Rescue at Sea

The earth has always trembled under southern Italy.

意大利南部的大地一直在颤抖。

But never so fiercely as on the morning of December 28, 1908 when an earthquake unlike any other brought entire cities to the ground.

但从未像 1908 年 12 月 28 日早晨那样猛烈，一场前所未有的地震将整个城市夷为平地。

It was called the worst calamity of modern times.

它被称为现代最严重的灾难。

Initial reports of 20,000 dead were quickly revised to ten times that number.

最初报告的死亡人数为 20,000 人，很快被修改为该数字的十倍。

With nowhere to go, survivors boarded steamships organized by the government for a one-way trip to america.

无处可去的幸存者登上了政府组织的轮船，前往美国进行单程旅行。

On January 10, the S.S.

1 月 10 日，S.S.

"Florida" sailed from naples with 850 passengers and a cargo of dried macaroni.

“佛罗里达号”从那不勒斯启航，载有 850 名乘客和一批干通心粉。

She would be commanded by 28-year-old Angelo Ruspini, who was making his second Atlantic crossing as her captain.

该船将由 28 岁的安吉洛·鲁斯皮尼 (Angelo Ruspini) 指挥，他作为船长第二次横渡大西洋。

Moments before setting sail, 14-year-old Salvatore D'Amico, who'd lost his entire family in the quake, begged to join the "Florida's" crew.

在起航前不久，14 岁的萨尔瓦托·达米科 (Salvatore D'Amico) 在地震中失去了全家，他请求加入“佛罗里达号”船员。

Ruspini, against his better judgment, agreed to take him on board.

鲁斯皮尼不顾他更好的判断，同意让他加入。

The "Florida's" passengers were involuntary emigrants traveling in steerage.

“佛罗里达号”的乘客是乘坐统舱旅行的非自愿移民。

They set off for america carrying little more than the hope of a better life.

他们出发前往美国，只带着对美好生活的希望。

Two weeks later, twenty friends gathered in boston for a far more elegant farewell.

两周后，二十位朋友齐聚波士顿，举行了一场更为优雅的告别仪式。

They had come to send off Eugene Lynch, a respected businessman, and his wife mary, who were bound for Italy aboard the S.S.

他们是来送行受人尊敬的商人尤金·林奇和他的妻子玛丽的，他们将乘坐SS号前往意大利。

"Republic".

“共和国”。

It would be their first trip abroad.

这将是他们第一次出国旅行。

Boston papers reported the evening's centerpiece was a scale model of the "Republic", a White Star liner, fully rigged with the American and Italian colors flying.

波士顿报纸报道说，当晚的焦点是“共和国”号的比例模型，这是一艘白星客轮，完全装备有美国和意大利的色彩。

The Lynches had their doubts about the voyage, having heard it was bad luck to set sail on a Friday.

林奇夫妇对这次航行心存疑虑，因为他们听说周五起航会带来霉运。

But the dinner guests assured them there was nothing to worry about.

但晚餐的客人向他们保证没有什么可担心的。

TITLE: RESCUE AT SEA HEAD CREDIT: BEN LOETERMAN NARRATOR: In 1909 passenger lines competed to attract new transAtlantic travelers like the Lynches.

标题：海上救援 资料来源：BEN LOETERMAN 旁白：1909 年，客运公司竞相吸引像林奇夫妇这样的新的跨大西洋旅客。

Lines like White Star and Cunard promoted either top speed or deluxe service.

白星 (White Star) 和丘纳德 (Cunard) 等航空公司推出了最高速度或豪华服务。

JOHN MAXTONE GRAHAM, HISTORIAN: It's very rare on the North Atlantic that you had one ship that answered both necessities, that it be fast and it be extremely luxurious.

约翰·马克斯顿·格雷厄姆（JOHN MAXTONE GRAHAM），历史学家：在北大西洋，拥有一艘既能满足这两种需求的船是非常罕见的，它既速度快又极其豪华。

You either built for dispatch or deluxe.

您要么为调度而建造，要么为豪华建造。

Cunard went after the speed.

丘纳德追求的是速度。

White Star renounced the idea of speed.

白星放弃了速度的想法。

They thought, leave that to the Cunards and we'll go for comfort.

他们想，把这件事留给冠达航空，我们就去寻求安慰。

And they used to say that you'd spend six days at sea, but you would have so much more comfortable a ship, it would be worth it.

他们过去常说，你会在海上度过六天，但你会拥有一艘更加舒适的船，这是值得的。

NARRATOR: In addition to steamer chairs and on-board barber shops, White Star now added a new amenity, called wireless.

旁白：除了蒸椅和船上理发店之外，白星现在还增加了一项新设施，称为无线。

On a growing number of liners, makeshift cabins sprouted up to house the device .

越来越多的游轮上出现了临时舱室来容纳该设备。

For up to 200 miles, passengers could now send and receive personal greetings, track the latest stock quote, or read the news of the day sent by wireless telegraph and printed on board.

在长达 200 英里的范围内，乘客现在可以发送和接收个人问候、跟踪最新股票报价或阅读通过无线电报发送并印在机上的当天新闻。

MAXTONE-GRAHAM: Wireless, initially I think was perceived ah more as a frivolity almost, ah a luxury, a reassurance to passengers who might want the latest refinement just as a driver of new car would want automatic shift.

MAXTONE-GRAHAM：无线，最初我认为它被认为是一种轻浮的东西，一种奢侈品，一种对可能需要最新改进的乘客的保证，就像新车驾驶员想要自动换档一样。

This was in a sense sort of automatic shift of shipboard.

从某种意义上说，这是船上的自动转移。

This was another ah more gilt, gingerbread on the whole creation that you could get on a ship that was in communication with the shore.

这是另一个更镀金的姜饼，你可以在一艘与海岸相连的船上得到。

NARRATOR: By 1909 wealthy Americans had discovered the cruise.

旁白：到 1909 年，富有的美国人发现了邮轮。

They flocked to Europe, to broaden their education, present young debutantes at court, or simply escape the nasty winter.

他们涌向欧洲，以扩大教育范围，在宫廷中介绍年轻的初次亮相的人，或者只是为了逃避寒冷的冬天。

The Lynches of boston were looking forward to the next two months.

波士顿林奇队期待着接下来的两个月。

Mary Lynch planned a roman holiday.

玛丽·林奇计划了一个罗马假期。

Eugene Lynch wanted to visit the recent earthquake site in Sicily with his friend, the journalist James Connolly.

尤金·林奇想和他的记者朋友詹姆斯·康诺利一起参观西西里岛最近发生的地震现场。

The Lynches had booked a choice 1st-class stateroom, #34, on the uppermost "saloon" deck.

林奇夫妇预订了一间精选的一等舱，#34，位于最上面的“沙龙”甲板上。

Connolly was staying on a lower deck, in smaller 2nd class quarters.

康诺利住在下层甲板上较小的二等舱。

He had just been assigned to write an exclusive for the New York Herald about the U.S. navy's relief effort in Sicily.

他刚刚被指派为《纽约先驱报》撰写一篇有关美国海军在西西里岛救援工作的独家报道。

Next door to the Lynches was the North Dakota banker William James Mooney, known to his friends as W.J.

林奇夫妇的隔壁是北达科他州银行家威廉·詹姆斯·穆尼（William James Mooney），他的朋友们称他为 W.J.

Mooney, who was hoping to mix business and pleasure , was traveling with his new 2nd wife, Oakella.

穆尼希望将工作和娱乐结合起来，与他的第二任妻子奥凯拉一起旅行。

JOHN MOONEY, GRANDSON: I really think she was the ringleader behind this trip.

约翰·穆尼（孙子）：我真的认为她是这次旅行的幕后黑手。

And ah, I am sure that W.J.

啊，我确信 W.J.

was all for another trip around ah Italy in the middle of North Dakota winters.

一切都是为了在北达科他州隆冬期间再次环游意大利。

I know I would be.

我知道我会的。

NARRATOR: Below the Lynches were Henry and Hallie Davis, grandchildren of a wealthy West Virginia senator, they were making the annual trek to Europe.

旁白：林奇下面是亨利·戴维斯和哈莉·戴维斯，他们是一位富有的西弗吉尼亚州参议员的孙子，他们每年都会长途跋涉前往欧洲。

DIANA SODI, DAUGHTER: They were able to go to Europe, travel around, everybody with means did it.

戴安娜·索迪（DIANA SODI），女儿：他们能够去欧洲，到处旅行，每个有能力的人都做到了。

NARRATOR : An inveterate snooper, 10-yr-old Hallie happened past the odd-looking cabin on deck, occupied by a young wireless operator.

旁白：10 岁的哈莉是一位顽固的窥探者，她偶然经过甲板上那间看起来很奇怪的小屋，里面住着一位年轻的无线电操作员。

The operator was 26-yr-old Jack Binns , whose services were leased to the steamship by the fledgling Marconi Wireless Company .

操作员是 26 岁的杰克·宾斯 (Jack Binns)，他的服务由刚刚起步的马可尼无线公司租给了这艘轮船。

SODI: He showed her the whole thing and she was fascinated.

SODI：他向她展示了整个事情，她很着迷。

It was called a wireless and it didn't have any wires that she could see.

它被称为无线设备，没有任何她能看到的电线。

And then I do remember her saying something about lightning.

然后我确实记得她说了一些关于闪电的事情。

It must have sent some kind of lightning effect.

它一定发出了某种闪电效果。

But I may be wrong on that.

但我可能是错的。

NARRATOR: The "Republic's" route Friday evening took her up the coast of long island and past Nantucket before heading out to open sea.

旁白：周五晚上，“共和国”号的航线将她带到长岛海岸，经过楠塔基特岛，然后驶向公海。

She would steam through the crowded waters near Nantucket lightship, known as the times square of the Atlantic.

她将驶过被称为大西洋时代广场的楠塔基特灯塔附近拥挤的水域。

With up to 2 dozen ships crossing the dangerous intersection each night, east- and westbound lanes were established on either side of the lightship, 30 miles apart.

每晚都有多达 20 艘船只穿过危险的十字路口，灯船两侧均设立了东西行车道，相距 30 英里。

At about eleven that night, the journalist James Connolly heard the ship's foghorn and went out on the freezing deck.

那天晚上十一点左右，记者詹姆斯·康诺利听到船上的雾号声，就走到冰冷的甲板上。

CONNOLLY voice: I studied the black water sliding past at full speed, and I wasn't liking it.

康诺利的声音：我研究了全速滑过的黑水，但我不喜欢它。

I had been on steamers before on foggy nights-- but that was on the open ocean.

我以前曾在有雾的夜晚坐过汽船——但那是在公海上。

Here was a ship traveling a narrow line for the 200 miles between Sandy Hook and Nantucket Lightship.

这是一艘在桑迪胡克和楠塔基特灯船之间狭窄的航线上行驶 200 英里的船。

NARRATOR: The foghorn had startled mary Lynch in her stateroom.

旁白：雾号惊动了玛丽·林奇在她的客舱里。

"I'm not a bit timid," she told her husband, "but it's dreadful to be racing along in this fog.

“我一点也不胆怯，”她告诉她的丈夫，“但在这大雾中奔跑是很可怕的。

It's as if we were walking blindfolded among a lot of trolley cars.

就好像我们蒙着眼睛走在许多有轨电车之中。

Don't let the fog hurt me, will you, gene?" Jack Binns hardly noticed the fog.

别让雾气伤害我，好吗，吉恩？”杰克·宾斯几乎没有注意到雾气。

He would be up for several more hours, sending a flurry of farewell messages before moving out of range of the Marconi station at Siasconsett, on the tip of Nantucket.

他还会再起床几个小时，发送一系列告别信息，然后离开位于楠塔基特岛一角的锡亚斯康塞特的马可尼车站的范围。

As the fog thickened, the "Republic's" 48-yr-old-captain, Inman Sealby, left the wheelhouse .

随着雾气越来越浓，“共和国”号48岁的船长英曼·西尔比离开了驾驶室。

MAXTONE- GRAHAM: In very intense situations, where they could hear another vessel, captains would go out on the wing of a bridge and stop their ships, and just listen.

MAXTONE-GRAHAM：在非常紧张的情况下，船长们可以听到另一艘船的声音，他们会走到桥的一侧，停下他们的船，只是听听。

CHARLES HAAS, HISTORIAN: Captain Sealby hears very faintly through the fog the whistle of another ship.

查尔斯·哈斯，历史学家：西尔比船长透过雾气隐约听到另一艘船的汽笛声。

He doesn't know the identity of that ship.

他不知道那艘船的身份。

But he knows that this sound appears to be getting closer uh and he begins processing what his options are.

但他知道这个声音似乎越来越近了，呃，他开始考虑他的选择。

NARRATOR: Sealby decided to order a port, or left, turn, and sounded his whistle, signaling the unknown vessel to do the same.

旁白：西尔比决定命令左转，并吹响了哨子，示意那艘未知的船只也这样做。

The unknown vessel was the "Florida", on the last day of her journey from Italy.

这艘未知的船只是“佛罗里达”号，它正处于从意大利出发的最后一天。

The steamer had lost her way in the fog and was desperately searching for the Nantucket lightship.

轮船在雾中迷失了方向，正在拼命寻找楠塔基特灯船。

HAAS: On the "Florida", the quartermaster who was at the wheel may have actually inverted the order and instead of turning to port, turned to starboard.

哈斯：在“佛罗里达”号上，掌舵的军需官实际上可能颠倒了顺序，不是转向左舷，而是转向右舷。

The "Republic's" form materializes out of the fog.

“共和国”的形态从迷雾中显现出来。

Captain Ruspini probably realizes that something is drastically wrong and at this point there really isn't any way of avoiding it.

鲁斯皮尼船长可能意识到有些事情是严重错误的，而且在这一点上确实没有任何方法可以避免它。

NARRATOR: It was 5:47, saturday morning, January 23.

旁白：那是 1 月 23 日星期六早上 5 点 47 分。

VIRGINIA UTERMOHLEN, GRANDDAUGHTER: Binnsy was asleep in his cabin, all the last messages were sent--good-bye greetings, love letters uh and notes about the stock market and uh he had just gone to sleep when this incredible crashing came through and grinding like -- he said it was like an earthquake, he was thrown from his bed, found himself soaking wet on, on the floor with pieces of his cabin sitting all around him....

弗吉尼亚·乌特莫伦，孙女：宾西在他的小屋里睡着了，所有最后的信息都已发送——再见问候、情书呃和关于股市的笔记，呃他刚刚入睡，突然发生了这令人难以置信的撞击，他说这就像一场地震，他被从床上摔下来，发现自己湿透了，在地板上，他的小屋的碎片散落在他周围……

His biggest problem was to find the parts of his apparatus and to insure that they could work.

他最大的问题是找到设备的部件并确保它们能够工作。

NARRATOR: It would take Jack Binns nearly an hour to make his way several decks below and fish out auxiliary batteries to get his equipment running again.

旁白：杰克·宾斯花了近一个小时才到达下面的几层甲板并取出辅助电池以使他的设备再次运行。

Without ship's power, Binn's sending range was cut to barely 60 miles.

失去了舰船动力，宾恩的发射范围被削减到仅仅 60 英里。

His only hope was to reach the wireless station at Siasconsett, by now 47 miles away.

他唯一的希望是到达 47 英里外的 Siasconsett 无线电站。

UTERMOHLEN: It was bitter cold when he first went to go see Captain Sealby.

乌特莫伦：当他第一次去见西尔比船长时，天气非常寒冷。

Captain Sealby in fact told him not to be afraid and he said, "Oh sir, I'm, I'm, I'm not afraid it's just that it's so called my teeth are shattering -- chattering and I'm, I'm shivering but I'm not really afraid." And indeed I don't think he really was.

事实上，西尔比船长告诉他不要害怕，他说：“哦，先生，我，我，我并不害怕，只是所谓的我的牙齿在打碎——我在颤抖，但我并不是真的害怕。”事实上，我不认为他真的是。

NARRATOR: Binns took sealby's message back to his cabin.

旁白：宾斯将西尔比的消息带回了他的小屋。

It would become the first real test of wireless To effect a rescue at sea.

这将成为无线技术首次真正的海上救援测试。

BINNS voice: "CQD!

BINNS 的声音：“CQD！

CQD!

CQD！

Here is MKC!

这里是MKC！

MKC shipwrecked.

MKC 遭遇海难。

"Republic" rammed by unknown steamship.

“共和国”号被不明轮船撞毁。

Twenty-six miles southwest of Nantucket Lightship.

楠塔基特灯塔西南二十六英里处。

Badly in need of immediate assistance.

急需立即援助。

Sealby NARRATOR: He prayed the message would be heard.

西尔比旁白：他祈祷这个信息能够被听到。

Before wireless, communication between ship and shore was limited to as far as the eye could see.

在无线出现之前，船舶和岸上之间的通信仅限于肉眼可见的范围。

SUSAN DOUGLAS, HISTORIAN: Imagine going out in a ship and all you have are semaphores and homing pigeons.

历史学家苏珊·道格拉斯：想象一下，乘船出海，你所拥有的只有信号机和信鸽。

Once you can no longer see the shore, you are incommunicado.

一旦你看不到海岸，你就与世隔绝了。

Nothing until you get to the other shore.

直到到达彼岸之前什么都没有。

That's the situation that people confronted in the 1890s.

这就是 1890 年代人们所面临的情况。

NARRATOR: Binn's hopes hung on a recent invention-- the work of a young Italian experimenter, Guglielmo Marconi.

旁白：宾恩的希望寄托在最近的一项发明上——一位年轻的意大利实验家古列尔莫·马可尼的作品。

DOUGLAS: Marconi was not a theoretically trained scientist, he was not a university person.

道格拉斯：马可尼不是一位受过理论训练的科学家，他也不是一名大学毕业生。

He read and borrowed from, uh, the university trained scientists, but he tinkered.

他阅读并借鉴了大学培养的科学家的知识，但他进行了修改。

He was good at finding a particular device that would work as a transmitter, another particular device that would work as a receiver.

他擅长寻找一种可以用作发射器的特定设备，以及另一种可以用作接收器的特定设备。

If that receiver didn't work, he found something else to borrow from.

如果那个接收器坏了，他就找别的东西借用。

NARRATOR: To make it all work, Marconi had to create a spark big enough to generate electro-magnetic waves.

旁白：为了让这一切顺利进行，马可尼必须制造出足够大的火花来产生电磁波。

DOUGLAS: And the way Marconi generated that spark was by using something called a spark gap.

道格拉斯：马可尼产生火花的方式是使用一种叫做火花隙的东西。

And you've seen something that looks like this in Frankenstein movies, with these sparks radiating back and forth between these brass balls.

你在《弗兰肯斯坦》电影中见过这样的东西，这些火花在这些黄铜球之间来回辐射。

Well, that's what Marconi used.

嗯，这就是马可尼所使用的。

And the way that he tried to moderate that was to make it conform to the Morse code.

他试图调节这一点的方法是使其符合摩尔斯电码。

So the spark gap was connected through an induction coil to a telegraph key.

因此，火花隙通过感应线圈连接到电报键。

And if you send out short bursts, those were dots, and if you sent out long bursts, those were dashes.

如果你发出短脉冲，那些是点，如果你发出长脉冲，那些是破折号。

And they would travel through the electromagnetic spectrum, what people mistakenly call the air, and were received at a distance through a radio detector.

它们会穿过电磁频谱（人们错误地称之为空气），并通过无线电探测器在远处接收。

NARRATOR: But a scientific breakthrough was not Marconi's goal.

旁白：但是科学突破并不是马可尼的目标。

He hoped to make wireless make money.

他希望让无线赚钱。

In the fall of 1899, he got his chance , courtesy of the New York Herald's editor, James Gordon Bennett .

1899 年秋天，在《纽约先驱报》的编辑詹姆斯·戈登·贝内特的帮助下，他得到了机会。

PHIL PETERSEN, WIRELESS PIONEER: James Gordon Bennett heard about Marconi's goings on in Europe, sending messages without wire and at that time there was a yacht race, he thought gee, he was a -- he says I can, see if I can get Marconi to come over here to America and uh give us the scoop on who's winning the races that were going on off of Sandy Hook.

菲尔·彼得森，无线先驱：詹姆斯·戈登·贝内特听说了马可尼在欧洲的情况，通过无线方式发送信息，当时有一场游艇比赛，他想，哎呀，他是——他说我可以，看看我能否让马可尼来到美国，呃，给我们独家新闻，告诉我们谁赢得了桑迪胡克举行的比赛。

NARRATOR: Hearing that Bennett's invitation included a $5,000 Fee, Marconi was eager to put on a wireless demonstration that could also win him much needed publicity.

旁白：听说贝内特的邀请包括 5,000 美元的费用，马可尼急于进行无线演示，这也可以为他赢得急需的宣传。

PETERSEN : The newspaper men were asking him uh what are you going to do here in America?

彼得森：报社的人问他，呃，你要去美国做什么？

Is this thing going to work and so on?

这东西会起作用吗等等？

And uh he says uh I will be able to transmit without a doubt from so many miles at sea back to land and the copies will be in the newspaper just in a matter of minutes.

他说，毫无疑问，我将能够从如此多英里的海上传输回陆地，并且副本将在几分钟之内出现在报纸上。

And people looked at this and they couldn't believe this and they felt he was a little bit of a young fellow, he was a young fellow about 20 years old or 19 at the time and they felt he was a little bragging a little bit too much.

人们看着这个，他们不敢相信这一点，他们觉得他有点年轻，他当时是一个20岁或19岁左右的年轻人，他们觉得他有点吹牛，有点太多了。

DOUGLAS: Marconi walks with his contraptions, gets on board a ship, and begins following the yacht races for The Herald.

道格拉斯：马可尼带着他的装置行走，登上一艘船，开始为《先驱报》关注游艇比赛。

And what he does is he wirelesses the progress of the yacht races back to The Herald headquarters in Manhattan.

他所做的就是将游艇比赛的进展情况通过无线电传回位于曼哈顿的《先驱报》总部。

They immediately post the progress up on bulletin boards, so people can follow the progress of the yacht races almost instantaneously.

他们立即将进展情况发布在公告板上，这样人们几乎可以即时了解游艇比赛的进展情况。

NARRATOR: What impressed america most, Marconi later said, was the extraordinary speed of the technology....

旁白：马可尼后来说，给美国留下最深刻印象的是技术的非凡速度……

The public was less than 75 seconds behind the yachts and in many cases less than 30.

公众落后游艇的时间不到 75 秒，很多情况下还不到 30 秒。

Young boys were quick to try it themselves.

小男孩们很快就自己尝试了。

PETERSEN: Gee, now you can talk without wires.

彼得森：哎呀，现在你可以不用电线说话了。

And I said boy Marconi I saw where he did this and he went further and further and further without wires and uh it, it, it felt to you like you were part of it.

我说男孩马可尼，我看到他在哪里做了这件事，他在没有电线的情况下走得越来越远，呃，它，它，你感觉就像你是其中的一部分。

NARRATOR: The young amateurs formed a club, and convened their first meeting in New York on jan 2, 1909.

旁白：年轻的业余爱好者成立了一个俱乐部，并于 1909 年 1 月 2 日在纽约召开了第一次会议。

Boys like 17-year-old Frank King, from Manhattan.

男孩们喜欢来自曼哈顿的 17 岁弗兰克·金 (Frank King)。

And Faitoute Munn, also 17, from New Jersey.

还有同样 17 岁的 Faitoute Munn，来自新泽西州。

And Harry Houk, 15, from Staten Island.

还有来自史泰登岛的 15 岁哈里·霍克 (Harry Houk)。

And W.E.D.

还有 W.E.D.

"Weddy" Stokes, who at the tender age of fourteen, became the club's first president.

“韦迪”斯托克斯在十四岁时就成为了俱乐部的第一任主席。

DOUGLAS: The amateur operator was basically the hacker of the early twentieth century, and for a brief period he is greatly celebrated in popular culture.

道格拉斯：业余操作员基本上是二十世纪初的黑客，并且在很短的一段时间内，他在流行文化中广受赞誉。

NARRATOR: There were books like the radio boys series and tom swift and his wireless message, and magazine stories with titles like in Marconi land.

旁白：有一些书籍，例如《无线电男孩》系列、汤姆·斯威夫特和他的无线信息，以及标题为《马可尼土地》的杂志故事。

They celebrated the heroism and the adventures of young boys, who put on their earphones and took to what was called the great void.

他们庆祝年轻男孩的英雄主义和冒险经历，他们戴上耳机，进入了所谓的“伟大的虚空”。

NARRATOR: By the hundreds, young men signed up to learn morse code and become wireless operators.

旁白：数百名年轻人报名学习摩尔斯电码并成为无线电操作员。

MAXTONE-GRAHAM: The young Marconi operators really were sort of a very select fraternity And there was a wonderful convention they had, they always interserted OM, which was old man, which is a sort of, uh, camaraderie greeting that they exchanged over the ether.

MAXTONE-GRAHAM：年轻的马可尼操作员确实是一个非常精挑细选的兄弟会，他们有一个很棒的惯例，他们总是插入 OM，这是老人，这是他们通过以太网交换的一种，呃，友情问候。

NARRATOR: They called themselves Marconi men, men like Jack Irwin, and Jack Binns UTERMOHLEN: Binnsy became a Marconi man when he was 12 years old and uh first as a messenger boy.

旁白：他们称自己为马可尼人，像杰克·欧文和杰克·宾斯这样的人。 乌特莫伦：宾西在 12 岁时就成为了马可尼人，呃，首先是作为一名信使。

It was a very exciting job for him and because of the camaraderie of all the other Marconi men who were so excited with this new technology.

这对他来说是一项非常令人兴奋的工作，并且因为所有其他马可尼员工对这项新技术感到非常兴奋。

NARRATOR: Binns drew shipboard assignments with White Star, ending up on the "Republic".

旁白：宾斯在白星号上绘制了船上任务，最终到达了“共和国”号。

Jack Irwin, manned the station at Siasconsett, on Nantucket, the easternmost point of contact for sea traffic between New York and Europe.

杰克·欧文 (Jack Irwin) 负责管理位于楠塔基特岛西亚斯康塞特 (Siasconsett) 的车站，该车站是纽约和欧洲之间海上交通的最东端联络点。

Working round the clock, its operators mostly relayed mundane greetings from passing ships.

其操作员昼夜不停地工作，主要转达过往船只的日常问候。

But their higher calling, they felt, was to be ready for a cqd.

但他们认为，他们更高的使命是为 CQD 做好准备。

DOUGLAS : CQ meant "seek you" or "seeking you," "I'm seeking you, are you out there?

道格拉斯：CQ 的意思是“寻找你”或“寻找你”，“我在寻找你，你在外面吗？

Is anybody out there?" And the D was added to stand for danger.

有人在吗？”并且添加了 D 来代表危险。

So that it was meant to mean, I am seeking you, danger.

所以它的意思是，我正在寻找你，危险。

NARRATOR: Until the morning of January 23, 1909, no Marconi operator had ever sent such a signal At 6:40 a.m.

旁白：直到 1909 年 1 月 23 日早上，还没有马可尼操作员在早上 6 点 40 分发出过这样的信号。

on saturday January 23, Jack Irwin was stoking his coal stove when suddenly he heard a loud crackle coming from his headphones....he started to take down the message.

1 月 23 日星期六，杰克·欧文 (Jack Irwin) 正在给煤炉加火，突然他听到耳机里传来一声巨大的噼啪声……他开始记下这条信息。

On board the "Republic", Jack Binns surveyed his wireless cabin and felt lucky to be alive.

在“共和国”号上，杰克·宾斯检查了他的无线舱，为自己能活着感到幸运。

BINNS voice: "The walls of my cabin splintered up and fell in.

宾斯的声音：“我小屋的墙壁裂开并倒塌了。

Had I been seated at the normal operating position, I would have been badly hurt in that mess." "While groping in the darkness, I knocked the key and broke it.

如果我坐在正常的操作位置上，我就会在这场混乱中受重伤。”“在黑暗中摸索时，我把钥匙敲坏了。

I had to hold the lever with one hand so I could send messages with the other....." "I could see nothing outside in the fog and darkness.

我必须用一只手握住控制杆，这样我才能用另一只手发送信息……” “在雾气和黑暗中我什么也看不见。

I had no idea as to how badly our ship had been wounded or how long she might remain afloat.

我不知道我们的船受伤有多严重，也不知道她还能漂浮多久。

HAAS: Suddenly the sea is is pouring in uh, far faster than any of the ship's pumps can handle, and one of the engineers heroically turned on what was called an injector pump which actually helped to flood the boilers so that they wouldn't explode.

哈斯：突然，海水涌入，呃，速度远远超过了船上任何泵的处理速度，其中一位工程师英勇地打开了所谓的喷射泵，这实际上有助于淹没锅炉，以免它们爆炸。

So they literally had a matter of minutes before they were driven from their places.

所以他们实际上只有几分钟的时间才被赶出原来的地方。

NARRATOR: By the time they evacuated the engine room, the "Republic" was sinking at the rate of a foot per hour.

旁白：当他们撤离机舱时，“共和国”号正在以每小时一英尺的速度下沉。

But the brunt of the impact was taken decks above by the first class staterooms, on the saloon deck.

但首当其冲的是上面甲板上的沙龙甲板上的头等舱。

"I heard a dreadful crash," said Eugene Lynch, "and a tremendous shock.

“我听到了可怕的撞击声，”尤金·林奇说，“还有巨大的震动。

Some huge object was tearing the room to pieces.

某个巨大的物体正在将房间撕成碎片。

It pushed broken timbers down on me that pinned me fast.

它把断木推倒在我身上，将我牢牢地钉住。

I heard one scream from my wife.

我听到妻子发出一声尖叫。

'My God, Mary!' I shouted.

“天啊，玛丽！”我喊道。

There was no response." HAAS: You now have approximately seven hundred people, most of whom have been asleep suddenly awakened by the jar of the collision.

没有任何回应。”哈斯：你们现在大约有七百人，其中大多数人都在熟睡中，突然被碰撞的罐子惊醒。

They step out into the corridor, the friendly steward, isn't there, the lights are out, you can't ring for the steward to ask what the problem is.

他们走到走廊上，友善的管家不在，灯灭了，你不能按铃叫管家问问题出在哪里。

GEORGE PERCY, SON: There were no lights.

儿子乔治·珀西：没有灯。

And you can imagine how traumatic that was for everybody including a ten-year-old child.

你可以想象这对每个人（包括一个十岁的孩子）来说是多么的痛苦。

Henry was terrified, her brother, but she was very calm throughout the whole thing.

她的哥哥亨利很害怕，但整个过程中她都很平静。

HALLIE DAVIS voice: "In about five minutes a man in charge of the staterooms came with a candle, and we dressed hurriedly, and all went on deck.

哈莉·戴维斯的声音：“大约五分钟后，负责客舱的人拿着一支蜡烛来了，我们赶紧穿好衣服，然后所有人都上了甲板。

This was the last we ever saw of our staterooms, our baggage and my Teddy Bear.

这是我们最后一次看到我们的客舱、行李和泰迪熊。

I was very fond of my Teddy." NARRATOR: Two decks below was the journalist James Connolly.

我非常喜欢我的泰迪。”旁白：下面两层甲板是记者詹姆斯·康诺利。

JAMES CONNOLLY voice: "The noise of the bump came on our side of the ship.

詹姆斯·康诺利的声音：“撞击的声音是从我们这边的船传来的。

I hesitated between a black topcoat and a tan raincoat.

我在黑色大衣和棕褐色雨衣之间犹豫不决。

I decided on the raincoat-- it would be foggy and greasy around the deck.

我决定穿雨衣——甲板周围会起雾而且油腻。

I stuffed my notebooks into a pocket and hurried up the grand staircase." "I could barely make out the rail stanchions and noticed six, maybe seven staterooms lay in ruins...

我把笔记本塞进口袋，匆匆走上大楼梯。” “我几乎看不清铁路支柱，并注意到六间、也许七间客舱已成废墟......

My friends, the Lynches were berthed in one of those..." "Passengers were coming running, women mostly, and most of them in scant clothing.

我的朋友们，林奇夫妇就停泊在其中一艘……” “乘客们跑过来，其中大部分是女性，而且大多数人都衣衫褴褛。

Several spied me standing there and asked 'What's happened?

有几个人发现我站在那里，问我‘发生了什么事？

What's happened?

发生什么事了？

To which I had one answer: 'Nothing to worry about.

对此我只有一个答案：“没什么可担心的。”

Everything's going to be all right." HALLIE DAVIS voice: "One woman dressed herself before everyone on deck, while her French maid stood by and looked on." "Several men felt themselves lucky to have a woman's petticoat around their shoulders and a few women did not hesitate to don trousers and men's shoes." NARRATOR: Jack Binns was beginning to realize the fate of two ships and 1500 people lay in his hands.

一切都会好起来的。”哈莉·戴维斯的声音：“一名妇女在甲板上的所有人面前穿好衣服，而她的法国女仆站在旁边看着。” “一些男人觉得自己很幸运，肩上有一件女人的衬裙，而一些女人则毫不犹豫地穿上了裤子和男鞋。”旁白：杰克·宾斯开始意识到两艘船和 1500 人的命运掌握在他手中。

As he struggled with his sending key, the ship's crew tried to maintain order on deck.

当他费力地使用发送键时，船员们试图维持甲板上的秩序。

They brought up steaming coffee, and sandwiches.

他们带来了热气腾腾的咖啡和三明治。

Some of the stewards brought up whiskey and drinks were served.

一些乘务员端上来了威士忌和饮料。

Forty minutes after the crash, Captain Sealby sought to reassure the nervous passengers.

事故发生四十分钟后，西尔比机长试图安抚紧张的乘客。

"i want to advise you," he said, "the steamer has been injured in a collision.

“我想告诉你，”他说，“轮船在一次碰撞中受伤了。

We are in no immediate danger, but prudence dictates that you be transferred to the vessel which struck us." HAAS: And then he makes a rather classic statement, he says remember, it is women and children first, then the first cabin passengers, and then all the others.

我们没有立即面临危险，但出于谨慎考虑，我们必须将你们转移到袭击我们的船只上。” 哈斯：然后他做了一个相当经典的声明，他说记住，首先是妇女和儿童，然后是第一批客舱乘客，然后是所有其他人。

Uh so you actually have class distinction being followed very rigidly on the "Republic" NARRATOR: "It will take some time," sealby said, "and I expect that you will be cool and not excited, take your time in getting into the lifeboats.

嗯，所以实际上，“共和国”旁白严格遵循阶级区别：“这需要一些时间，”西尔比说，“我希望你会冷静而不是兴奋，慢慢地进入救生艇。

The crew will be the last to leave this ship." HAAS: What now begins is a whole series of of ferryings from the, the "Republic" to the "Florida" which has luckily come back into view NARRATOR: There had been no word from the "Florida" since the crash.

船员们将是最后离开这艘船的。” 哈斯：现在开始的是从“共和国”号到“佛罗里达”号的一系列渡轮，幸运的是，“佛罗里达”号已经回到了视野中。 旁白：自坠机以来，“佛罗里达”号上没有任何消息。

The impact with the "Republic" had crushed her bow like a broken nose, killing 3 of her crew in an instant.

与“共和国”号的撞击像折断鼻子一样压碎了她的船头，瞬间杀死了她的 3 名船员。

She was holding water better than the "Republic", but her passengers were threatening to riot.

她比“共和国”号更能控制住水，但她的乘客却威胁要骚乱。

FRED SCHWERIN, CAPT.

弗雷德·施未林，上尉

RUSPINI'S GRANDSON: The passengers on board the "Florida" were not able to cope with this major disaster that's now at hand coming on top of uh what they'd already experienced in the earthquake.

鲁斯皮尼的孙子：“佛罗里达”号上的乘客无法应对这场在地震中已经经历过的灾难之后又即将到来的重大灾难。

And panicked.

并惊慌失措。

Captain Ruspini was obliged to break out arms and to use extremely forceful measures uh to maintain order.

鲁斯皮尼上尉不得不掏出武器，使用极其强力的措施呃来维持秩序。

NARRATOR: It was now 7:15 on saturday, an hour and a half after the collision.

旁白：现在是周六 7 点 15 分，也就是碰撞事件发生一个半小时后。

Working in the dark, Binns was listening to see if other ships might have heard Jack Irwin's call from Siasconsett.

宾斯在黑暗中工作，监听其他船只是否听到了杰克·欧文从西亚斯康塞特发出的呼叫。

Irwin had been trying all morning to guide other ships to the stricken vessel.

欧文整个上午都在努力引导其他船只前往失事船只。

Of the seven ships he had reached, the closest to the "Republic" was the "Baltic", 90 miles away.

他到达的七艘船中，距离“共和国”号最近的是“波罗的海”号，距离九十英里。

She headed straight for the sinking ship.

她直奔那艘正在下沉的船而去。

2 hours later, the "Baltic" was within range of Binns.

2小时后，“波罗的海”号进入宾斯的射程范围内。

He sent another message to Siasconsett, "i'm on the job," he said, "but the ship is sinking faster." UTERMOHLEN : This was overheard by the wireless man in the "Baltic" who said, "Don't worry old man, we're bursting our boilers to get to you." BINNS FIGURED THE "BALTIC" WOULD ARRIVE BY 11 THAT MORNING, IF THEY WERE LUCKY...

他又向西亚斯康塞特发送了另一条消息，“我正在工作，”他说，“但船下沉的速度更快。”乌特莫伦：“波罗的海”的无线电员无意中听到了这一消息，他说：“别担心，老兄，我们正在爆破锅炉来找你。”宾斯预计“波罗的海”号将于当天上午 11 点抵达，如果幸运的话……

BINNS voice: "The cold was intense, chilling me through and through.

宾斯的声音：“天气很冷，让我浑身发冷。

I could barely feel my hands, and finally had to put on gloves.

我几乎感觉不到自己的手，最后不得不戴上手套。

My steward had succeeded in scrounging a bottle of Scotch whiskey.

我的管家成功地搜到了一瓶苏格兰威士忌。

I do not think I ever tasted anything so refreshing in my life.

我想我一生中从未尝过如此清爽的东西。

Throughout the rest of the day I slowly sipped that whisky a few drops at a time.

在这一天剩下的时间里，我慢慢地喝着威士忌，一次几滴。

NARRATOR: At daybreak, the transfer to the "Florida" began.

旁白：黎明时分，向“佛罗里达”号的转移开始了。

SODI : I think that my mother's reaction to what has to have been panic, chaos, all of this drama mixed together, my mother seemed to just be fascinated and just almost taking it in as though it were a movie.

SODI：我认为我母亲对这一切的反应一定是恐慌、混乱，所有这些戏剧性的东西混合在一起，我母亲似乎只是着迷，几乎把它当作一部电影一样看。

NARRATOR: With air and sea temperatures hovering near freezing, passengers began boarding the lifeboats.

旁白：随着气温和海水温度接近冰点，乘客开始登上救生艇。

A critically injured Eugene Lynch was lowered by stretcher.

伤势严重的尤金·林奇被担架抬下。

Binns was meant to leave with the rest of the crew, but insisted on staying behind with Captain Sealby and a handful of officers.

宾斯本打算与其他船员一起离开，但他坚持与西尔比船长和几名军官留在后面。

Also staying behind was Father John Norris, who had taken it upon himself to search for any remaining passengers.

约翰·诺里斯神父也留下来，他亲自负责寻找剩余的乘客。

When he reached the point of impact near the staterooms on the saloon deck, he paused...

当他到达沙龙甲板客舱附近的撞击点时，他停了下来……

> MOONEY: Father Norris realized that Mooney had to be somewhere behind the couch, and with tremendous effort, he cleared the way to get to W.J.

> 穆尼：诺里斯神父意识到穆尼一定在沙发后面的某个地方，他费了很大的劲才清理出通往 W.J. 的道路。

Reports say that W.J.

报道称，W.J.

was terribly mutilated.

被严重肢解。

Ah some reports said that he was partially dismembered.

啊有些报道说他被部分肢解了。

In any event W.J.

无论如何，W.J.

Mooney was still alive when Father Norris got to him.

当诺里斯神父找到穆尼时，他还活着。

NARRATOR: "I had found Mr. Mooney in a frightful condition, "Norris wrote.

旁白：“我发现穆尼先生的情况非常糟糕，”诺里斯写道。

"I then reached Mrs. Lynch and ministered to her.

“然后我找到了林奇夫人并为她服务。

She seemed to be conscious.

她似乎还有意识。

Before I left them, both were dead." NARRATOR: By 11am, the "Republic" was listing badly.

在我离开他们之前，他们俩都死了。”旁白：到上午11点，“共和国”的上市情况很糟糕。

Binns knew the "Baltic" had to be close, and again relayed the "Republic's" coordinates to the "Baltic's" operator, Henry Tattersall.

宾斯知道“波罗的海”号必须很近，并再次将“共和国”号的坐标转发给“波罗的海”号操作员亨利·塔特萨尔。

But Tattersall wasn't the only one listening.

但塔特索尔并不是唯一一个在听的人。

All along the east coast, young amateurs tuned in to the drama unfolding out at sea.

在整个东海岸，年轻的业余爱好者都在收看海上上演的戏剧。

They were soon joined by curious reporters.

很快，好奇的记者也加入了他们的行列。

As the news spread across the country, Siasconsett was flooded with inquiries, jamming the air to the point where Binns and Tattersall could barely hear each other.

随着消息传遍全国，西亚斯康塞特收到了如潮水般的询问，空气中弥漫着宾斯和塔特萨尔几乎听不到对方声音的声音。

Throughout the afternoon, Binns relayed the "Republic's" changing coordinates to the "Baltic" , somewhere out in the fog.

整个下午，宾斯将“共和国”号不断变化的坐标转发到雾中某处的“波罗的海”号。

By 4 pm, Tattersall's signal strength covinced Binns the "Baltic" was very close, but in which direction?

下午 4 点，塔特索尔的信号强度让宾斯确信“波罗的海”号已经非常接近了，但朝哪个方向呢？

MAXTONE-GRAHAM: Wireless is a long-range tool that you could use if you were in clear weather.

MAXTONE-GRAHAM：无线是一种远程工具，如果天气晴朗，您可以使用它。

You can find your position and you can communicate that position to another vessel--but you can't do that in thick fog, where you can't take a sighting, where you're dealing with two vessels moving through this thick pea soup, trying to find each other, and not finding each other with a crunch.

你可以找到你的位置，并且可以将该位置传达给另一艘船——但你不能在浓雾中做到这一点，在那里你无法目击，你要面对两艘在这浓浓的豌豆汤中移动的船只，试图找到彼此，但嘎吱一声却找不到彼此。

So they used to use what were called bombs, explosives, that were set off, to communicate position.

所以他们过去常常使用所谓的炸弹、炸药来引爆位置来传达位置。

BINNS voice: "'Baltic', we can hear a bomb to the West of us.

BINNS 的声音：“‘波罗的海’，我们可以听到我们西边有炸弹的声音。

Is it you?

是你吗？

"'Baltic'.

“‘波罗的海’。

Steer northeast at once.

立即转向东北。

"'Baltic'.

“‘波罗的海’。

There is a bomb bearing Northwest from me.

有一颗炸弹从我的方向向西北方向飞去。

Keep firing.

继续射击。

"'Baltic'.

“‘波罗的海’。

Can hear your whistle faintly.

隐约能听到你的口哨声。

You seem to be off our starboard bow.

你似乎离开了我们的右舷船头。

NARRATOR: With darkness falling, Binns began to lose hope.

旁白：随着夜幕降临，宾斯开始失去希望。

HAAS: Hour, after hour, after hour at the key Binns's hand was literally frozen in the position and he, he was just experiencing the greatest difficulty in, in just manipulating the key.

哈斯：在钥匙上一小时又一小时，宾斯的手实际上被冻结在这个位置上，他刚刚在操作钥匙时遇到了最大的困难。

And no food and no light and no heat, and Tattersall I think realized that, that the man at the other end of his signals was a, a man who was under a great deal of duress and he sent a lot of encouraging messages to, to keep Jack Binns going.

没有食物，没有光，没有暖气，我想塔特索尔意识到，信号另一端的那个人是一个处于巨大胁迫之下的人，他发送了很多鼓励信息，以让杰克·宾斯继续前进。

NARRATOR: "We traveled 200 miles in a zigzag course, "recalled the "Baltic's" captain, "and all within an area of 10 square miles." "As fast as I could get to one point of latitude and longitude, the "Republic" would have drifted to another.

旁白：“我们在曲折的航线上行驶了 200 英里，”“波罗的海”号船长回忆道，“所有区域都在 10 平方英里的范围内。” “只要我能尽快到达经纬度的一个点，‘共和国’就会漂移到另一个点。

" Finally, the "Republic" used up all its bombs.

” 最后，“共和国”用完了所有的炸弹。

The "Baltic" had only one left.

“波罗的海”号只剩下一艘了。

UTERMOHLEN : They were finally down to the last bomb and they had everybody, the remaining crew that is on the "Republic" arrayed in a circle facing outward in the hope that when the last bomb on the "Baltic" went off, somebody could figure out what direction the sound was coming from.

乌特莫伦：他们终于找到了最后一颗炸弹，他们让所有人，即“共和国”号上的剩余船员，面朝外排成一圈，希望当“波罗的海”号上的最后一颗炸弹爆炸时，有人能够弄清楚声音来自哪个方向。

And so everybody strained to listen to that for that last bomb.

所以每个人都竭尽全力聆听最后一颗炸弹的声音。

But the only one who heard it was Binnsy and Binnsy heard it he said because his ear was so strained to faint sounds coming through the telegraph and that he could actually tell where it was and what direction it was.

但唯一听到这个声音的人是宾西，他说宾西听到了，因为他的耳朵太紧张，听不到电报中传来的微弱声音，他实际上可以分辨出它在哪里以及它的方向。

BINNS voice: "I ran back to the wireless cabin and relayed the steering directions to the "Baltic".

BINNS 的声音：“我跑回无线舱，向‘波罗的海’号转发了转向指示。

The last letter had scarcely sputtered out by the wheezy spark when the "Baltic", faintly outlined in the mist by her blazing lights, loomed up.

最后一封信刚刚被呼呼的火花溅射出来，“波罗的海”号就在她的耀眼灯光下在薄雾中隐隐约约地出现了。

It was the grandest sight that tired eyes ever saw!

这是疲惫的眼睛所见过的最壮丽的景象！

" NARRATOR: The "Baltic" was a large ship ah with adequate cabin space, and more important public room space to ah embark these passengers on board.

” 旁白：“波罗的海”号是一艘大船啊，有足够的客舱空间，更重要的是公共房间空间啊，可以载这些乘客上船。

So they did, despite the fatigue and exhaustion of the passengers who had already achieved one mid-ocean transfer, to then ask them to submit to the same ordeal again.

因此，尽管已经完成一次大洋中转的乘客已经疲惫不堪，但他们还是要求他们再次接受同样的考验。

They started at midnight.

他们半夜出发。

It would take 83 boatloads to ferry the more than 1500 passengers and crew to the "Baltic".

需要83艘船才能将1500多名乘客和船员运送到“波罗的海”号。

Never had so many people been transferred on the high seas without a single loss of life.

从来没有这么多人被转移到公海而没有造成人员伤亡。

And they had done it twice.

他们已经做过两次了。

Only one passenger refused to go.

只有一名乘客拒绝前往。

Eugene Lynch badly injured, and suffering from the loss of his wife, said "if i've got to die," he said, "i would just as soon go down with the "Florida"." By sunday morning they were done.

身受重伤、失去妻子的尤金·林奇说：“如果我必须死，我会尽快与‘佛罗里达’号一起沉没。”到了周日早上，他们就完成了。

Two more rescue ships arrived and tried to tow the "Republic", but it was obvious to Binns the ship was lost.

另外两艘救援船抵达并试图拖曳“共和国”号，但宾斯显然发现这艘船已经失踪了。

BINNS voice: "I was just about to go to the bridge when 4th officer Morrow made his way toward me with Sealby's message: "I think we are going to abandon ship." NARRATOR: But sealby himself refused to go.

宾斯的声音：“我正要走到驾驶台上，四副莫罗向我走来，带着西尔比的信息：“我想我们要弃船了。” 旁白：但西尔比本人拒绝走。

He went down with the ship, only to bob up to the surface, miraculously unharmed.

他随船沉没，但又浮到水面，奇迹般地毫发无伤。

From the rescue boat Binns relayed his last message: "White Star line, New York: "Republic" sunk.

宾斯从救援船上转达了他的最后消息：“纽约白星线：“共和国”号沉没。

All hands saved.

所有双手都得救了。

Sealby." Narrator: Until now, newspapers had printed what few details of the disaster they could pick up from Siasconsett.

西尔比。”旁白：到目前为止，报纸只刊登了他们从西亚斯康塞特能了解到的有关这场灾难的极少细节。

Now they clamored for a first person account.

现在他们吵着要第一人称帐户。

As the "Baltic" entered New York harbor, James Connolly had just what they wanted.

当“波罗的海”号进入纽约港时，詹姆斯·康诺利得到了他们想要的东西。

CONNOLLY voice: "A whistle came from a steamer and a voice hailed to ask if a James B.

康诺利的声音：“一艘汽船传来汽笛声，一个声音询问詹姆斯·B.

Connolly was aboard.

康诺利在船上。

The voice said, "I'm Smith, of the New York Herald." I wrapped my thousand word dispatch in tarpaulin and hove it overboard.

那声音说：“我是《纽约先驱报》的史密斯。”我用防水布包裹了千字快报，然后把它扔到了船外。

It led a special edition of the Herald, in bold type on the front page." Having learned of the drama in the sunday papers, thousands came out to greet the "Baltic".

它领导了《先驱报》的特刊，在头版以粗体字体显示。”在周日报纸上得知这一戏剧性事件后，数千人出来迎接“波罗的海”号。

Like many relatives of those on board the "Republic", john Mooney Jr, caught a train after seeing an early newspaper report.

和“共和国”号上乘客的许多亲属一样，小约翰·穆尼在看到早期报纸的报道后赶上了火车。

Only at the pier did he and the Lynches' relatives learn the full story.

直到在码头，他和林奇夫妇的亲属才得知整个故事。

MOONEY: My father was gratified, joyous that there were survivors, but a very heavy heart that um W.J.

穆尼：我父亲对幸存者感到高兴和高兴，但心情非常沉重。

uh lost his life as did Mrs. Lynch buried at sea.

呃，他像林奇夫人一样被海葬了。

And uh there was not a great deal that John Mooney could do about a situation as final as that.

对于这样的最终情况，约翰·穆尼也无能为力。

NARRATOR: As one New York paper reported, it was the only grief to be noticed.

旁白：正如纽约的一份报纸报道的那样，这是唯一值得注意的悲伤。

No one came sunday afternoon to greet the "Florida".

周日下午没有人来迎接“佛罗里达”号。

Four hours after she arrived, shipwrights discovered the three bodies that had been crushed in the initial collision.

她到达四小时后，造船工人发现了在最初的碰撞中被压碎的三具尸体。

Among them, was Salvatore D'Amico, the boy who had begged his way aboard.

其中就有萨尔瓦托·达米科，那个乞讨上船的男孩。

Near death, Eugene Lynch was carried from the "Florida".

濒临死亡的尤金·林奇被从“佛罗里达”号上抬了出来。

He had two last requests: a brandy, and that a medal be presented to the ship's wireless operator.

他最后有两个请求：一杯白兰地，以及向船上的无线电操作员颁发一枚奖章。

America had discovered a new hero, and his name was Jack Binns.

美国发现了一位新英雄，他的名字叫杰克·宾斯。

UTERMOHLEN : The crowds were incredible.

UTERMOHLEN：人群令人难以置信。

He had a ticker tape parade, and he was astonished, frightened in a way by this because for him he'd simply done his duty.

他进行了一场收报机游行，他对此感到惊讶，在某种程度上感到害怕，因为对他来说，他只是尽了自己的职责。

BINNS BECAME THE STUFF OF LEGEND, AND LYRICS.

宾斯成为传奇和歌词的素材。

UTERMOHLEN: "There's a hole in the side of the ship, Jack Binns, the captain above him cried.

乌特莫伦：“船的一侧有一个洞，杰克·宾斯，上面的船长喊道。

Give a message at once to the wandering winds.

立即向流浪的风传达信息。

Ay, ay sir, Jack Binns replied.

是的，是的，先生，杰克·宾斯回答道。

The captain was brave but braver was he who sat in his room with his hand on the key...and steadily sounded his CQD to people there somewhere outside.

船长很勇敢，但更勇敢的是他坐在自己的房间里，手放在钥匙上……并不断地向外面某个地方的人们发出他的 CQD 声音。

CHORUS: "Jack Binns, Jack Binns, bravest of all the crew, Jack Binns, Jack Binns, the world loves and honors you!" NARRATOR: He was sought out for autographs, offered contracts to perform Vaudeville, even swarmed by chorus girls at the Hippodrome.

合唱：“杰克·宾斯，杰克·宾斯，所有船员中最勇敢的人，杰克·宾斯，杰克·宾斯，全世界都爱你并尊敬你！”旁白：有人向他索要签名，有人向他提供杂耍表演合同，甚至在竞技场里还围满了合唱团女孩。

DOUGLAS: He was offered all kinds of ways to profit from his heroism.

道格拉斯：他被提供了各种方法来从他的英雄主义中获利。

He didn't want to do that.

他不想那样做。

NARRATOR: Instead, he watched as his story was turned into cheap entertainment by the Vitagraph Movie Company.

旁白：相反，他眼睁睁地看着自己的故事被维塔格拉夫电影公司变成了廉价的娱乐节目。

UTERMOHLEN: It was a very short film which purported to show him on the sending key and this upset him terribly NARRATOR: Binns had hoped to use his celebrity to champion wireless as an instrument of safety.

乌特莫伦：这是一部非常短的电影，旨在向他展示发送密钥，这让他非常不安。 旁白：宾斯曾希望利用他的名人来支持无线作为一种安全工具。

He even testified before congress on behalf of a bill to mandate wireless coverage.

他甚至代表一项强制无线覆盖的法案在国会作证。

Congress hailed Binns' bravery, but, he felt, ignored his testimony.

国会赞扬宾斯的勇敢，但他认为，忽视了他的证词。

To become a caricature for Vitagraph, Binns decided, was the last straw.

宾斯认为，成为 Vitagraph 的漫画是压垮他的最后一根稻草。

UTERMOHLEN: And so he sued Vitagraph and won the suit for invasion of privacy.

UTERMOHLEN：因此他起诉了 Vitagraph，并以侵犯隐私为由赢得了诉讼。

NARRATOR: He returned to england to await his next posting.

旁白：他返回英国等待下一次任职。

The public, he felt, had missed the point.

他认为，公众没有抓住重点。

MAXTONE-GRAHAM: To those who read about it in the press, to those who found there was almost no loss of life at all apart from the collision.

MAXTONE-GRAHAM：致那些在媒体上读到此事的人，致那些发现除了碰撞之外几乎没有人员伤亡的人。

Ah it seemed then that this was a clean surgical rescue with none of the unpleasant death toll that would have tarnished.

啊，当时看来，这是一次干净的外科手术救援，没有任何令人不快的死亡人数会玷污。

So any urgency or expediency Congress felt for instance to implement improvement in radio watch, to have people on duty on radio around the clock ah was stalled because the "Republic" made it seem too easy.

因此，国会感到的任何紧迫性或权宜之计，例如改进无线电监视，让人们全天候值班，都被搁置了，因为“共和国”让它看起来太容易了。

NARRATOR: The rescue had produced a hero, but it would take a disaster to produce real change.

旁白：救援产生了英雄，但只有一场灾难才能带来真正的改变。

In april 1912, Jack Binns was assigned the wireless post on another White Star liner, the "Titanic".

1912 年 4 月，杰克·宾斯 (Jack Binns) 被指派担任另一艘白星邮轮“泰坦尼克号”上的无线电哨所。

But personal circumstances intervened--he had fallen in love.

但个人情况介入了——他坠入爱河。

More than 1,500 lives were lost on "Titanic", the same number that 3 years earlier, Jack Binns had helped to save.

“泰坦尼克号”造成 1,500 多人丧生，与 3 年前杰克·宾斯 (Jack Binns) 帮助拯救的人数相同。