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Happy 100th birthday, SOS There was some early success for the new system a year later when the Cunard liner the SS Slavonia was stricken off the Azores She sent out an SOS and not a single life was lost Even so, not everybody was convinced instantly, and it took the tragedy of the Titanic to reveal just how vital a universal system was After the collision in April 1912, the ship_s radio operators sent out both the old CQD and the new SOS signals, but some ships in the area ignored both, thinking that they were having a party
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