Maritime call sign
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Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats. All radio transmissions must be individually identified by the call sign. Merchant and naval vessels are assigned
USS Blue Ridge's callsign, "NQHS", is painted on her superstructure
USCGC Eagle displays her call sign, "NRCB", using signal flags.
Soviet nuclear Icebreaker Arktika with call sign UKTY
RMS Carpathia
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RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by C. S. Swan & Hunter in their shipyard in Wallsend, England.
Maritime call sign
…call sign MWL). Its distress call CQD CQD CQD CQD CQD CQD DE MGY MGY MGY MGY MGY MGY POSITION 41.44 N 50.24 W would be answered by a station aboard the RMS Carpathia (call sign MPA). Later that same year, an international conference standardised radio call signs so that the first two letters would uniquely identify…
RMS Carpathia under way
Carpathia being drydocked in Red Hook, New York
Captain Arthur Rostron. Under his command, Carpathia responded to Titanic's distress call and rescued survivors.
A medal awarded to a Carpathia crew member for the rescue of Titanic survivors