Please may I ask if there is a Maritime or Marconi S.O.S., Distress Call register or log?
Where all of the wartime or lost ships at sea are records in maritime logs, following the S.O.S., and Distress Call are reported.
If so where, and might these registers have details of the initial report, the location, the officer, and any further information maybe regarding the rescues too?
I believe my grandfather Walter Edward Thorp as the 1st class Marconi Wireless Officer may have sent out the S.O.S. calls for each of his ships, following the German U-boat torpedo damage, and sinkings.
SS City of Corinth ~ 1917, torpedoed, sunk.
IMO No. 135516
SS City of Cambridge ~ 1918, torpedoed, sunk.
IMO No. 86729
SS Mesaba ~ 1918, torpedoed, sunk.
IMO No. 109392 (ex Winifreda)
I very much look forward to reading and learning about such 'logs' if they are in existence.
Thank you in anticipation.
Jed
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Where all of the wartime or lost ships at sea are records in maritime logs, following the S.O.S., and Distress Call are reported.
If so where, and might these registers have details of the initial report, the location, the officer, and any further information maybe regarding the rescues too?
I believe my grandfather Walter Edward Thorp as the 1st class Marconi Wireless Officer may have sent out the S.O.S. calls for each of his ships, following the German U-boat torpedo damage, and sinkings.
SS City of Corinth ~ 1917, torpedoed, sunk.
IMO No. 135516
SS City of Cambridge ~ 1918, torpedoed, sunk.
IMO No. 86729
SS Mesaba ~ 1918, torpedoed, sunk.
IMO No. 109392 (ex Winifreda)
I very much look forward to reading and learning about such 'logs' if they are in existence.
Thank you in anticipation.
Jed
