A CALL FOR HELP!

    THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2022

              A CALL FOR HELP!

    A bit more history trivia today my

friends/ Sometimes history can prove to

be very strange! And sometimes some

history heroes get lost in time. Such is

the case with Theodore (Ted) Haubner.

He was a radio operator aboard the S.S.

Arapahoe which was sailing from New

York to Charleston, SC, when its

propeller shaft broke. That left the ship

adrift in the so-called 'Graveyard of the

Atlantic" off the outer banks of NC! The

150 passengers on board were in very real

danger, And it was on this very date in 1910

that Haubner became the first person at sea

to send the distress signal SOS! A sister ship,

the S.S. Iroquois, heard the call, responded,

and was able to tow the Arapahoe to safety.

Ironically, after the vessel was repaired a

few months later it was sailing for New York

when it was the Iroquois that ran into serious

trouble with a broken rudder near the same

area off NC! It also sent out an SOS which was

immediately received by Ted Haubner on the

Arapahoe! He thus became the first sailor to

both send and receive an SOS Distress call.

The Titanic's use of SOS came two years

later! Hope you're not in distress and that

all your NEWS is good!