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Distress Traffic Priority Rule

Great Britain · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1912Date range
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Chronological records

1912

Henry Babington Smith5 July 1912

London · Exploration / Exploration and Discovery

Oversees adoption of rules giving distress communications priority over ordinary radiotelegraph traffic.

Names involved

Henry Babington Smith

Provenance

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