Editing CQD (section)

==History of wireless distress rescues==
From 1899 to 1908, nine documented rescues were made by the use of wireless. The earliest of these was a distress call from the ''East Goodwin'' [[lightvessel|lightship]]. However, for the earliest of these, there was no standardized distress signal. The first US ship to send a wireless distress call in 1905 simply sent HELP (in both International Morse and [[American Morse code]]).<ref name=Campbell2008/>{{rp|page=218}}

On 7 December 1903, Ludwig Arnson was a wireless operator aboard the liner {{SS|Kroonland}} when the ship lost a propeller off the Irish coast.  His call of CQD brought aid from a British cruiser. In 1944 Arnson received the Marconi Memorial Medal of Achievement in recognition of his sending the first wireless distress signal.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/13/issue.html |title=Ludwig Arnson |department=obituary |newspaper=New York Times |date=13 April 1958 |at=page 83, column 6 |via=Times Machine |accessdate=January 7, 2021}}</ref> By February&nbsp;1904, the Marconi Wireless Company required all its operators to use CQD for a ship in distress or for requiring URGENT assistance.<ref name="CQD"/>  In the early morning of 23&nbsp;January 1909, whilst sailing into New York from Liverpool, {{RMS|Republic|1903|6}} collided with the Italian liner SS ''Florida'' in fog off the [[Massachusetts]] island of [[Nantucket]].  Radio Operator Jack Binns sent the CQD distress signal by [[wireless]] transmission.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112008071869&view=1up&seq=515 |title={{nowrap|C Q D}}|first=Alfred M. |last=Caddell |magazine=Radio Broadcast |date=April 1924 |pages=449–455}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jackbinns.org |title=Jack Binns: Hero |website=JackBinns.org |access-date=25 October 2009 |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080724/http://www.jackbinns.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 15&nbsp;April 1912, {{RMS|Titanic}} radio operator [[Jack Phillips (wireless operator)|Jack Phillips]] initially sent "CQD", which was still commonly used by British ships. [[Harold Bride]], the junior radio operator, suggested using {{overline|SOS}}, saying half-jokingly that it might be his last chance to use the new code. Phillips thereafter began to alternate between the two.<ref name=Campbell2008/>{{rp|page=1911}}  Although Bride survived, Phillips perished in the sinking.<ref>{{cite news |title=Thrilling story by Titanic's surviving wireless man |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/04/19/archives/thrilling-story-by-titanics-surviving-wireless-man-bride-tells-how.html |date=19 April 1912 |access-date=29 September 2018 |archive-date=5 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105080657/https://www.nytimes.com/1912/04/19/archives/thrilling-story-by-titanics-surviving-wireless-man-bride-tells-how.html |url-status=live |last1=Bride |first1=Harold }}</ref>