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Jack Phillips (wireless officer) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Jack Phillips (wireless officer)
John George "Jack" Phillips (11 April 1887 – 15 April 1912) was a British wireless telegraphist aboard the . He served as senior wireless operator on the maiden voyage of the ship. As the ''Titanic'' was sinking, Phillips worked tirelessly to send wireless messages to other ships to enlist their assistance with the rescue of the ''Titanic''s passengers and crew. Phillips told the radio operator of the , "Shut up! I am busy, I am working Cape Race!" when interrupted on-air by his counterpart telling him that the ''Titanic'' was in the vicinity of an ice field.〔(FAQs, page 2 ) 〕 Although managing to find an overturned lifeboat to cling to, he perished in the icy Atlantic Ocean. ==Biography== John George "Jack" Phillips was born in Godalming, Surrey, England, to George Alfred Phillips and Anne Sanders, with two older twin sisters.〔 Phillips finished school in 1902 and began working at the Godalming post office where he learned telegraphy. He started training to work in wireless for the Marconi Company in March 1906 in Seaforth and graduated five months later in August. Phillips's first assignment was on the White Star Line ship ''Teutonic'' and he later worked on board Cunard's ; and the ''Corsican'', ''Pretorian'' and the of the Allan Line; and then Cunard's and the . In May 1908, he was assigned to the Marconi station outside Clifden, Ireland, where he worked until 1911, when he was assigned to the and later, in early 1912, to the .
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