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Category: Objects -> Maritime: Objects  
Donor: Unknown
Location: Document Room -> Document Boxes -> Maritime Carferries  
Accession Number: 2016.2533.1556  
Name of Object: Maritime/Carferries - Pere Marquette 18  
Description: history's first radio distress signal September 1910. C.Q.D. "come quickly: distress" - predecessor to the call "S.O.S." Pere Marquete no 18 sinking George Harwood Capt. Peter Kilty Article Grand Rapids Press 7/15/1973