Punishment for entering the officers' quarters/bridge area?

[Bob Read]

Portable phones were around in 1912?

The phones were portable but they weren’t wireless. They had to be plugged into a receptacle on the deck.

 

[Steven Christian]

I don't speak frog so I don't know what it says but there are some interesting pictures of remote phones in the link.

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[Robert T. Paige]

The phones were portable but they weren’t wireless. They had to be plugged into a receptacle on the deck.

Thanks Bob -
The photographs with the apparatus open gives a much better idea of how they looked.
Were these receptacles for plugging in located in the decks all over the ship ?
This is the first I had seen or heard of these.
Another case of you never stop learning new things on the ET website !

 

[Bob Read]

I only am aware of two portable phones. There were two locations they could be mounted and plugged in on the forecastle: just aft of the anchor crane and just forward of #1 hatch. The other location was on the docking bridge.

 

[Aly Jones]

The phones were portable but they weren’t wireless. They had to be plugged into a receptacle on the deck.

amazing.
I didn't know this kind of tech was around back then.

 

[Robert T. Paige]

The phones were portable but they weren’t wireless. They had to be plugged into a receptacle on the deck.

I assume they were also not "sound powered" but had batteries or some sort of power supply for their operation ?
Something like a telephone network in a town or city ?
Were these used for contacts with the bridge or for somewhere else ?
I think the "sound powered" phones were not developed until WWII, at least in the U.S. Navy ?