Paul Amirault

On the morning of February 3, a little before noon, the wireless station at Cape Hatteras, NC overheard a frantic transmission from the Kent

The story of Theodore Haubner and the Arapahoe, the first American ship to be rescued at sea by a SOS wireless distress call.

This is the story of the first use of the SOS distress call in a sea disaster. And it didn't involve Titanic!