John George Phillips, dit Jack Phillips ( – ), est un radiotélégraphiste britannique. Passionné de télégraphie dès sa jeunesse, il suit des cours à l'école Marconi de Liverpool, puis, son diplôme en main, s’engage sur les paquebots en tant qu’opérateur radio. Après avoir servi sur des grands bâtiments comme le Lusitania et le Mauretania, Phillips est envoyé durant plusieurs années à la toute nouvelle station radio de Clifden, en Irlande.
De retour en mer, au service de la White Star Line, Phillips est affecté, fin , au paquebot Titanic, pour son voyage inaugural, avec Harold Bride comme assistant. Lorsque le navire coule, dans la nuit du 14 au 15 avril, Phillips reste très longtemps à son poste pour appeler des secours, envoyant à la fois l'habituel CQD et le nouveau signal, SOS. Il meurt dans la catastrophe, alors qu'il venait de fêter ses 25 ans.
Son rôle lui vaut de nombreux hommages par le biais de monuments commémoratifs, mais aussi d'actions ponctuelles comme cinq minutes de silence annuelles pour commémorer sa mort. Il apparaît également dans plusieurs films sur la catastrophe.
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Date: 12 April 1887
WASHINGTON, April 11.--Col. John M. Wilson, Lieut.-Col. Peter C. Haines, and Major Garrett J. Lydecker have been appointed members of a board to meet in this city to consider such matters relating to the proposed Bennington Battle Monument as may be referred to it.
Date: 12 April 1887
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, April 11.-- The dispatch to THE TIMES of Thursday last respecting the safety of the sealing steamer Eagle has been verified in the most complete and satisfactory manner.
Date: 11 April 1887
Brooklyn; Cable Road on Park-avenue; S. L. Fisher Killed
Date: 12 April 1887
Date: 12 April 1887
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Date: 12 April 1887
Orders have been received here from St. Petersburg directing that all cafes, places of amusement, and the railway stations are to be closely watched, and all suspicious persons are to be asked to show their passports. If they have not passports with them they are to be arrested. Odessa is and has been for a long time under martial law.
Date: 12 April 1887
Our St. Petersburg correspondent tells us that Russia is about to remove her headquarters in Central Asia to Samarcand. The "Holy City" of one of the most ancient civilizations in the...
Date: 11 April 1887
Probasco, H.; Paintings Sold at American Art Association Rooms
Date: 12 April 1887
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