Harold Bride
Books
- Twenty Lifeboats Titanic, the Inquiries, and the Remaking of Maritime Law · Liszt Think
On the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with lifeboats lowered half full.
- A Desk of Regulations (London, 1894–1912)…ir only duty. At night, the operator might go off duty. The set might go unmanned. Titanic carried two Marconi operators, Jack Phillips and Harold Bride. They worked in shifts, keeping the wireless running day and night. But not every ship did. The wireless was a commercial service, not a sa…
- The Marconi Room (Liverpool and Seaward, 1900–April 1912)…i school in Liverpool and served on several ships before joining Titanic’s crew. He was twenty-five years old, professional, and exhausted. Harold Bride, the junior operator, was twenty-two, born in Nunhead, London, in 1890. He had joined the Marconi company in 1911 and served on several ves…
- Icebergs and Unheeded Warnings…ess room, located on the boat deck near the officers’ quarters, served as the point of reception. Operators John George “Jack” Phillips and Harold Bride worked in shifts, relaying passenger messages—the revenue source—and handling navigational traffic as it came. There was no requirement tha…