Operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code
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Telegrapher, dated before 1927 from the Tropenmuseum collection
A telegraphist (British English), telegrapher (American English), or telegraph operator is an operator who uses a telegraph key to send and receive the Morse code in order to communicate by land lines or radio.
During the First World War the Royal Navy enlisted many volunteers as radio telegraphists. Telegraphists were indispensable at sea in the early days of wireless telegraphy, and many young men were called to sea as professional radiotelegraph operators who were always accorded high-paying officer status at sea. Subsequent to the Titanic disaster and the Radio Act of 1912, the International Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) conventions established the 500kHz maritime distress frequency monitoring and mandated that all passenger-carrying ships carry licensed radio telegraph operators.[1]
^International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, London, 10th June, 1948(PDF), London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, January 1953, p. 169, archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015, retrieved 26 January 2018
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1991 The White Viking Embla 1991 The Polar Bear King Princess 1993 The Telegraphist Pernille 1996 Jerusalem Gertrud 1997 Insomnia Ane 1999 The 13th Warrior...
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