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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.While agreeing for the most part with dilf re the Titanic's call sign and the distress call(s) it used, I have to pull him up on the statement that the SOS signal was introduced in 1912.
"The 'SOS' signal was established as an International Distress Signal by an agreement made between the British Marconi Society and the German Telefunk organisation at the Berlin Radio Conference, 3 October 1906. The signal was formally introduced on 1 July 1908.
The first time the 'SOS' signal was used in an emergency was on 10 June 1909, when the Cunard liner SS Slavonia was wrecked off the Azores. Two steamers received her signals and went to the rescue.
This was nearly three years before the Titanic made her famous signal!
Fact from: The Shell Book of Firsts. By Patrick Robertson. Elbury Press & Michael Joseph Ltd. London."
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