Calling for Help

The Marconi wireless radio on board Titanic was a relatively new technological marvel.   Its operators were employed by the Marconi Company, not the White Star Line. 

When Captain Smith realised that the ship was sinking, he ordered the operators on duty, Harold Bride and Jack Phillips, to send wireless messages to all steamships within reach. 

Bride and Phillips stayed at their post, sending the S.O.S. signal, until Captain Smith informed them that they could leave. Bride survived the disaster, Phillips did not.