Mythmaking and the Archival Record: The<i>Titanic</i>Disaster as Documented in the Archives of the Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey

Thayer, Johnathan

doi:10.17723/aarc.75.2.0qh07764615770x4

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“…SCI augmented the radio service with its Manual on Ship Sanitation and First-Aid for Merchant Seamen, first published in 1922, to provide much-needed medical resources for merchant ships. Devoted to care of the ship and self, SCI's Manual served “to meet one of the greatest humanitarian needs on board our Merchant Vessels” with a quick reference for medical and surgical conditions risked at sea as well as directions for disease treatment [ 12 ].…”

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Early innovations in maritime telemedical services: the KDKF Radio Medico Station

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Dreisbach-Williams²

2023

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“MAN PUT HIS TONGUE AGAINST REFRIGERATOR PIPE AND GOT IT FROZEN; HAVE THAWED IT OUT AND IT IS NOW BLISTERED AND SWOLLEN BUT NOT PAINFUL. ARRIVING HONOLULU FRIDAY; HOW CAN I HELP HIM MEANWHILE?” Thus read a message relayed via radiogram across the ocean to the physician stationed at the Seamen’s Church Institute’s (SCI) KDKF radio station, established by the Institute in 1920 on top of its thirteen-story seafarer services center at the southern tip of Manhattan. Though radio was in its infancy, radio telegraphy had already proven its revolutionary power, featuring prominently in far more serious maritime emergencies such as the sinking of Titanic. SCI’s KDKF radio station aimed to address a less dramatic but no less important problem in blue water navigation: access to medical care.

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