Description: The history of the North Eastern School of Wireless Telegraphy who trained sea going Radio Officers for the Merchant Navy
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Founded in 1911 to train Radio Officers for the Merchant Marine affectionally known as ‘Sparks’.
During that time, thousands of men (and a small number of women) were trained as Radio Officers in Britain and Ireland and sailed under the Red Ensign. Many of them were trained by the NESWT
The main source of emergency assistance in the oceans has always been the nearest deep-sea ship to your own. Radio Officers kept watch on the international distress frequency in order to render assistance to ships in trouble. When their own ship was in distress, they stayed at the morse key until assistance was at hand, (and not infrequently went down with their ship).