship's Chief Wireless Operator, he valiantly transmitted pleas for help until the ship lost power and sank.”
By: 30 James Street, Home of the Titanic
Researcher: Melody Ruiz
Revised by: Rebecca Castro
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Text: “Jack Phillips: The Man Who Saved the 705 RMS Titanic Survivors.” 30 James Street, rmstitanichotel.co.uk/history/jack-phillips-man-saved-705-rms-titanic-survivors/
Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboats_of_the_RMS_Titanic
Titanic survivors in a lifeboat
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According to the article, "However, thanks to his heroic actions, he was able to contact RMS Carpathia who arrived at the scene just before dawn, and rescued the 705 survivors” it tells me that he was actually a helper and he did his job to protect the people on the ship. He was actually a hero that day who died at 25 years old doing his job to send wireless messages throughout the boat to try and save as many people as possible on that tragic day. And with his help 705 managed to make it out alive.
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“However, thanks to his heroic actions, he was able to contact RMS Carpathia who arrived at the scene just before dawn, and rescued the 705 survivors.”
“However, despite his fear, when RMS Titanic hit an iceberg on 14th April 1912 at 11.40pm, Jack Phillips sprang into action, working tirelessly to communicate with other ships to ensure the passengers and crew were rescued “.
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Text: “Jack Phillips.” James Cameron's Titanic Wiki, jamescameronstitani jamescameronstitanic.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Phillipsc.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Phillips.
A postcard of the Titanic sinking
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Jack Phillips was the senior wireless operator for the maiden voyage of the RMS titanic. Jack Phillips earlier the night of the sinking told the operator of the Californian to "Shut up! I am busy, I am working Cape Race!" Jack then proceeded to turn off the radio and was not able to receive the warning about how the Californian was trapped in a field of ice. Even though Jack could be one to blame for the sinking of the magnificent ship and the loss of many lives, he worked until the ship went down trying to send wireless messages to nearby ships so they could in hopes, rescue the passengers. Jack Phillips died at dawn at the age of 25 when the titanic sank.
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"Shut up! I am busy, I am working Cape Race!"
the senior wireless operator for the maiden voyage of the RMS titanic
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Text and Image: Sinking Of The Titanic Influences Wireless Radio, www.modestoradiomuseum.org/titanic.html
People gathering to witness the world's first "Unsinkable" ship.
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Jack Phillips was the wireless operator on the Titanic. Jack Phillips, turned off the radio, and didn’t acknowledge the many iceberg warnings that were received by people who noticed that the ship was going to hit directly into an iceberg. If he did see the warnings, and took advantage of this information, and told the person steering the ship, could he have saved all the people that died during this Titanic adventure?
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“At 1:45 pm, a message was received from the steamer Amerika also warning of large icebergs in Titanic's path. However, Titanic's wireless radio operators, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, were too busy to relay what they considered "non-essential" ice messages to the bridge. They were employed by Marconi Wireless Company and paid to relay paid messages to and from the passengers. Later that evening, another report of numerous large icebergs, this time from the S.S. Mesaba also failed to reach the bridge. The Mesaba’s message was the sixth ice warning received by the Titanic that day”
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Archives, The National. “ The Story of John George ‘Jack’ Phillips| The National Archives.” Titanic | The National Archives, The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 4DU, 1 Mar. 2012,
Text: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/titanic/stories/john-george-phillips.htm.
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The RMS Titanic sailing off
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While sending a backlog of the passenger’s messages Phillips had received an ice warning from the Californian. He had rudely waved off the warning and failed to share the warning with anyone on the ship, including the Captain.
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“On the evening of 14 April he was in the wireless room sending a backlog of personal messages through Cape Race when the ship Californian sent through an ice warning. Phillips told them, ‘Keep out, I am working Cape Race’ and the stronger signal from the ship blocked out the signal from shore.”
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Text: Boyle, Alan. “10 Causes of the Titanic Tragedy.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 1 Apr. 2012, www.nbcnews.com/science/10-causes-titanic-tragedy-620220
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Captain Smith and Jack Phillips in the radio room
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The last iceberg warning received by Phillips was not passed to the Captain because it did not have the prefix “MSG”, which would have required a personal look a from the captain. Because of this Phillips had brushed off the warning and deemed it un-urgent.
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“Iceberg warnings went unheeded: The Titanic received multiple warnings about icefields in the North Atlantic over the wireless, but Corfield notes that the last and most specific warning was not passed along by senior radio operator Jack Phillips to Captain Smith, apparently because it didn't carry the prefix "MSG" (Masters' Service Gram). That would have required a personal acknowledgment from the captain. "Phillips interpreted it as non-urgent and returned to sending passenger messages to the receiver on shore at Cape Race, Newfoundland, before it went out of range," Corfield writes.”
By Sean Coughlan from BBC News
Summary by Adrian Alvarenga
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Text and Image: Coughlan, Sean. “Titanic: The Final Messages from a Stricken Ship.” BBC News, BBC, 10 Apr. 2012, www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17631595.
A colored portrait of Jack Phillips
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I think that one cause of so many deaths is that Jack Phillips did not like the sister ship. In the article it says when the sister ship was going to help Jack, but Jack got angry. I think if the ship did come, the deaths to come from it would not be so many. In conclusion, the many deaths that came from this event could have not happened if there was no rivalry between them.
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In response her sister ship, the Olympic called back: "Am lighting up all boilers as fast as we can."
There were also flashes of anger in the confusion. "You fool... keep out," the Titanic barked at a ship almost 200 miles away who had interrupted to inquire: "What is the matter with you?"
By Matt Young
Research Jaden Tith
Text: Jack Philips, " Jack Philips was the the man known for trying to save the Titanic, news.com.au December 4, 2017" https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/john-jack-phillips-was-the-man-known-for-trying-to-save-the-titanic/news-story/96b855fe4bbcbba59ad508c898002a93
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A photo of a radio wireless officer.
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In this article it explains how Jack Philips became the Titanic's Chief Wireless Operator at the age of 25. On the second day at sea close to midnight the deviation began. Slowly as the ship began to sink Jack used each moment to contact near by ships for salvation. Then Jack was trying to contact the ships he had "shooed away" earlier that day. He and his partner Bride worked tirelessly to send SOS signals, but it was too late. The room began to flood with water and the men fled, but unfortunately Jack didn't make it.
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"As water from the ocean deep began to fill the room, John Phillips refused to slow down." -Matt Young
"Stopped on the dark of night in the city waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, slowly slipping towards a water grave, Phillips continued to shoot messages across the sea in the hope of salvation."-Matt Young
A postcard that was sent from the Titanic
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Text: Mr. John George Phillips, Encyclopedia Titanica, https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/jack-phillips.html
Image: http://oceanlinersmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Titanic-Postcard.jpg
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The topic we are studying is Mr. John George “Jack” Phillips, the Titanic's chief wireless operator. By the time Jack was born, his twin sisters Elsie and Ethel were already thirteen years old. Jack began his education at a Church School. By 1902, at the age of fifteen, Jack had finished his schooling and he joined the Post Office where he trained to be a telegraphist. He spent time on the Lusitania, Mauritania, in Glace Bay, the Adriatic, Oceanic, and then the Titanic. During the evacuating, Phillips and Bride did manage to get onto a boat, but unfortunately Phillips was so tired from all the work he had done earlier and didn't have enough strength and past away before dawn.
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“The wireless was kept busy with commercial traffic after the Titanic sailed from Southampton 1 and the equipment was damaged as a result.”
“Phillips worked the 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 8pm to 2 a.m. shift, and Bride the 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 8pm shift”
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