Edited and Annotated by Virginia Utermohlen Lovelace
In the early hours of January 23rd 1909, in a thick cold fog off Nantucket Island, an Italian immigrant ship, the "Florida" struck a fatal blow amidships of the "Republic" - a luxury ship heading out for a Mediterranean cruise.
"Jack" Binns was the Republic's wireless operator, its Marconi Man. His devotion to duty, coupled with the extraordinary courage of the Republic's and the Florida's captains and crew, succeeded in saving the lives of over 1500 people,
while the Republic sank.
That January week-end a hundred years ago, and all that led up to it and what followed is celebrated in
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