Radio operator

Radio operators were indispensable at sea in the early days of wireless telegraphy, and many young men were called to sea as professional radio operators who were always accorded high-paying officer status at sea. Subsequent to the Titanic disaster and the Radio Act of 1912, the International Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) conventions established the 500kHz maritime distress frequency monitoring and mandated that all passenger-carrying ships carry licensed radio telegraph operators. ==Notable radio operators==

• Harold Bride, assistant radio operator of • Harold Cottam, radio operator of during the sinking of RMS Titanic • Jack Binns, last radio operator of • Jack Phillips, chief radio operator of Titanic • Cyril Evans, radio operator of during the sinking of Titanic • Robert Leith, last chief radio operator of • Graynella Packer, one of the first female radio operators aboard a ship. == See also ==