jack phillips

It has been suggested in an (admittedly poor quality) book that I am reading that John Phillips and John Durrant knew each other. Is there evidence to back up that claim? To see if it was true, I've been searching Google, but at this point have been unable to find anything. You may know more on...

What time did the Marconi set breakdown and when did Phillips and Bride get it going again?

Here is an image of my personal tribute display to Jack Phillips and Harold Bride. I hope that you like it!

Did any of you read the book "The Man Who Sent The SOS" ? If so,what do you believe? Is it all true or BS? The Author said some things like Jack Phillips had broken his Fingers and James Moody and Jack Phillips were Close Friends. He also said HE is the Reincarnation of Jack Phillips . He also...

Is there any record of the early wireless messages that Phillips or Bride might have transmitted or received on the 10th and/or 11th April 1912? In fact, what were they doing during the passage from Southampton via Cherbourg to Queenstown? The only bit of related information I have seen is...

In the 1943 Nazi German Titanic film, Jack Phillips has a pet canary which he frees during the sinking. I don't think the real Jack Phillips had a pet canary on board the Titanic, but were wireless officers allowed to have pets on board ship with them in those days?

I saw that Phillips and Bride were sometimes (including in this sub-forum title) referred to as Wireless "Officers". But in fact, were they treated on par with the ship's other officers? For example, how did their accommodation compare? Did they eat with the ship's officers? What toilet...

I mean, is it known who was that man?

I am doing some 'causal' research on Phillips (and Moody), and was wondering if there are any others out there who are undertaking the same task. I've found Phillips in the census. Does anyone know his parents', specifically George Alfred Phillips, birth date? Any help would be appreciated.

I wonder if someone could explain exactly what is meant when we read that the Marconi operators weren't employed by WSL but by Marconi. I mean what the business arrangement was. Did Marconi rent the rooms and provide everything necessary? Or did WSL pay Marconi to have the extra service...

In his recent National Geographic article "Ghostwalking In Titanic" James Cameron makes this claim about Bride and Phillips: "In the soundproof Marconi room, the wireless apparatus survives, the knife switches still in the positions left by the young operators, Harold Bride and Jonathan...

My apologies if this had already been discussed previously. I came across a website that says Harold Bride's son was named John Phillip Bride and called Jack. Is it possible Bride had named his son after his colleague John George 'Jack' Phillips or was it just a coincidence?

In the latest edition of Her Name: Titanic, Charles Pellegrino makes the following claim about John Phillips and Harold Bride's jokes to each other during the night: "For this edition, the jokes themselves have resurfaced, following the discovery of Harold Bride's descendants and a complete...

From the crew signing on sheets, it appears that Phillips wage was £4.50 per month whilst Bride received just £2.2.6 per month which I understand were paid by Marconi . These amounts appear very small considering their jobs and expertise eg a turkish bath stewardess received £4 pm. Was there a...

Does anyone know if the over 300 postcards written by Jack Phillips were ever collectively catalogued? Were the mailing locations and messages ever copied down in a single collection? I tried several years ago to discover this when they first surface but with no luck. I'm hoping there may be...

Today I travelled to Godalming and Farncombe in my home county of Surrey in S.E. England. In particular I visited the Jack Phillips Memorial Gardens and Cloister in Godalming, and the nearby village of Farncombe. The memorial at Godalming is the largest in the world to a single Titanic victim...

What ships did Jack Phillips work on before the Titanic ?

Hey, I am planning on creating my own Titanic website and would like any good, in-depth info. on the Marconi room: what it looked like, its design, etc. Plus, I am interested in any in-depth info. on the operators, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride, especially their birth dates, death dates...

I'm new in my studies of the Titanic. I've been wondering about the Marconi operators. It seems to me that they should have been held partially responsible for not getting ice warnings to the bridge. Were they not required to do this? Did they work only to send and receive messages for the...