Admiral Page 046! ⚓

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I am very pleased with how this one turned out!

The page itself is meant to show the fleeting moments of passengers of all caliber during the lowering of the lifeboats, and the urgency of these moments.

Panel two depicts Senior Wireless Officer Jack Phillips.
The morse represented in the block is the following:
"CQD DE MGY"
CQD (Distress code meaning 'Come Quick Disaster')
DE (Marconi code for 'This Is')
MGY (Titanic's Marconi Callsign)

the rest of the Marconi block says:
" We are putting the women off in the boats "

The remaining trail of Marconi is a string of alternating "SOS" and "CQD"

Of special note the central panel of the elderly couple is representative of Ida and Isidor Straus, then owners of the Macy's department store.
Their story is notable in that when crew were attempting to get both Ida and Isidor into a lifeboat, Isidor refused, stating that he would not take a seat in a lifeboat before the other men, resigning himself to his fate aboard the sinking vessel. It is then, per several accounts, that Ida stated, " We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go."

Isidor's body was recovered from the water but Ida's was, if recovered, never identified.

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